Shared Bread

Shared Bread is an extension of our church that helps families, The disabled, and senior citizens that live within the Kent School District boundaries.

Our primary focus is offering financial help to stop evictions and to stop utilities (heat and lights) from being shut off. People are eligible for assistance once every 12 months. We usually help close to 600 individuals per year. We have volunteers on Mondays who schedule the interviews for the clients at church for the following Wednesdays. During the interviews, we can assist our clients with additional help for many of their various needs.

Shared Bread Corner

All year long, our Emergency Assistance Program has brought a piece of Christmas to those we have helped. Yes, we have helped keep families in their homes, power turned on for heating, cooking, and lights, and water flowing for baths, cooking, and consuming, but what you may not see is what we have offered with our financial help. HOPE.

We answer their hope that someone they do not know cares enough to try to help, that they don’t have to struggle alone, that they matter, and that they are enough.

Our program has helped many seniors on fixed income, our most underserved BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities, women-headed households, immigrants, and refugees. This is why Jesus said, “Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to me.”

We are on track to break another record for giving to our community thanks to the generosity of our congregation members and a couple of grants. On behalf of Pat, Rhonda, and myself, we wish you HOPE, PEACE, AND LOVE this Christmas Season. 

Your Shared Bread Team

Leslie, Pat, and Rhoda
Your Shared Bread Team