Shepherd Store

Christmas Break Tote

$55 per child

A Christmas break tote contains two weeks worth of kid-friendly food (breakfast, lunch and snacks) that can be prepared by a child. Includes: microwavable meals, breakfast items, juice boxes, fruit cups, cheese or peanut butter crackers, chips, fruit snacks, granola bars, pudding snacks.

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Lunch Pail

Lunch pail provides lunch or dinner for the kids who come to Shepherd Community Center for school or after school. We serve three meals a day at Shepherd, breakfast and lunch to 70 students, and dinner to 150 students.

One child
$15 per month

A class of 12 students
$180 per month

The entire after school program (150 students)
$2,250 per month

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Weekend Bags

Children in our neighborhood often only receive one meal a day at home. We help offset hunger on the weekends by distributing a small brown bag at the end of the week with breakfast and lunch items for Saturday and Sunday.

One child
$5 for a week

One child
$20 for a month

One child
$900 for a year

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Holiday Program and Dinner

$50-75 per family

At Thanksgiving and Christmas we have a special holiday service followed by a delicious holiday meal. This is a small way for us to show God’s love to our neighbors during the holiday season.

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Christmas Store

$40 per child

Shepherd Community provides an opportunity for parents to come “shop” for a Christmas toy and necessities like hats, gloves, and undergarments for their children the week before Christmas. This store is available to parents with children from infants to twelve-year-olds. The teens in our program receive a gift card or gift from their youth director.

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Health Clinic

$25 per visit

During the winter months, parents and children often experience colds and flu. We offer a free health clinic to those in our neighborhood. The cost to help support our clinic is $25 per patient.

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Transportation

$750 per month

Many of our neighbors walk to and from the grocery store, our center, and their place of employment. In the winter the cold hinders their ability to get around. We offer a shuttle to the grocery store to help ease this burden. We also shuttle our students to and from various activities and our after-school programs.

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Crisis Intervention

$200 per month

Stress and emotions can be escalated in the winter months and the holidays can be a hopeless time for families, adults, and teens on the near eastside. The use of unconventional heat sources in cold weather can lead to devastating fires. Shepherd Community Center helps with emergency clothing/furniture, an emergency food pantry, and a full-time counselor available during times of crisis.

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