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“I feel so much joy each time I sit down to create birthday greetings for our senior clients!  I clear the dining room table and bring out the supplies – cards, stickers, and pens.  I allocate about four hours to complete the cards for two weeks,” says Kate Wulf, a long-time volunteer at Loaves & Fishes.  Kate served as a Client…

Jen Koym didn’t imagine that her love of crafts and sewing would turn into managing an in-demand service to the community. But when COVID-19 arrived in Charlottesville, the need for protective face coverings in our community and other PPE for healthcare workers became an overnight desperate demand. Jen wasted no time creating kits for more…

The idea of growing and sharing produce is based on the credo of the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church: Faith, Formation, and Fruitfulness. This past spring, Pastor Lance King looked out his office window and saw empty fields and envisioned healthy crops growing there to feed local underserved people.  He knew one of his parishioners owned…