2020 Updates / Cancelations
Schedule of services during the health emergency with the coronavirus.
* The CCIA Food Pantry is committed to stay open during this time of national health emergency with coronavirus. We will maintain our normal open hours at both pantry locations until we are advised too close and stop all operations. We have changed the process in how we package and hand out food. We ask for your patience in this as we do our best to keep you our guest and volunteers safe.
* If you are experiencing any symptoms we ask that you consider the health of others and not visit the pantry. If you can designate someone to pick up food for you we will try our best to accommodate your need. A simple letter to the pantry designating someone to pick up food for you and then sign your name.
* The SAS Free Dental Program is closed at this time. We will update our website and maintain current information as changes are made. If you have any questions you may call, 585-394-7450 x-308.Thank you for your patience during this time.
Schedule of services during the health emergency with the coronavirus.
* The CCIA Food Pantry is committed to stay open during this time of national health emergency with coronavirus. We will maintain our normal open hours at both pantry locations until we are advised too close and stop all operations. We have changed the process in how we package and hand out food. We ask for your patience in this as we do our best to keep you our guest and volunteers safe.
* If you are experiencing any symptoms we ask that you consider the health of others and not visit the pantry. If you can designate someone to pick up food for you we will try our best to accommodate your need. A simple letter to the pantry designating someone to pick up food for you and then sign your name.
* The SAS Free Dental Program is closed at this time. We will update our website and maintain current information as changes are made. If you have any questions you may call, 585-394-7450 x-308.Thank you for your patience during this time.
SAS Award / Scroll down for CCIA Newsletters
Supply A Smile was recently awarded the 2019 Choose Health Ontario Award. We congratulate Pastor Joan and the SAS team of volunteers and the many professional that give of their time serving our community with dental care.
FREE SMILE DAY!
Free Smile Day: Spreading Free Smiles Across Ontario County.
“Supply A Smile”, “Gullo Dental” and Canandaigua Churches In Action are partnering once again to provide a day of free dental services to any Ontario County resident, 18years of age and older who has no dental insurance. The services offered are fillings, extractions and cleanings. Patients will be served on a first come, first served basis.
When and Where?
Gullo Dental
330 N. Main St.
Canandaigua, NY
SAS Free Smile Day 2020: Date coming in the Spring 2020
8 am- Noon, 1 PM- 4 PM.
What if more extensive dental care is needed?
Free Smile Day event is NOT able to provide all manner of dental care services. However, we recommend that patients requiring additional treatment, explore contact with “Supply A Smile”. Supply A Smile provides dental screenings on the FIRST SAT. of each month- Sept.- May at 9 AM the Canandaigua Primary School.
(For more information, contact, Joan Wood- Director of Supply A Smile-
supplyasmile@gmail.comor 585-376-2242 )
COMMUNITY GARDEN
In 2013 CCIA was approached by FOODLINK to expand their Community Garden efforts into Ontario County. This garden was sponsored by a grant that provided all the materials to construct 10 raised bed gardens. This grant also provided the topsoil, compost and plants for the garden. The name we have selected, “Goshen Gardens” is located at Zion Fellowship. Each year pantry families are encouraged to be a part of the community garden. It gives families the experience of having and caring for a garden while providing fresh produce through the harvest season.
Workdays are set aside to work together to help clean and prepare the raised beds for planting. After the risk is over for the last frost, a day will be set for planting. Once planted, the garden needs to be cared for. Families will be given a specific day during the week that they will be responsible for to come in and water the garden and weed as needed. Water and tools are provided for families to use.
This is a community garden project, and all families that participate will share in the produce during the harvest season. It won’t be long now before the gardening season begins. Know someone who would benefit from being part of the community garden? Have them call Pastor Jeff at 394-7450, x-311.
DRESS A GIRL…FIGHT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
What little girl doesn’t love getting new dresses? But for girls living in extreme poverty around the world, a new dress is something they can only dream of. Enter “Dress a Girl Around the World”, a program that provides simple but pretty dresses for girls in third world countries.
Sadly, in many countries, little girls have no value in the community and are treated worse than livestock. Any girl who looks as if she doesn’t belong to someone is a target for sex traffickers or other predators. That’s where Dress a Girl comes in. Dresses are made by people here in the US and 16 other countries. Each dress has a Dress a Girl label affixed to the front. The dresses are taken to third world countries by missionaries who distribute them in person. When a missionary meets a girl who is dressed in rags, she kneels down, prays for the girl and slips the dress on her explaining that God loves her and she is valuable. For many of these little girls, this may be the only dress she will own.
Joyce Mahoney and Nancy Bové are involved with the Dress a Girl (DAG) program in Canandaigua. Nancy became involved when Holy Redeemer church was looking for a ministry. She went to a DAG meeting in Brighton and thought it sounded like something they could do. Turns out, she was the only one in her group who could sew! Undaunted, she rounded up about 50 more volunteers. They met at Crosswinds to sew and donate the dresses to Crosswinds’ missionaries. That group eventually dwindled. Currently a group of around 6-12 dedicated people meet every 6 weeks at Good Shepherd Lutheran church to make dresses and dolls for girls. As Joyce says, “We always learn something new about sewing at the meetings. It’s very creative!”
The dresses themselves are simple. They are made of cotton or cotton blends, and each dress has a large pocket in the front. The group also makes dolls to fit in the pocket. The dresses are modest: the length is below the knees, not see-through or too light colored. The seamstresses are free to get creative with trim, buttons, or embroidery as long as the end product is easy to care for.
Last year, the group made 120 dresses and had over 400 dolls, although some of the dolls were donations of Beanie Babies. Dresses have been sent to 82 countries around the world. Dress a Girl also gives clothing to Indian Reservations in South Dakota and Arizona along with sending quilts and clothes to missions in Appalachia. In some cases, the group provides sewing machines to women, teaching them how to provide clothing for their families and communities and perhaps earn money in the process
If you would like to help with this ministry, they are always happy to welcome newcomers. As Nancy explains, “The group is open, anyone can come and help. If you can’t sew you can cut fabric or stuff dolls. We’ll find something for you to do. And we provide lunch!” The group meets on Saturdays from 10AM till 1PM. You can contact Good Shepherd (585-394-2760) for the next meeting date. Donations of fabric are always welcome. Just be sure the fabric is cotton, is not too thin, and has a print that would be appropriate for little girls in foreign countries.
With human trafficking becoming a bigger problem around the world, how amazing to think that something as simple as a new dress can make a difference. As Joyce said, “If our dresses save even one little girl, it is worth it!”
A RECIPE FOR BIRTHDAY FUN
Imagine that even planning a birthday for a family member is outside your budget-even the basics and how that must make you feel.
Another “ministry” through CCIA is creating “birthday bags”. Clients visiting the food pantries can select an already packed bag—filled with all the fixings.
Perhaps your Sunday School classes or another group might decide to make this an ongoing “mission project”. The creation of these gift bags will bring joy to both your group and to the family they touch.
Recipe For Fun
- A small gift bag—sturdy enough to hold the following items—extra fun is to decorate the outside of the bag!
- A box cake mix—any flavor
- Can of icing—your choice
- Pkg. of candles
- Festive dessert-sized plates
- Pkg. of napkins
- Balloons
- Optionals—other ways to decorate that fit in the bag
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