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Tiverton Community Food Drive, Soup Kitchen & Homelessness Awareness Sleep Over

Monday, January 27, and continuing through Monday, February 3, Amicable Congregational Church, 3736 Main Road in Tiverton will sponsor a town wide food drive to support Tiverton's food pantires, East Bay Community Action Program and Old Stone Food Pantry. Due to increased prices in fuel, there is an even greater demand on food pantries throughout the state this winter.Area residents may drop off non-perishable food items all week at Amicable, Saints Christopher & Theresa's Churches, Stone Bridge branch of BankNewport, Gray’s Ice Cream, and the Tiverton public libraries.In conjunction with the town wide food drive, Amicable will host a simulated soup kitchen as its monthly dinner and a homelessness awareness sleep over on Saturday, February 1st to help raise awareness of the plight of the homeless in our state and throughout the world.Beginning at 6:00 PM, soup, salad beverages and dessert will be served in Amicable’s dining room.The public is welcome to attend.Free will donations will be accepted at the door.Proceeds from this dinner will benefit Amicable’s operating budget. Amicable Church’s youth group and their chaperones will be served dinner before spending the night out of doors.Amicable’s front lawn becomes “box city” with the youth setting up refrigerator boxes as temporary shelter.We have asked the youth to find sponsors for their overnight, with the funds raised going to Crossroads Rhode Island, the only 24-hour, seven-day-a-week drop in shelter for Rhode Island’s homeless.All are welcome to attend the “soup kitchen” dinner and visit us on this night. Please contact the church office at 624-4611 for more information on becoming a drop off location for the food drive, soup kitchen details, or to sponsor a youth for the sleepover.Donations may also be sent directly to Crossroads Rhode Island or the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.This is a chance for the greater Tiverton community to come together and offer support and hope to those in our state who are in need.

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