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RDG Art Studio Open Studio Day, February 4, 2012

13 Jan 13

Saturday, February 4th

10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

to benefit the DMARC Food Pantry Network

location: RDG Dahlquist Art Studio, 316 SW 5th Street, Des Moines

For more information, click here to be routed to our food-related website, MovetheFood.

DMARC Interfaith Youth Program

11 Jan 12

 

Community of Interfaith Youth (CITY)

 

In the CITY (Community of Interfaith Youth) we engage youth of different religious backgrounds to use their religious difference as an opportunity to be compassionate and serve one another and the greater community in which they live. CITY, a DMARC program, will meet once per month to build relationships among youth of different religions backgrounds and to serve. The program began November 10.

 

For a program flyer to download and post, click here.

 

 

Next meeting: 6:15-8:15 p.m., February 9, 2012 at Grace Methodist Church, 3700 Cottage Grove Ave (parking off of 38th Street), Des Moines, Iowa      

 

Activity: The CItY group will team up with the Youth gropu KWAKers (kids with a Kause) to prepare 12 casseroles for Hope Ministries, CItY's first multi-faith service project!

 

 

For Ages 14-18

-       Download enrollment form here 

 

Parents are welcome to attend the first meeting. Please contact Colin.e.Faux@gmail.com for additional information.

 

 

 

Get your 2012 Calendar Here

09 Jan 12

Get your 2012 Center for Social Ministry calendar now! DMARC gets 20% of the proceeds from calendars ordered through our office. Check out the SALE! For more information, click here.

. . .for all you did. . .

27 Dec 11

Media Release :: Food Pantry Network Serving Record Number of Families

10 Oct 11

    

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

 

Media Contact: Sarai Rice, DMARC executive director, sarai@dmreligious.org, (515) 277-6969

 

DMARC FOOD PANTRY NETWORK SERVING RECORD NUMBER OF FAMILIES

 

DES MOINES, Iowa (Oct. 10, 2011) – The Des Moines Area Religious Council food pantry warehouse is being filled and emptied to the walls about twice each week, as the Council strives to meet growing needs for short-term food assistance in Polk County.

 

Even as record numbers of Iowans are receiving public food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), DMARC is finding it a challenge to keep its Food Pantry Network warehouse stocked with enough food. Each week, about 20,000 purchased and donated food items arrive at the warehouse and are repackaged and transported to 12 metro-area pantries to provide over 26,000 meals for about 1,800 people. 

 

For full release, click here.

The Food Pantry Network has a new look!

19 Jan 11

 

Thanks to a broad base of incredible donors and amazing volunteers, the Food Pantry Network has operated for about 40 years. Now it's time to also catalyze fresh generations and engage new constituencies to further support our shared vision for a day when everyone in Des Moines has enough to eat.

We will officially launch in March 2011, but you can still come on over to our new website and tell us what you think:  www.movethefood.org