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Do you want to help Loaves & Fishes, but you are not sure what we need? Would you like to purchase an item and have your company name placed on a sponsor plate? Here is a list of items that Loaves & Fishes needs to purchase in the next six months:

•    $3,000 for a new weatherized roll up door for our catering kitchen. PG&E has donated $2,000 towards the $5,000 cost of this project. This new door benefits to LFCC by keeping cold air out during the winter months and cool air in during the summer months, thereby reducing our energy costs.
•    $ 9,000 for a new water heater, replacing our ten-year-old unit that is deteriorating.
•    $ 3,600 for an ice machine for the kitchen. The current unit was beyond repair and disposed of.
•    $ 5,200 for tables and chairs in the new Pittsburg Free Dining Room.
•    $ 5,500 for various small-wares items for the new Pittsburg Free Dining Room, including carts, trays, cups, mats, trash cans, and kitchen equipment.

On July 1st Loaves & Fishes of Contra Costa (LFCC) will expand its mission once again as we add a fifth dining room located in Pittsburg, CA. This joint partnership between Saint Vincent de Paul (SVdP) and LFCC has produced a dining room built to our specifications to feed our clientele. In order to open the dining room, SVdP and LFCC determined they needed to raise $275,000. To date we have jointly raised $205,026.

Won’t you join us now to help us reach our goal? We need to raise $69,974 reach our goal by July 31. The following items are needed to complete the job:

•    $17,974 for dining room equipment and furnishings
•    $43,730 for first year operational costs, and
•    $8,270 for our first year contributions to a maintenance & repair fund

It's not to late to become our angel by helping us meet our expectations. Please donate specifically to the Pittsburg Free Dining Room fund by clicking the donate now button.

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When hunger shows its face in a community, Loaves & Fishes studies the area to see if there is a need for a dining room.

Eighteen months ago we started conversations with Saint Vincent de Paul’s about the needs of the hungry in Pittsburg. These talks led to a partnership, resulting in a privately funded, 2,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art dining room adjacent to Saint Vincent de Paul’s Thrift Store.

For the Community Baptist Church, it all began about thirteen months ago when our operation manager, Carol Babcock, attended an Interfaith Council meeting and was introduced to two ladies from the Community Baptist Church in Bay Point, CA. Their conversation centered on the churches desire to feed a growing hungry population in Bay Point.

Did you know that Loaves & Fishes have made two long-term changes to sites in the Oakley and Antioch areas? In Oakley we have moved from Saint Anthony’s Church on O’Hara Avenue to the Redman-Pocahontas Hall at 1403 Main Street next to the Live Oak Church. Our new location is accessible on the Tri-Delta Transit Route 383 Oakley Loop.