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Food Pantry Needs
The Food Pantry puts together bags that are in the foyer of the town office for anyone to pick up who needs it.
Current Requests from the Food Pantry:
Instant Mac & Cheese
Individual size microwave Chef Boy R Dee
Single serving microwave soup
Shelf stable milk (individual cartons)
Juice boxes
Individual size cereal
Single serve wrapped crackers
Granola bars
Fruit pouches or applesauce cups
Meat pouches - Tuna or Chicken
Shelf stable yogurt – GoGo Yogurt
Items for the Foyer bags:
Regular size jars of peanut butter
Regular size jars of jam/jelly
Jiffy mixes or the Betty Crocker pouch mixes muffins or biscuits, bread mixes
Cans of Meat Chicken or Tuna (big and small)
Juices/juice boxes
Boxes of crackers
Snack items
Mashed potato pouches
Rice pouches
Cans of soup
Cans of baked beans
Cans of chili
Cans of fruit (packed in juice, not sweetened)
Spaghetti – 1-pound boxes
Pasta – 1-pound boxes
Supplies:
Women’s Depends (size large)
Individually wrapped toilet paper
Gluten free items
Small laundry soap bottles
Please deliver items to the Sunapee Town Office.
In lieu of cash, grocery cards in $20-$25 denominations are greatly appreciated! They will be used to help supplement the dry goods in the Food Pantry with eggs, milk, produce, etc.
Thanks so much for the continued community support each month and your generosity!
Our mission is to know Christ, grow in Christ, and show the love of Christ within our church, our community, and the world through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Our Beginning
In May 1853, Sunapee became a Methodist Episcopal Station, an official congregation. The Reverend Joseph D. Emerson was sent to Sunapee by the New Hampshire Conference. In that first year 40 people joined the church. In October 1856 a new church building was dedicated and by 1862 the congregation numbered 80 souls and in 1869 a bell was set in place.
On June 10, 1871, a fire burned the church and several homes and businesses. Services were held at the North Meeting House or Union Church at the intersection of Lower Main Street and North Road. A new site, across the road from the burnt-out church, was given for a new church by John Smith. The finished building was dedicated in June 1874.
Over the years several renovations were made, the most recent a two-story addition to the back of the church which added an elevator, stair, accessible restrooms and offices and meeting rooms.
Chalmers, Barbara Bache (2018). Community Methodist Church. Sunapee’s Historic Buildings & Places, Volume One, 178.