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Cornucopia Food Pantry
The Cornucopia Food Pantry provides food and other support to UNH students, staff, faculty and their families. No one is ever turned away. Last year, we provided about 120 food gift baskets to families and served about 250 people on a weekly and emergency basis. We typically serve about 3-5 families per week.
Cornucopia Food Pantry is open on Wednesday, 4-5:30pm, Friday, 12-5pm and by appointment. It is located on the ground floor in Christensen Hall. We are always looking for help and donations.
To volunteer, donate, or for more information, use our web form or visit the Cornucopia food pantry site for more information.
To request assistance, please fill out our basket request form.
Started in October 1997, Cornucopia is a partnership of the UNH Chaplains Association, the United Campus Ministry to UNH, the Office of Student Life, the UNH Partnership for Social Action, The UNH Department of Residential Life, and the UNH Department of Housing.
Holiday Food Baskets
Each year the Cornucopia Food Pantry gives out Thanksgiving, Winter, and Spring holiday food baskets to those in the area who are in need.
Every year various residence halls, departments, offices, businesses, churches and individuals donate baskets. If you would like to donate, use our online form, give us a call, or send us an email at Waysmeet. We will add you to the list and provide a list of the minimum qualifications for each basket.
If you would like a basket, or know someone who does, please also let us know by form or email.
Flames of Hope
The premise of the Flames of Hope program is a simple one: each of us can make a difference in the world through the use of our own unique gifts, talents, energy, enthusiasm and resources.
The Flames of Hope program seeks to bring healthy change to our communities and the world one person, one family and one situation at a time. We always work in partnership and collaboraiton with others, becase things get accomplished more quickly and effectively that way, but also because we are called to be "partners in service" and part of hopeful communities.
The folllowing are a few examples of how Flames of Hope can work:
- Contributing to the Flames of Hope Fund to help those in need
- Helping with our monthly Community Dinners
- Buying a bag or two of groceries every week for specific families
- Buying and donating a summer pool pass for one or more kids or families at the Durham/UNH outdoor pool
- Buying and donating tickets to athletic events for kids to attend UNH events.
- Matching folks who need vehicles with people who may want to donate them.
- Signing petitions, pledging support, and contributing money or other resources to help reunite kids with their families.
- Organizing one or more food baskets during holiday or special seasons for families in the community.
- Working with groups in other countries (e.g. Compas de Nicaragua) to support their grass roots work in building community.
- Outreach to the Forest Park and Babcock Communities on the UNH campus
You can make a difference. If you are interested in being a Flame of Hope, or would like more information, please contact the Waysmeet Center or e-mail Larry.Brickner-Wood@unh.edu.
City Reach
Join with college students from other schools in:
- Providing food and clothing to the homeless
- Having members of the local homeless community as tour guides and teachers
- Hearing the stories of the homeless
- Interacting and engaging with city activists, community workers & others on working with the homeless and struggling to change the conditions that lead to homelessness
Past trips have been based at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Boston Common. Students from other campuses in New England will join us. Registration is limited to 20 students, so please let us know early. The cost is $5.00 to help defray the costs of the program, food and transportation, but anyone who wants to come will be welcomed, regardless of ability to pay. This is a program of Ecclesia Ministries in Boston and is organized locally by the Waysmeet Center of the United Campus Ministry and the Catholic Student Center of St. Thomas More. Contact Larry, at 862-1165 or Larry.Brickner-Wood@unh.edu for more information. As always, we are an open, inclusive and welcoming community, and all are welcome to join us on this trip!
Prayer Services
Prayer and contemplation are essential parts of the ministry at Waysmeet. We have weekly prayer times, and take daily time for prayer as individuals and as a part of our community activities. We also believe in the power of healing prayer, and see every opportunity to pray for someone in need as a gift and blessing. If you would like to be a part of our prayer ministry, contact Chaplain Larry at Waysmeet at 862-1165 or e-mail him at Larry.Brickner-Wood@unh.edu.
If you have a request for prayer for any person, place, community, event or situation, we welcome the opportunity to include that in our regular prayers. Please send your prayer request to Waysmeet at Larry.Brickner-Wood@unh.edu.
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Throughout the semester and academic year, we take service trips to help with soup kitchens, Habitat for Humanity and homeless shelters in Portland and Boston.
Annual CROP Walk to end Hunger
For over twenty years, we have had an annual spring walk to raise funds for Church World Service, which hhas many programs to end world hunger and promote sustainability throughout the world. Since the walk started, we have raised over $125,000, and 25% of the funds have been used for local hunger programs. We need:
- Volunteers to serve on an organizing committee
- Volunteers to work registration on the Walk day
- Volunteers to solicit and recruit walkers and sponsors
- Volunteers to staff tables in the MUB two weeks prior to the event
- Volunteers to help with publicity
Inter-Faith Hospitality Network
This new program in the Seacoast will provide housing all year for homeless women and families. Each week, a religious community will provide a building and volunteers to host homeless families. We are partnering with local churches to provide volunteers to help during the week, approximately 6 times a year. We hope to begin the program in the fall of 2003.
Other Services
- Individual counseling and spiritual guidance
- Guest preaching and leading of worship
- Teaching, speaking, and presentations
- Information and referral
- Cornucopia food pantry and furniture loan
- Coalition and partnership building
- Small group retreats and facilitation