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FEBRUARY 16, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 42
Project Lifesaver Comes To Troop J Lancaster
Enjoy A Meal At Joseph’s Table
BY COURTNEY MENGEL
Members of the Ascension Lutheran Church congregation volunteer their time preparing, cooking, and distributing free meals to the community. BY COURTNEY MENGEL
or the past eight years, Ascension Lutheran Church, located at 600 E. Penn Grant Road, Willow Street, has provided the community with a free meal on the third Thursday of each month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. through its ministry Joseph’s Table Community Meal. The ministry was created in the fall of 2015, but the first meal was held in April of 2016. The church members who were part of the development are Rhonda Miller, Lyn Daveler, Rick Spangler, Jay and Nancy Obetz, and about 15 others. Prior to the pandemic, people from both the congregation and the community came to the church, sat down, and enjoyed a meal and fellowship together. However, the
just about feeding people; it’s about building those relationships with one another.” Seifried noted that members of the congregation volunteer their time and talents to preparing these meals to the community. They make a wide variety of dishes, such as meatloaf, chicken corn soup, tacos, lasagna, pork and sauerkraut. Sometimes, the ministry will do a pig roast because one of the church members has a friend who owns a roaster. “They come in in the middle of the night, and they just roast this pig, and it’s the time of fellowship for them, too,” commented Seifried. Whenever the ministry has leftovers, someone from the congregation takes them to Tenfold, which is an organization formed by the merger of Lancaster Housing
Opportunity Partnership (LHOP) and Tabor Community Services in 2020. Tenfold offers housing advocacy and financial empowerment to Lancaster County residents. “There’s a good group of lay people who have just been so dedicated to this ministry,” stated Seifried. “I mean, they’re all just wonderful people who come back again and again, and sometimes we see old faces of people who volunteer, and sometimes we get some new faces.” Ascension Lutheran Church offers in-person worship services on Saturdays at 6 p.m. and on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Saturday services are livestreamed on the church’s Facebook page. For more information about Joseph’s Table or Ascension Lutheran Church, call 717-464-5683 or email office@ascensionws.org.
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ministry had to adjust to certain safety measures in 2020, so it was decided that the meals would be served as takeout in a drive-up format only. The meals have continued in this format and will do so for the foreseeable future. These meals are free to the public, but free will offerings are accepted to fund the ministry’s mission. “This is just part of our calling as Christians to engage in fellowship, to do an outreach to the community, and to kind of follow Jesus’ command to feed people,” said the Rev. Maureen L. Seifried, Ascension Lutheran Church pastor. “Being a Christian is about being in relationships with other people. We’re supposed to reach out and be in relationships with all sorts of people, so I think that’s kind of one of the core values of Joseph’s Table. It’s not
Trooper Kelly Osborne, a resident of Strasburg Township, has worked in Lancaster County since 2000. Over the years, she has developed friendships with several local police officers, state troopers, and employees of municipal departments, which is why she was surprised that she had never heard about Project Lifesaver until 2019. That year, Kelly decided to put her father, Courtney Osborne, in an assisted living facility because his dementia had worsened. Prior to that, Courtney had wandered at least twice, and on one occasion, he got lost while driving and was found in Delaware County. On Oct. 18, 2019, Kelly received a voicemail at work from a sheriff. The voicemail was difficult for her to understand; all Kelly heard