In early February, Eric Boucher joined the FV Gleaners as the Assistant Manager.  Eric, his wife Teresa, and their son Noah attend Gateway Community Church where they are part of various ministries.  You may have met Teresa and Noah as they have volunteered at FVG from time to time in the past.  Eric enjoys puttering around his vegetable garden and fishing on the river! 

Meet Gideon Jeske who recently joined the Gleaner team as our part-time forklift operator.  We first met Gideon when he came with his grandma to volunteer.  He loves what we do here and is excited to join in the work.  Gideon attends Relate Valley Church and enjoys mountain biking, tossing a football with his dad, swimming & hiking. 

We are open Monday to Friday 8:30 am to noon. Come join the fun!

We are working on peppers and a variety of other vegetables. 

Plant closed BC Day Aug.1st & Labour Day Sept.5th

13 million soup servings were made this year. 

Countries we’ve sent soup mix to so far this year: Burundi, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Paraguay, Poland (Ukrainian Refugees), South Africa, and Ukraine.

Our RV sites are open for volunteers – email or call for reservations 

More volunteers means we can make more soup!  We’d like to get back up to our pre-covid amount of 15 million soup servings. 

Pray for Current Fundraising Projects:

•     New stainless steel tray drying racks $110,000

•     Dust mitigation for soup line $30,000   

On April 30, 2022 we held our Annual General Meeting.  Trevor Fowler opened the meeting. Bob Spyksma led us in the invocation and prayer. The Minutes and Financial Statements of the 2021 AGM were accepted as presented.  Trevor read the President’s Report on behalf of Ed Klassen as he was not well.  Ed’s report spoke of the blessing of Carl & Elaine’s years of service, their recent retirement, and the hiring of new staff Joel Pasma to the Plant Manager position, Malinda Rogusky as office Manager and Eric Boucher as Assistant Manager.  In his report, Ed shared that he would be stepping down from the President position and from the board due to battling cancer.  Trevor took a few moments to honour Ed & Anita for their many years serving at the Gleaners and expressed our love and prayers for them.  Joel & Malinda took the opportunity to publicly thank Carl & Elaine for all they did to help set them up in their new roles.  They feel they are standing on the shoulders of giants and pledge to do their best to carry on the legacy of faithful service to the Lord at the Gleaners. The Committee reports were shared.  Judy Bergen, of Love Guatemala was our guest speaker.  She shared slides, statistics, and stories of how Gleaners soup mix has blessed many in Guatemala. Don Sears led in a closing prayer after which we sang the Doxology.

Fraser Valley Gleaners is 100% donor driven.  Your donation dollars help us feed some of the world's hungry by converting surplus food into a nutritious soup mix.  Funds donated are used to operate our facility.  Charitable tax receipts will be issued for tax purposes on your donations.

- By Mail – cheque or money order donations can be mailed directly to FVG – 85 Winson Rd. Abbotsford, B.C. V2S 8E8.

- By Internet – credit card donations can be made via Tithe.ly by following the donate link on our web site @ www.fvgleaners.org   Donation receipts will be processed by Fraser Valley Gleaners.

- By Phone - Donations can be made by credit card call 604-870-9272 and talk to one of our staff.

Thank you for your continued support.

Trevor Fowler (President), Don Sears (Vice-President), Bill Spyksma (Treasurer), Bob Spyksma (Secretary), Bob Neufeld, Ann VanderMeulen, Case Van Muyen, Jim Vriend.  

The Bible says: “Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.” Psalm 115:1  

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85 Winson Road, Abbotsford, B.C. V2S 8E8

Phone: 604-870-9272 Toll Free: 1-866-772-7070 (Canada and USA)

email: info@fvgleaners.org

website: www.fvgleaners.org

Plant Manager - Joel Pasma

Office Manager - Malinda Rogusky