Help deliver smiles, warm greetings and baskets full of love to 350 older adults!

“We love because he first loved us.”

1 John 4:19.

On Thursday, May 2, over 350 older adults living in Perry and Northern Dallas County will be met with a smile and warm greetings at their door as volunteers hit the streets to deliver baskets full of love and encouragement. This year, a secondary goal has been added; raising funds to keep the home-delivered meals program for older adults in Northern Dallas County going.

Launched in 2021, “Project Deliver the LOVE” is a home-grown, award-winning event that brings the community together to do good, have fun, and celebrate our older friends, neighbors and loved ones. Each year,100 volunteers, called #DifferenceMakers, start at Perry Lutheran Homes Eden Acres Campus to pack up baskets with fresh fruit, puzzle and devotion books, snacks and more. Then, in small teams, they set off to deliver the “love” to older adults living in their homes and senior living communities. Through area churches and community partners, most “Project Deliver the LOVE” basket items are donated leaving funds raised to support delivering meals and love every weekday throughout the year to home-bound older adults in Perry, Minburn, Dallas Center, Granger and Woodward.

Over 20,000 meals are prepared, cooked, transported and delivered each year. Just as important as the nutritious meals are the daily visits and wellness checks by kind and loving Meals on Wheels delivery drivers.

However, the costs to prepare, cook, transport and deliver over 20,000 meals each year far exceeds available funding leaving a sizable program deficit of over $100,000. This program is not sustainable unless organizations, businesses, communities and individuals step up to financially support this life-saving service.

To accomplish this, we need the support of generous partners, like you, who want to ensure that these men and women in Perry and northern Dallas County are remembered, celebrated, well-nourished and loved. Your gift will be used to not only make an impact on 350 older adults in one day, but to provide daily meals, wellness checks, and love to older adults in Northern Dallas County throughout the year.

Will you help "deliver the love?"

(Watch the short video below about "Project Deliver the LOVE" 2021)