Help provide meals through St. Luke's Supporting Hearts

Feed the Need has a new name, but its mission is the same.

By Amy Quesinberry
| 5:00 p.m. February 3, 2021

Southwest Orange
News

Supporting HEARTS, (formerly “Feed the Need”) is kicking off its first fundraising campaign to continue providing meal assistance to the roughly 8,000 Central Florida performers currently unemployed due to the pandemic. Supporting HEARTS is an outreach initiative through St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and was established with the mission to help distribute food and meals to Central Florida’s local arts community and entertainment professionals.

Supporting HEARTS is appealing to the community for help supporting performers, musicians, costumers, designers, characters, technicians and entertainment managers and their families.

The church’s theater program was just one of the many theater companies shuttered by COVID-19 and the congregation wanted to help neighboring cast and crews feeling the impact as well.

To help, visit supportingheartsorlando.org.

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Amy Quesinberry

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.