Earlier this year, we were contacted by the Franklin County Emergency Food Pantry Board about becoming a “front-facing partner” for the Food Pantry.
On June 1, we began accepting orders for the Food Pantry and distributing them from our building.
As a “front-facing partner,” we are responsible for taking applications for food boxes and sending them to ROSM. When ROSM confirms that the application has been accepted (based on the minimal criteria that they be a Franklin County resident and that they have not applied for a box at another location as well or for more than one box a month), one of our volunteers is notified that they will need to be prepared to pick up food boxes the next day. The day after an application is received, our volunteers pick them up from the Food Pantry and then hand them out to the clients at our church building.
When the Food Pantry reached out to us, there were no “front-facing partners” on the west side of Frankfort. With our location being so easily accessible by bus, the Missions Committee and Pastor Emily agreed that partnering in this way felt like the right thing to do. Within a week of announcing our desire to partner with the Food Pantry in this way, 18 Immanuelites signed up to help pick up and distribute food boxes.
This is such a testament to our generosity and desire to serve our community!
Thank you to Chuck Wolfe, Bruce Dungan, Anna Mayne, Karen Lawson, Rob and Susan Laurenson, Betty and Jim Claycomb, Steve and Cheryl Dooley, Cathy Thomas, Shelley Lewis, Jane Brake, Bennie League, Curtis Smoot, Valerie and Paul Sommerfield, and Sara Early Jenkins for your willingness and enthusiasm to serve!
You are the embodiment of what it means to “experience and express God’s unconditional love.”