Archive for August 20th, 2007

August 20, 2007

Food Drive Update

What an amazing day!  We just finished unoading all of the food that our church donated yesterday.  This church is amazing! NewSpring, you went above and beyond in being generous and meeting a need in our community.  We collected a lot of different items yesterday, but I am sure that there is no more macaroni and cheese left in any grocery store within a 50 mile radius of this town.  I think we collected enough macaroni and cheese to give a box of it to every man, woman, and child in South Carolina!

When we initially planned to do this, we were going to do a food drive to meet the needs of the Salvation Army…then we heard the pantry at the Soup Kitchen was bare so we decided to share the food with them also.  We were able to do way more than we initially planned because of the generosity we saw yesterday.  Here are some stats about our food drive…

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