Local Organizations Benefit From Supermarket Sweep
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
Mission Point Community Church and Grace College partnered with Owen’s Supermarket on East Center Street to host the fourth annual Super Market Sweep all day Wednesday. The Super Market Sweep was a day for community members to give back to area families in need this season, as they shopped for as many non-perishable food items as possible.
Volunteers passed out a list of needed food items and collected the purchased food. After all the food was collected, it went to replenish the pantries of Combined Community Services, Our Father's House and Salvation Army. Baby formula and diapers were given to Heartline Pregnancy Center.
Some of the items collected included canned vegetables, fruit and soup, granola bars, pancake mix and ramen noodles.
Financial donations were provided by Mission Point Community Church, Grace College, DePuy Orthopaedics, Nextremity Solutions, PayProTec and Wildman Uniform.
On Thursday volunteers and staff from CCS, Our Fathers House and Salvation Army unloaded the truck donated by Depuy that was filled with food.
Peggi Lisenbee Wright, director of client assistance, said CCS is thankful to receive the donations.
“With these months with the higher utility bills and illnesses that effect families, many people choose between taking the child to the doctor, paying NIPSCO or eating healthy, and the food coming in helps to feed them,” Lisenbee Wright said.
Stephen Possell, CCS executive director, said the donations will assist CCS clients.
“Along with these donations and the foodathon we just had, this will help us with three months of food and is a huge help. And with the cold the way it was last year we were delivering food because it was hard for people to get in,” Possell said.
Possell said CCS served 560 families last month.
Ben and wife Tracy Irvine, CCS volunteers and Mission Point Church members, assisted in unloading the truck at CCS Thursday and loading items on the truck Wednesday night at Owen’s.
“It’s an honor and privilege because I feel like the Lord has blessed me so I need to give back and help to bless others, and I think that’s what God calls us to do,” Ben said.
Tracy said it is rewarding to help others.
“I love to help families out and it is a blessing to do that and see their smiling faces,” she said.
Kearstin Criswell, event organizer, said the event was an opportunity for the community to give back.
“Over $21,000 worth of food was spent on the Supermarket Sweep,” Criswell said. “I think it is important to give an opportunity for people who live here to give back to their neighbors.”[[In-content Ad]]
Mission Point Community Church and Grace College partnered with Owen’s Supermarket on East Center Street to host the fourth annual Super Market Sweep all day Wednesday. The Super Market Sweep was a day for community members to give back to area families in need this season, as they shopped for as many non-perishable food items as possible.
Volunteers passed out a list of needed food items and collected the purchased food. After all the food was collected, it went to replenish the pantries of Combined Community Services, Our Father's House and Salvation Army. Baby formula and diapers were given to Heartline Pregnancy Center.
Some of the items collected included canned vegetables, fruit and soup, granola bars, pancake mix and ramen noodles.
Financial donations were provided by Mission Point Community Church, Grace College, DePuy Orthopaedics, Nextremity Solutions, PayProTec and Wildman Uniform.
On Thursday volunteers and staff from CCS, Our Fathers House and Salvation Army unloaded the truck donated by Depuy that was filled with food.
Peggi Lisenbee Wright, director of client assistance, said CCS is thankful to receive the donations.
“With these months with the higher utility bills and illnesses that effect families, many people choose between taking the child to the doctor, paying NIPSCO or eating healthy, and the food coming in helps to feed them,” Lisenbee Wright said.
Stephen Possell, CCS executive director, said the donations will assist CCS clients.
“Along with these donations and the foodathon we just had, this will help us with three months of food and is a huge help. And with the cold the way it was last year we were delivering food because it was hard for people to get in,” Possell said.
Possell said CCS served 560 families last month.
Ben and wife Tracy Irvine, CCS volunteers and Mission Point Church members, assisted in unloading the truck at CCS Thursday and loading items on the truck Wednesday night at Owen’s.
“It’s an honor and privilege because I feel like the Lord has blessed me so I need to give back and help to bless others, and I think that’s what God calls us to do,” Ben said.
Tracy said it is rewarding to help others.
“I love to help families out and it is a blessing to do that and see their smiling faces,” she said.
Kearstin Criswell, event organizer, said the event was an opportunity for the community to give back.
“Over $21,000 worth of food was spent on the Supermarket Sweep,” Criswell said. “I think it is important to give an opportunity for people who live here to give back to their neighbors.”[[In-content Ad]]
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