A Church Alive

The Zeandale Community Church is a small rural church east of Manhattan Kansas. Attendance runs between 50 and 80. But it is a very active church regardless of the fact that the majority of the congregation is over 50 years of age. 

Pictured here are sixty boxes packed for the Christmas Child project sponsored by Samaritan's Purse. We have been involved in this project for several years. Two years ago one of the missionaries we support in Kenya was involved in the delivery of Christmas Child boxes. We will never know whether or not some of our boxes were involved, but our church was involved on both ends. 

Over a year ago the church got involved in the Angel Food project. Angel Food provides high protein food for people an a minimum cost. At the moment Angel Food provides enough food for one person for a month for $30.00. The same amount will take care of a family for a week. No strings attached, no restrictions on who can buy.  So our people go to Topeka and collect the food we will distribute through Zeandale. Families in the church also buy Angel Food boxes that are designated "gift boxes" and are given to needy people every month, not just at Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

The church also supports a food pantry that is maintained at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Every month a basket of non-perishable food is taken to the pantry to be distributed to people in need.