Community Good Will
Recently the local newspaper, the Manhattan Mercury, has made mention of the community service provided by Zeandale Community Church. The first was in an article about the Angel Food Program. Zeandale was instrumental in helping bring the program to the Manhattan area. For the time being our people as well as the rest of the churches involved in the Manhattan area, go to Topeka to pick up the items to be distributed. An hour after they leave Topeka a crew of busy people get the boxes ready and usually by 12:00 noon on Saturday the food is all gone, much of it to needy people who were wondering where their next meal was coming from.
The Angel Food program is unique in that it is open to anyone who wants to participate. One box of food, which is loaded with high protein products, costs $30.00. There is enough food in the box for one person for a month and for a family of four for a week. Purchases can be made either by cash or food stamps and the orders have to be placed and paid for three weeks before delivery. Last month we gave away 18 boxes of food to needy people.
Zeandale was again mentioned by Gary LaGrange who set out to raise school supplies for children in Iraq as an act of good will from our country to theirs. Gary noted that they had raised 38,000 pounds of goods—school supplies and backpacks—and $20,000 to help ship the supplies. Zeandale was mentioned as one of the contributing churches.
When this project started I asked one of new member if he and his wife would take this project on. They did gladly. In a short period the couple reported they wanted the stuff moved because they had one bedroom in their home fully packed with school supplies. Gary LaGrange was impressed. He was impressed enough that he remembered the little stone church in Zeandale that helped out in a big way.
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