At the Alabama-Crenshaw Baptist Association food pantry, housed in the associational office building in Glenwood, food is not the only thing going out the door with clients in need.
Jewel Killough, associational Woman’s Missionary Union missions consultant, said volunteers at the food pantry read Scripture with the people who come in the door, pray with them, encourage them and offer “spiritual help.”
The food pantry, open one Wednesday a month, provides a “balanced box” of food to people in crisis situations, Killough said. Each box has cans of fruit and vegetables, cooking oil, ketchup, cereal, flour, sugar, soups, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, jelly and other essentials.
The goods are donated by associational churches each month or purchased with money donated by the churches.
She said the “secret to the support” is having a scheduled calendar where two or three churches are assigned a certain month to give donations and send volunteers to work during the food pantry’s open hours. And that “secret” has paid off by keeping the food pantry running for more than 15 years.
“I leave there just very happy and encouraged or sometimes I leave there crying because I sympathize with the needs,” Killough said of the food pantry. “It’s a moving experience to serve people and pray for them in that way.”
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