WEYBURN - Over the summer, the Weyburn Free Methodist Church decided to come alongside the Salvation Army, as they decided to collect groceries to stock the shelves of the food bank.
“To generate interest and have some fun, we decided to weigh some of our children and make their combined weight our goal. The good news is that WFMC kids are healthy, as they weighed in at 1,177 pounds,” said Pastor Jody Pfeifer.
“The challenge was to collect that many pounds in food items. This past week, we met our goal,” she added, as at the end the church collected and delivered 1,200 pounds to the food bank.
“What our church did is noteworthy and maybe it will inspire another church or organization to do something similar,” added Pfeifer.
Nicole Strickland of the Salvation Army said the donation comes at a good time, as donations of food are down in the summer and at the start of school, plus there is an increased demand once school starts up.
The food bank continues to be in need of food supplies, and requires such items as pasta, pasta sauce, fresh and canned vegetables, soup, cereal, school snack supplies and juice boxes, peanut butter, among other supplies.
