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Bethany Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a small, predominantly African American congregation on East 12th Street. They are serving a great need in the 78721 and 78723 zip codes by distributing food the second Wednesday and fourth Tuesday of each month, except for November and December.
Currently Bethany serves 50 families a month with food from the Capital Area Food Bank and other sources, including donations. The church members also pool their newspaper coupons for toilet paper, toothpaste, toothbrushes, diapers, wipes and other necessities that the Food Bank does not provide, and one of the members does the shopping at HEB, Randall's, and other stores.
If you work on a distribution day, you will enjoy being with the wonderful and humorous members of Bethany, plus you will see close up the people they serve.
In December Bethany will also sell pecans to raise money for the kitchen, and we plan to have a table at our church one Sunday to sell pecans for them.
There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board for helping at the pantry. If you will bring your coupons (the ones you usually recycle) to April she will get them to the Bethany shopper. |
