(ROCKWALL, TX – May 1, 2015) The Lake Pointe Church food pantry and the North Texas Food Bank continue to make a positive impact on the community through LP food pantry’s CHOICE Day program, helping to end local hunger while sharing Christ and building believers.
Lake Pointe Church began a partnership with the North Texas Food Bank in January 2014, and through this partnership has been able to expand its food pantry and open it for client shopping once a week every Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., known as CHOICE Day.
Clients need to have a picture ID and will be signed in once the LP food pantry’s doors open. As a great way to get to know each and every client, Lake Pointe volunteers will personally interview clients before handing them a shopping list for their families. Once it’s their turn to shop, clients can then pick out items they know their family will enjoy.
The food pantry at Lake Pointe Church receives tremendous support from Kroger, which provides day-old bakery goods, as well as from Bimbo Bakery, which pitches in loaves of bread weekly for the cause.
“Many of our clients are in need of social community as much as they need food,” said Treci Loya, compassion ministry associate atLakePointe. “We hope they will seeLakePointeas a place to feel at home and make the connection to some wonderful people in our community, while ultimately finding the love of Christ. We serve our clients with compassion and respect. Seeing the gratitude they give back, over receiving something most of us take for granted, is our blessing!”
Of course, the food pantry at Lake Pointe would not be able to serve its community so well without the generous people of the church, the NTFB and the many dedicated volunteers who work endlessly and selflessly week after week to provide support to those going hungry within the community.
“Volunteers make CHOICE Day possible,” Loya said.
According to the NTFB, Rockwall has over 10,000 people living in our community that are food insecure, meaning they have to decide whether to pay for basic housing needs or food. TheLakePointeChurchfood pantry currently averages about 60 families per week and that number is only expected to rise as more people become aware of this service.
By Austin Wells, Blue Ribbon News reporter.
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