Holy Trinity’s Food Box: A Dream with a Theme – April 2022
On April 16, 2022, on a sunny Saturday morning, a small group met at Holy Trinity to complete a special project. Friends and fellow church members P. D. Matthews, Richard and Malinda Pankl, Cindy and Phillip Henning gathered to install our Community Food Box. This was a culmination of a project suggested by Midge Thomas at the Annual Meeting in January. Midge’s theme was “if you build it, they will come.”
A team was quickly assembled consisting of P. D. Matthews, Richard Pankl, and Phillip Henning in conversations with Midge Thomas and the Bishop’s Committee. The options were limited: build the Box ourselves or seek out someone who could build it for us at a reasonable price. The Meade County Detention Center workshop was contacted, given dimensions and guidelines and agreed to do the project for us at the price of $150. Mike from the Detention Center came and looked at Holy Trinity Church and the craftsmen at the workshop made a Box that resembles our church in shape, color and dimensions right down to the signature red doors. The guys were very proud of their work.
The Box was completed, picked up from the Detention Center and installed the day before Easter. On Easter Day, Fr. Hobart publicly blessed the Box and the contents. The community began taking much needed items that evening and even the evening before. Midge’s dream of “if you build it, they will come” has come to fruition.
The Holy Trinity family can be proud of this project as a worthy example of outreach to our town, community, and to the people of the Detention Center. Alleluia!
– Phllip Henning, Bishop’s Committee member
