Sugar Grove challenges other Bowling Green District UM churches to a "food race"!

More and more people in our communities are suffering the consequences of rising food costs, and are having to sacrifice food in order to to pay for other necessities such as utilities, medicine, housing and transportation. Food pantries are running low on supplies and find themselves unable to meet the increasing demand.

During the month of October, Sugar Grove is challenging our sister churches in the Bowling Green District to collect non-perishable food for area food pantries. Those churches willing to accept the challenge are instructed to collect as much food as possible during the month, and the church which collects the most pounds of food per member will receive a plaque recognizing them as winner. This plaque will be a traveling award, in hopes that our District will make this an annual event every October (to coincide with Hunger Awareness Month).

Contact Kevin Mays at 270-303-0761 or kevin.mays@insightbb.com. The idea for this challenge came from a story in the Interpreter Magazine (http://www.interpretermagazine.org/interior.asp?ptid=43&mid=12955)