Local Churches Gather Food For Area Hungry

Volunteers from five Huntley churches and half a dozen more from Crystal Lake filled a semi-trailer with food donations for the Northern Illinois Food Bank Sunday at Huntley's Faith Community Church.  FCC operates its own food pantry to help area families but stevedore-for-a-day David Bieber said, "This is the first time we've (had a food drive) as a community of churches."

Sunday's collection was one in which about 30 McHenry County churches banded together this month under the rubric Christ Together to collect food and financial donations for the area's hungry.  The donations at FCC will be trucked to Aurora this morning where NIFB will distributed them to area food banks.  "Some of it might be coming back here," FCC volunteer Geoff Gentry observed ironically.

Area churches contributing to Sunday's drive included:

Faith Community Church, Huntley
Springbrook Community, Huntley 
Willow Creek, Huntley
The Well, Huntley
Westlake Community Church, Huntley
Immanuel Lutheran, Crystal Lake
Willow Creek Community Church, Crystal Lake
Harvest Bible Chapel, Crystal Lake
Trinity Baptist Community Church, Crystal Lake
Vineyard Christian Church, Crystal Lake
Christian Fellowship, Crystal Lake
Crosspoint Lutheran Church, Lakewood

Faith Community Church Food Pantry helps about 200 members and non-members on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.

In the pic:  Huntley's Faith Community Church and Springbrook Community Church contributed six pallets of non-perishable food all by themselves in Sunday's drive for the Northern Illinois Food Bank.