Zionsville Food Pantry breaks ground for new facility | Local News
It’s been at minimum 5 many years in the generating, but the Zionsville Meals Pantry has formally damaged ground on a new 5,400 sq. foot facility to home the canned, fresh and frozen meals in which the organization has used to provide the group for a lot more than 30 a long time.
Zionsville Presbyterian Church (ZPC) donated classroom place for three a long time and with exponential growth around the yrs, ZPC labored with food pantry workers and a big support group to donate residence on ZPC’s grounds to establish the framework.
Customers of the Zionsville Law enforcement Office, Lions Club, Rotary, Kiwanis, Neighborhood Basis of Boone County and numerous some others turned out for a the latest groundbreaking ceremony.
A shorter presentation included the previous, current and foreseeable future of the food items pantry.
“The pantry was established in 1991 by a group of Zionsville citizens who acknowledged a have to have,” claimed Nancy Thompson, volunteer and coordinator for the pantry. “We became an company of Gleaners Foods Bank 5 years later and we also utilized to participate in a USDA federal plan, yielding 82,000 lbs . of clean and frozen food just about every calendar year.”
The pantry outgrew the classroom area immediately, at some point working with a few lecture rooms for fridges, freezers and pallets of canned items but volunteers and supporters realized a little something essential to be finished.
With extra than 100 people browsing per 7 days, the pantry serves consumers from Progress, Thorntown, Whitestown, Lebanon and Zionsville.
The new facility will consist of restroom accessibility, a protected entry, a walk-in refrigerator and wander-in freezer, thanks to a very long list of donations and volunteers.
Not only is the pantry featuring foodstuff for these in want, volunteers also provide a listening ear and open hearts.
“We believe that when we give meals to the hungry, drink to the thirsty and a space to the homeless that we are welcoming Jesus himself,” ZPC Senior Pastor Jerry Deck reported. “We’re not just feeding their stomachs but reminding them they have not been neglected. They matter and they are loved and it is a amazing privilege to host the food pantry at ZPC.”
Because the pandemic, the pantry started an out of doors company, loading groceries into cars in drive-as a result of vogue and they prepare to carry on the assistance in the future. Volunteers of the pantry are readily available to converse, pray or merely listen to purchasers and with yrs of observe, they also have a listing of means to assist those seeking precise solutions.
The design is predicted to just take 10 months but the pantry will proceed to operate from ZPC this 12 months.
The Zionsville Food items Pantry is open up from 5-6 p.m. each and every Thursday and from noon to 2 p.m. every Friday at 4775 W. 116th St., Zionsville.
For more info, pay a visit to the website at https://www.zpc.org/serve/zionsville-food stuff-pantry.
