NEIGHBORS TO THE RESCUE TEAM UP TO HELP CENTRAL FLORIDA
03-14-2007
CENTRAL FLORIDA Neighbors to the Rescue teamed up with several community-based and faith-based groups to help restock depleted food banks in both tornado-struck areas and those still recovering from Hurricane Wilma.
Among the groups that partnered in this project were: Compassion Alliance of Ocala, Homeland Compassion's Neighbors to the Rescue in Palm Beach County, First Baptist Church of Leesburg's Neighbors to the Rescue, Belleview Church of Christ, the employees of Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, First Assembly of God Church in DeLand, First Baptist Church of Paisley, St. Vincent DePaul of Eustis, Friendship House and I-HOPE of Immokalee and the Lake Mack Community Relief Effort.
A semi-trailer of basic foods and kitchen/household essentials donated by Church of Christ were distributed to food banks in DeLand, Paisley, Lake Mack, Leesburg, Lady Lake and Immokalee by volunteers from across the state working in teams.
Food was delivered by Munroe Regional Medical Center employees and Neighbors to the Rescue volunteers in Central Florida to a storage unit donated by a First Baptist Church of Leesburg parishioner, which serves as the central distribution site.
Food being delivered to I-HOPE in Immokalee, was distributed was delivered by Compassion Alliance to service agencies in the town who are helping the poor, disabled and elderly as they continue to recover from Hurricane Wilma of 2005. Compassion Alliance provided the truck and driver, and matched the donation with several more tons of frozen turkeys, hams, prime rib and other high-quality foods. Immokalee has recently suffered a community set-back with a serious arson fire that killed six people.
Homeland Compassion sent a team from Palm Beach County to deliver food and supplies to Lake Mack, Paisley and restocked the First Assembly of God in DeLand which has been going out frequently to try to find families who are not otherwise being served. Members of Christ Fellowship and Summit Christian School made up the Homeland Compassion Team.