- November 23, 2024
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When talking about the desire to start a food pantry in Flagler County, the Rev. Charlene E. Cothran references the summer she bought her first home, in Atlanta. The home, she recalled, was in a less affluent community, and one day, a group of kids came up to her and said they would wash her car for a quarter.
She let them. And she paid them. It didn’t take long for Cothran to realize that the determination behind the chores was hunger. A few days later, she brought home a giant pack of hot dogs.
“They spent the summer on my porch,” she said. “I’m not sure what the circumstances were, but I have never forgotten that, in summertime, kids are hungry.”
Cothran, pastor at ZION Baptist Church of Palm Coast, which held its first Sunday service on Mother’s Day, said that knowing kids cannot eat at school over the summer was one of the driving forces behind opening a food pantry at her church.
TWO FISH Emergency Food Pantry is now available for residents of Flagler County. The program, which is sponsored by Heritage Funeral and Cremation Services, is open noon to 1:30 p.m. and 6-8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, at the church’s leased site, 1 Enterprise Drive, Suite 7, in Bunnell. The pantry is also open on an emergency basis.
“We can’t feed all of Flagler County, but we don’t want the people that are walking distance or driving distance from ZION to go without (eating),” Cothran said.
Donations to the pantry can be made by stopping by the location between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
For additional rules of the pantry, those interested in receiving benefits are asked to visit www.ZionBaptistPC.org or call 283-4905.What: TWO FISH Emergency Food Pantry
When: noon to 1:30 p.m. and 6-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays
Where: ZION Baptist Church, 1 Enterprise Dive, Suite 7, Bunnell
