Sometimes it really does take a community.  We recently signed up with Feed The Children to get food for our pantry.  As part of the agreement, we're supposed to store the food on location and pick the food up in Oklahoma City. 

As you can imagine, we're not prepared to drive our little 8 passenger van to OKC to pick up food. But, Virco stepped up to the challenge.  They've agreed to pick the food up on their way back through from one of their deliveries. 

And, in our 100+year old house, we don't have much storage.  In preparation for our Feed the Children agreement,the Faulkner County Youth Leadership Class of 2009 and the Carpentry Apprenticeship class from Nabholz built and painted two portable storage buildings for us.  

Last week, we got our first call from Feed the Children.  They had three pallets of cereal, a pallet of corn and numerous pallets of water, soda and cleaning supplies.  We placed a call to Virco and they scheduled the pick up. 

Two days later, they came through OKC and picked up the food.  Since they were in an 18-wheeler, they had to unload into something smaller to come down Faulkner Street.  FedEx stepped up and agreed to bring the food to us the following day. The food was placed in the storage buildings supplied by Nabholz and the Youth FCLI group. 

When the total picture is too large for us to handle on our own, we really do have to remember, sometimes it takes a community.