On Saturday morning, May 30th, Venturing Crew 1785 of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Mechanicsville, MD conducted a drive-thru food drive to benefit a community food pantry. Crew members advertised the food drive in their own neighborhoods and individually set up tables or bins roadside in their yard or community open space for members of the community to drive up and drop off their donations while maintaining physical separation.
The crew also ran a drive-thru drop off station in the parking lot of their charter organization with one Venturer and adult family member at a time rotating to supervise the drop offs there. The sum of everyone’s individually coordinated effort was 721 pounds of food and $45 cash donation were collected to help our local food pantry respond to the increased demand resulting from our current public health situation.