Courthouse Church Delivers $33,000 of Baked Goods
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:02
Last year, the Courthouse Road Seventh-day Adventist Church distributed over $33,000 of baked goods from Panera Bread.
Through their local Day-End Dough-Nation program, Panera Bread donates all unsold bread and baked goods to local area hunger relief agencies and charities. Collectively, Panera bakery-cafes donated a retail value of approximately $100 million worth of unsold bread and baked goods in 2010 to help neighbors in need.
In its fourth year of participating in the program, Courthouse members go to the restaurant on their assigned days to pick up large plastic bags of bread and pastries and individually package the items to include a written invitation to enroll in the church’s Discovery Bible Study series.
Each week, Courthouse members deliver these packages to Thomas Johns Cancer Center, Goodwill Industries, Good Samaritan Ministries and Freedom House Homeless Shelter’s dining hall. The Courthouse church family says it’s been a huge blessing to see the smiling faces when the bread is delivered and about once a month, someone requests to be enroll in the Bible studies, increasing the blessing.
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