(Eagle News) — A massive food donation drive for the Edmonton Food Bank was conducted by the members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) or Church on Christ in Canada where they donated more than 400 boxes of non-perishable food items for the local food bank.
Sunday’s massive food donation drive, under the INC Giving project, involved some 600 volunteers who packed non-perishable food items in at least 445 boxes that were to be given to the Edmonton Food Bank this Tuesday, according to reports.
The food drive in Edmonton by the INC volunteers were also reported by the media in Canada, particularly by Global News.
“Such an amazing contribution from #IglesiaNiCristo Edmonton & Bonnyville for INCgiving Western Canada Food Drive,” said a tweet from the Edmonton Food Bank.
Members of a local fire station in Canada also helped out as the INC members dropped of hundreds of boxes in their station.
Ken Freund of the Edmonton Fire Services said he was amazed with how the Church of Christ members were readily helping out the community that they also assisted in the project.
“We’re willing to jump in and help out, and be a part of the team as well,” Freund said in an interview shown by Global News shown in Canada.
“You can obviously see the outcome.. It’s good for everybody,” he said.
The INC volunteers collected the food items for two weeks.
The Edmonton Food Bank expressed its appreciation of the food donation drive by the INC through the INC Giving project.
Church members formed two long lines to pass the boxes one by one and stack them inside Fire Station no. 10 in Edmonton.
The firemen also helped out.
Later, they also posed in photos with the Church members who held a large tarpaulin of the INC Giving project.
“Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it,” the INC Giving poster read.
Eric Beck of Global News also tweeted about the Church’s food donation drive.
“A member tells me this is just the beginning of a larger effort to give back to those in need in our community,” he said in a tweet.
The event is part of ongoing activities, including blood donation drive, to help the community being conducted by Church members worldwide.