The Saturday morning sun shone down on hundreds of volunteers in blue T-shirts who were lined up in the parking lot at the Jemal's Bay 50 shopping center on Route 50 near the Bay Bridge.
"You're lucky it's not pouring down like Friday," one volunteer said to Mariners' Church executive minister the Rev. Bob Knight.
"It's not luck," the Rev. Knight said, glancing heavenward.
Members of Mariners' Church teamed up with Feed The Children, headquartered in Oklahoma City, to execute a unique project. The two groups vowed to supply boxes of food and personal care products in a single morning to every one of the 1,105 households in the city's public housing.
Kent Island resident Chuck Barton masterminded the project, convincing church elders it was doable.
He helped to raise the $24,300 from church members to cover the cost of shipping the cartons from Oklahoma City in three large tractor-trailers.
Baltimore area trucking firms ABF Freight System, Inc. and Baltimore Freightliner loaned six smaller trucks that were needed to ferry the items to the 10 housing projects. Truck drivers from ABF volunteered to work for free. Full Story.....
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