Over two tons of peanut butter was just donated to the North Texas Food Bank – 5,189 pounds to be exact! Congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout North Texas gathered peanut butter during the month of September with 527.25 of those pounds coming from the Richardson Stake made of up congregations in Richardson, Garland, Wylie, Murphy, Sachse and North Dallas. One group of enterprising youth from the Garland 3rd Ward congregation organized a car wash requesting a donation of a jar of peanut butter for a wash!
One of the service coordinators Kate Staub of Wylie said that her family loved participating in the peanut butter drive and counting the jars after the drive finished to report back to their friends and neighbors how much they had all collected.
“We talked about how fortunate we are to be able to have enough food but that there are others, quite possibly even classmates, that don’t have enough food to eat over the weekend,” Staub said. It made us feel really good to share -and it was really exciting for our kids to see the collection boxes getting fuller and fuller each week.”
Congregations in Plano, Frisco, Prosper, and McKinney also gathered hundreds of jars of peanut butter. An added contribution of 2,500 pounds from the Humanitarian Fund of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints spread a lot of hope for the people served by the North Texas Food Bank.