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Happy New Year!

Thank you for visiting our Waukee Area Christian Services website. This site was designed to provide information about all of our growing ministries. 

Not knowing what God’s plan would be, we opened the doors of the Food Pantry in October 2005 serving 26 families. Today, the Food Pantry is serving four times as many families and serving even more through our Free Clinic and The Fruitful Vine Garden.  

Our wonderful volunteers and generous donations have allowed us to serve the growing needs of families seeking help. I'm truly amazed by God’s work!  

Please take time to look around the site and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. 

Smiles,
Melissa Stimple, Director
Waukee Area Christian Services


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Gratitude and Blessings from Waukee Area Christian Food Pantry

Over Thanksgiving, Waukee Area Christian Food Pantry gave out 134 “Share Your Feast” Thanksgiving meal boxes and Advent kits!  The families expressed much appreciation at receiving the box filled with ingredients for a complete Thanksgiving meal and wonderfully surprised to receive the candle kits and devotionals. 

Thanks to those of you who donated food and funding for the Thanksgiving food boxes and those who donated their time to assemble the boxes and help with distribution. Thanks, also to Westview Church for adding the spiritual component by providing the Advent kits. 

The following is a touching story from the day these boxes were distributed:

On the day we were distributing Thanksgiving food boxes, we had a gentleman come to the pantry who had never been here before. He was an older man who had come directly from his work at a local fast-food restaurant, still wearing his uniform. He was nervous about visiting the pantry, but was doing what he needed to do to provide for his family (with three children!).

Because he hadn’t been to the pantry before, he wasn’t preregistered for a Thanksgiving meal box. Of course, the pantry could still provide him with food, but didn’t think we had any extra turkeys or hams, which were ordered based on preregistration numbers. He was told he would be welcome to a turkey or ham at the end of the distribution time if there were any extras.

He had some time to wait, and decided to stay here rather than leave and come back, since he had limited money for gas. He was outside of the building, walking around, visibly uncomfortable, when another patron of the pantry noticed his situation. This woman has used food pantry services numerous times in the past, and definitely has financial need in her family. However, that day, she was touched by his situation.

She came into the pantry and said she wanted to give her family’s turkey to the man who was waiting to see if one would be available for him. She gave up something significant to her family so that his family could be blessed.

When the pantry closed that evening, there were no extra turkeys.

What a picture of sacrificial giving.  

— Melissa Stimple, Westview Church 

 
Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.



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