Seventy-eight Leadership Team members, Brothers from the area and their ladies met Saturday morning at 8 a.m. to volunteer at three places in the area. District 4 Deputy Christopher “Skipper” Young arranged for the group to assist with operations at Paul’s Pantry, The Community Giving Tree and the NEW Zoo from 8:30 a.m. until noon.
A group of eleven Brothers and their spouses lead by Deputy Grand Master Jeff Schoenfeldt volunteered at Paul’s Pantry, a food bank operational in Green Bay since 1984. Pictured above, Janelle Schoenfeldt, wife of Jeff, talks with a client at Paul’s Pantry.
The pantry receives no government funding, but rather relies on area businesses for food donations – and on volunteers to help distribute that food to needing members of the community. The pantry distributes more than five million pounds of food each year.
While there, the volunteers helped guide the more than 340 clients the pantry received that day through the process of making sure they had enough food for their families for the upcoming week.
All the volunteers remarked how incredible the experience was and how they really felt they made a positive impact in the lives of those challenged with food insecurity.
