Golden Celery  Trophy Food Drive

During the summer months children are out of school and families need more help with food.  Unfortunately, donations to food pantries generally go down during summer months.  More than ten years ago local congregations came up with a fun way to solve this problem by challenging each other to see who could donate the most pounds per person during the month of July.  The trophy to be awarded to the winning congregation would be a gold tinted can of dehydrated celery that was produced in the 1970s. 

This competition for 2023 was amazingly successful.  During the month of July sixteen congregations came together and donated 21,109.4 pounds of food to Crossroads Urban Center's food pantries.  Holladay United Church of Christ gave the most  pounds of food with a total of 4,086.9 pounds!  Mt. Tabor gave the most food per person -- donating 112 pounds per person attending worship services that month.

All of this food has made it possible for us to continue serving people.  Our two food pantries gave away food to over 4,600 people during the month of June.  That is more than double the amount of people we served during the month of June in 2022.  It is so amazing to have so many people step forward to help make sure individuals and families have enough to eat.