Hundreds of families coming to Our Daily Bread Food Pantry S ix months into the pandemic, masked
WENDY GLICK Executive Director
volunteers continue to efficiently direct hundreds of cars through the drive thru at Our Daily Bread Food Pantry each month, loading trunks or back seats with a variety of food items to sustain a family for a few days.
LEANNE MILLER
Senior Director of Development
MARY BETH CHAMBERS Marketing and Communications Director
Since July 1, Our Daily Bread has distributed food for more than 240,000 meals, feeding 27,000 people for about three days.
CatholicCharitiesWichita.org
Food insecurity continues to be one of the primary side effects of the economic downturn as families with reduced income struggle to make ends meet. Joe Seitz, program director for Our Daily Bread, expects that trend to continue well into 2021.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Christina Ricke, Chair K•Coe Isom
“There was already a significant need for food assistance in the greater Wichita area long before the pandemic happened,” Joe says. “The pandemic made a bad situation even worse, and we expect to see record numbers of individuals and families coming to the pantry well into 2021.” A steady stream of volunteers and cash donations allowing the pantry to make bulk food purchases are what is needed to keep the pantry running smoothly into 2021, Joe says.
Christopher J. Goebel, Vice Chair Star Lumber & Supply Co., Inc.
Fr. Daryl Befort
Diocese of Wichita, St. Joseph Parish, Andale
Scott Bergkamp
Bergkamp Construction
Monte Cook
Commerce Bank
Another way to help Our Daily Bread is to register your Dillons rewards card in the grocer’s Community Rewards Program and designate Catholic Charities, Inc. Wichita (Code XT082) to receive a rebate based on your purchases.
Christopher Dugan
Fiberglass and Composite Technology
Missy Hampel
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals
Stephen Hayes
Transformation continues at site of future ADS campus
In order to expand the footprint of the
former Michener Elementary School, old exterior walls came tumbling down, and new concrete foundations and slabs were poured.
Adult Day Services is enrolling Adult Day Services offers quality programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and seniors coping with Alzheimer’s, dementia or loneliness. If you have a loved one who would benefit from our affordable day programs, please call (316) 942-2008.
Then the crew from Dondlinger turned their attention to rebuilding, with structural steel erection and wall framing, along with the installation of new HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems. The campus will open as the new home of Adult Day Services in the spring of 2021.
Five Point Ventures, LLC
Mary Alice Johnson Kuman Learning Center
Most Rev. Bishop Carl A. Kemme, D.D. Bishop of Wichita
Patty Koehler
JR Custom Metal Products, LLC
Jeff Leonard
Triplett, Woolf and Garretson, LLC
Chuck Marshall K•Coe Isom
Ed Mikesell
Comfort Care Homes of Kansas City
Kevin Mitchelson
Wheeler & Mitchelson, Chartered
Kevin Mullen
Ritchie Associates, Inc.
Tony Sementelli
Flint Hills Resources
Carol Streckfus Cohlmia Marketing
Sr. Marsha Wilson, ASC
Adoorers of the Blood of Christ
