Mission Partners

Project N.O.W.

Project N.O.W. provides weekend meals and snacks for families with preschool children who participate in local Head Start preschool. We provide monthly deliveries of fresh and shelf-stable food to help families of preschool children better provide meals and snacks on weekends when children are not participating in school-provided meals. Volunteers for Project N.O.W. help by donating funds, shopping for food, delivering and packing food boxes, and praying for the families in the program.

Memorial Boulevard Soup Kitchen

WGCC members partner with Memorial Boulevard Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to provide lunch for MBCC’s neighborhood soup kitchen on the third Thursday of each month. Volunteers can donate funds, help with planning and shopping for meals, and help to prepare and serve meals at MBCC. Please contact the church office for more information or to volunteer.

Food Bank pick-up and delivery

Memorial Boulevard Christian Church / Webster Rockhill Ministries Food Bank Delivery

On the 2^nd Thursday of each month, WGCC rents a 26’ box truck to deliver orders from the St. Louis Area Foodbank to food pantries operated by Memorial Boulevard Christian Church and by Webster/ Rock Hill Ministries.  The combined orders are usually 6-8 tons.  As long as we are able to rent a “dock high” truck, the Foodbank will load the orders using fork trucks. 

On delivery, however, the orders must be unloaded manually, usually at around 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Boulevard, and at around noon at Webster/ Rock Hill. The pantries are generally able to arrange at least some volunteers to help with unloading, although it is a fair amount of physical work.  Strong backs and weak minds are helpful, but not required.