Ozone Ministries Hosts All City, All Ages Food Drive

It’s Saturday morning and instead of sleeping in, watching tv or playing video games, Springdale Ozone student Travis runs from house to house passing out bags for the Ozone canned food drive. Travis was just one of the many students who took part in the annual event, which provided over 375 bags of canned food to area food banks. The next Saturday, elementary Bentonville Lifeline student Sara collects similar bags, lugs them back to the van and helps distribute them to a food bank in the area. A couple of days later, Rogers Primetime student Jonathan sorts cans of vegetables, fruits, soup and everything in between in preparation for distribution at the Samaritan Community Center in Rogers.

Ozone Ministries’ annual event, Together We Can, enabled students from every age group and every city to participate in helping to fight hunger in Northwest Arkansas. The high schoolers in each city started off the event by stapling informative flyers to large paper bags and distributing those bags to their local neighborhoods. The elementary kids came on board next, collecting the bags of food in teams one Saturday morning and thanking those who donated. Middle and Junior High School students finished it off by sorting the cans for organizations such as Samaritan Community Center and LifeSource International. Ozone had the opportunity to serve organizations in Springdale, Fayetteville, Rogers, and Bentonville. Every age group had a distinct and important part of the canned food drive and together we were, and are, able to accomplish much more than we could have done on our own.