Christ Community Church has teamed up this summer with national program Canning Hunger to enable and equip families to collect food in their neighborhoods to help feed the hungry locally.

This all-church summer initiative will culminate this weekend as churchgoers will bring what they’ve collected in their neighborhoods to weekend services at all four Christ Community Church campuses—in St. Charles, Bartlett, Aurora, and DeKalb.

At each campus, trucks from local food pantries will be waiting to directly accept all donations.  At the St. Charles Campus, donated food will be given to the St. Charles and Elgin branches of The Salvation Army as well as the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry. In DeKalb, volunteers from Salem Lutheran Church will be on hand to accept donations that will serve the entire DeKalb County. Donations dropped off at the Blackberry Creek Campus in Aurora will be given to the Aurora Interfaith Food Pantry. And, finally, donations at the Bartlett Campus will be picked up by Neighborhood Food Pantry.

Canning Hunger is a program based on a simple idea: You let your neighbors know you will be coming around to collect food and then collect whatever they can give. Not only do you then help the needy but you build community in your neighborhood.

For more information about Christ Community Church, visit ccclife.org. For campus addresses and service times, see ccclife.org/locations.