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Join us for the inaugural God & Country 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, November 9th at 9:00am at Coldstream Research Park.
The race is being orchestrated by the Kentucky Baptist Convention to honor our Veterans and provide funding & awareness for God's Pantry Food Bank. In addition to our chip timed 5K Run/Walk we'll have a 1 Mile Fun Walk, commemorative race T-shirts, Overall & Age Group awards (5K only), food, fun and fellowship.
The race will be conducted on the paved Legacy Trail with start/finish near the Coldstream Dog Park in Northwest Lexington.
If you can't join us in person consider signing up as a Virtual Runner/Walker and do your own "God and Country 5K" on your own schedule.
We'll be conducting a non perishable food drive in conjunction with the race. If you have a donation to make you can bring it to the race or packet pickup and we'll make sure it gets to God's Pantry Food Bank to help those in need in our community.
God's Pantry - Our Charity Beneficiary
Our race charity beneficiary/partner is God's Pantry Food Bank. Partial proceeds and 100% of runner donations will go to serve God Pantry's mission.
The Story of God’s Pantry Food Bank
Mim Hunt, the founder of God’s Pantry Food Bank, vowed to leave “the heartbreaking profession of social work” behind when she returned to her hometown of Lexington after serving as a child welfare worker in 1940’s New York City. She and her husband, Robert, opened “Mim’s,” a combination gift shop, antique gallery, and health food store, but after seeing poverty in Lexington that rivaled what she’d fought against in New York, she found herself unable to remain silent.
Mim began her work in Lexington by filling her station wagon with food, clothing, and bedding, and distributing it directly to individuals in need. God’s Pantry Food Bank was born out of this work in 1955 and remained mobile until the first pantry was opened in 1959.
Since its founding, the Food Bank has grown in many ways. What started with one woman attempting to do what she could to address a need is now an organization serving 50 counties in Central and Eastern Kentucky through a number of programs with a dedicated staff committed to the mission of solving hunger.
Mim Hunt devoted her life to helping others, and we continue to honor her legacy at God’s Pantry Food Bank. Her work is proof that one person, with every small action, can make a large impact. We invite you to join us in continuing Mim’s work.
Place
Lexington, KY US 40511
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Crossover God & Country 5K
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