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Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m.
Fellowship Hall
Northwood Church
Bldg.
4550 Central Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46205-1825
Offices
4550 Central Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46205-1825
Email:
office@midtownvineyard.org
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Faith, Hope & Love
Food Pantry
Martin Luther King Community Center
Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Association (MKNA)
Neighborhood Service
Prayer Outreach
Martin Luther
King Community Center
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Midtown Vineyard has been in partnership with the Martin Luther King Community Center for several years. We have an ongoing ministry that helps stock their food pantry that serves the economically challenged in our community.
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In 2009, Midtown Vineyard partnered with Noodles & Company Restaurant (Broad Ripple) and the Martin Luther King Community Center to invite neighbors to help stock their food pantry. Over 1,000 bags were placed on porches of homes in Butler-Tarkington and Broad Ripple inviting neighbors to fill the bags with non-perishable food items. Flyers on the bags invited everyone to bring their food donations to two one-day benefits at Noodles & Company on April 26 and August 29, 2009; on those days Noodles & Company also donated 15 percent of food sales to the Martin Luther King Community Center.
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The response was wonderful! Many people brought bags full of food donations. Members of Midtown Vineyard came for lunch and celebrated with our live worship band playing on the terrace of Noodles & Company. Noodles & Company had record sales so that they could donate even more to the Martin Luther King Community Center food pantry.
[Click here for August 2009 press release.]
[Click here for April 2009 press release.]
- On March 14, 2010, Noodles & Company and Midtown Vineyard Community Church hosted another food drive partnership. This was the third time these community partners pooled efforts to do something positive about battling hunger here in Indy. In April 2009 and August 2009, they pioneered the idea of asking folks to donate food items and eating at Noodles & Company as a way to help others. This year, for the first time, they were joined by Our Father's House Church.
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On March 7, volunteers from Noodles & Company, Midtown Vineyard Church, My Father's House Church, and the Martin Luther King Community Center placed over 1,000 bags on porches of homes in Butler-Tarkington and Broad Ripple, inviting neighbors to fill the bags with non-perishable food items to help stock the Martin Luther King Community Center food pantry. Flyers on the bags invited people to bring their food donations to the one-day benefit at Noodles & Company on March 14, and get a free fountain drink or Crispy Treat with each entree purchased. Noodles & Company also donated 15 percent of food sales on March 14 to the Martin Luther King Community Center.
"I am so grateful for the kindness of our neighbors," says Martin Luther King Community Center Executive Director Netetia Walker. "Lots of people are hurting right now and coming to us for help. Our friends came through again to help stock our food pantry. Thank you to everyone who gives."
Pastor Rob Stiles of Midtown Vineyard Church added, "Acts of kindness put legs on our faith. Our church is honored to join efforts with Noodles & Company and the Martin Luther King Community Center." Noodles & Company assistant manager Emma Guinn loves to host benefits for all kinds of good causes. "We have been blessed; why not do something nice for someone else?" said Guinn. Midtown Vineyard Community Church and Our Father's House Church also played a benefit concert at Noodles & Company. The restaurant was full and many bags of food for the Martin Luther King
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