{"id":20358,"date":"2026-09-19T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/20358\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:02:00","slug":"vacation-bible-school-students-spend-time-helping-at-heart-of-alabama-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/20358\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Bible School students spend time helping at Heart of Alabama Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: Jun 15, 2026 5:39 PM CDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta post-author\">\n            by<br \/>\n            WAKA Action 8 News        <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3698973 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/d01d988d-7213-4ce2-9b89-bfd98f80860f.jpg\" alt=\"D01d988d 7213 4ce2 9b89 Bfd98f80860f\" width=\"1179\" height=\"1567\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children from the Vacation Bible School at Coosada Baptist Church spent time helping at the Heart of Alabama Food Bank, Monday, June 15, 2026 \u2013 Photo from Heart of Alabama Food Bank<\/p>\n<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) \u2013 Vacation Bible School students spent time helping others at the Heart of Alabama Food Bank in Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>The KidsLife Children\u2019s Ministries group from Coosada Baptist Church took time today to donate food to the food bank and to learn more about how it helps thousands of people across Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their Vacation Bible School project, the children have been collecting cereal through a friendly boys vs. girls competition. They brought the cereal donations with them to the food bank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3698974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ba8855e5-366e-4e3f-bad0-ae127b683f16.jpg\" alt=\"Ba8855e5 366e 4e3f Bad0 Ae127b683f16\" width=\"1179\" height=\"983\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children from the Vacation Bible School at Coosada Baptist Church spent time helping at the Heart of Alabama Food Bank, Monday, June 15, 2026 \u2013 Photo from Heart of Alabama Food Bank<\/p>\n<p>The children also found out more about food insecurity and packed food boxes for local seniors.<\/p>\n<p>They met people from Zizi\u2019s Bee Company, one of the food bank\u2019s partner agencies. Zizi\u2019s brought its hands-on educational bee trailer, giving the children a safe, up-close encounter with live bees while teaching them about the important role pollinators play in our food system and everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted: Jun 15, 2026 5:39 PM CDT by WAKA Action 8 News Children from the Vacation Bible School at Coosada Baptist Church spent time helping at the Heart of Alabama Food Bank, Monday, June 15, 2026 \u2013 Photo from Heart of Alabama Food Bank MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) \u2013 Vacation Bible School students spent time helping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[4247,4245,4243,4246,4244],"class_list":["post-20358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alabama","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-dining","tag-alabama-food","tag-alabama-grocery-stores","tag-alabama-restaurants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117298786664992265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}