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tornado destroyed the only food pantry in Magoffin County in 2012, and church member Ladale Stephens would say that was when God provided an opportunity for Water into Wine Food Pantry to fill the void.
“I told them that our small church just wasn’t big enough for the vision that God had given me,” Stephens said. The long-time resident of Salyersville, Ky. had for many years reminded her church, Lakefront Church of God, that God had more in store for them. When the old Middle Fork Elementary School came up for sale, she knew it was time for the church to trust in God’s vision for their future. Lakefront Church of God relocated to the renovated space in 2012. Its outreach ministries grew to include a health clinic, thrift store, job training center, as well as the Water into Wine Food Pantry. “Magoffin County is among the poorest counties in the country,” said Val Inzer, director of the food pantry. “When the only food pantry in the county was destroyed,
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