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DF-W-51 DUG · THE COUNTY GUIDE (2025), THE IRS RECORD, THE KOONTZ LAKE ACCOUNT
The audit carried the pantry as a delta — unseated and undated in the banked text; the record now seats it, dates it, and follows it to the present distribution day. Christian Community Pantry Inc stands at 625 Roosevelt Road, Walkerton — on the town's main street, in the commercial heart — and its federal record opens in April 2008, when its tax-exempt status was ruled (post-office box 145, Walkerton; charitable organization, food pantries class; assets carried at $100,000 and above in the registry summaries). Its own era-account, carried in the Koontz Lake Association's newsletter of about 2013, gives the founding form: a consortium of local churches, faith-based organizations, area schools, businesses, and individuals — the town's charity organized as a coalition, not a congregation — "founded over twenty-five years ago" by that printing, which dates the founding to about 1988; serving Walkerton, North Liberty, and the surrounding areas, five townships in four counties in all; feeding about 150 families a month, more than 500 individuals; aimed deliberately at the end of the month, when money runs out, with distributions on the fourth Tuesday; working with the Food Bank of Northern Indiana; and fed in turn by the town, its largest drive the Postal Food Drive each May. The present state prints from the freshest county record: the St. Joseph County Food Pantry Guide (updated October 29, 2025) lists "Christian Community FP, 625 Roosevelt Rd, Walkerton — 3rd Tue 11:30a–1:30p & 5:30–6:45p; eligibility 46574/Walkerton," with the county guide's phone, 574-586-9210 (an older listing carries 574-586-3078). Two transitions print as transitions: the distribution day moved from the fourth Tuesday of the 2013 account to the third Tuesday of the 2025 guide, and the eligibility prints as the postal area — 46574, wider than the town, as a pantry's mercy properly is, and labeled postal here as everywhere in this build. The pantry is active in 2026: the town's own organized charity, interchurch from birth, still handing out food on Roosevelt Road on the third Tuesday.
Principal sources: St. Joseph County Food Pantry Guide (updated October 29, 2025); IRS exempt-organizations record (ruling April 2008); Koontz Lake Association newsletter, c. 2013 (the founding account).