- December 16, 2025
Second Harvest North Florida will help deliver Christmas cheer to the residents of Mondex — a small unincorporated Flagler County community north of Daytona Beach — on Wednesday, Dec. 21. The cheer will come in the form of clean drinking water, something the community hasn’t enjoyed in months.
Trucks from Second Harvest will deliver more than 420,000 pounds of bottled water to residents in a series of shipments that will continue over the next four months. The purpose of the distribution is to provide immediate relief for residents as county officials work to improve the area’s water quality.
This week’s delivery will provide 84,042 pounds of water — which is 72,576 individual 16.9-ounce bottles.
Once completed, 362,880 individual bottles of water will have been distributed. According to 2009 records, the area is home to approximately 2,000 residents.
Grace Tabernacle Ministries will coordinate the water distribution, something the Palm Coast church has done regularly over the past year as supplies allowed. The church helped identify the problem in 2010 and has worked closely with the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates and County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin to begin creating possible solutions.
Grace Tabernacle is a member agency of Second Harvest North Florida, which led to the food bank’s decision to contribute resources to the project.
