- December 4, 2025
Epic Church of Palm Coast is holding a food drive.
The church has been holding this food drive for over a decade in the months of February and August. The food is given to Grace Community Food Pantry, specifically for their backpack program. This program helps children in our local schools be able to eat over the weekend, when the schools are not able to provide meals for them.
The director of the food drive, Ricky Coyne, shed some light onto why Epic Church does this.
“We are called to love and serve everybody," he said.
Coyne said he feels that a lot of people feel estranged from the faith-based community for various reasons, but if they could see the services provided by the local churches, then maybe that perception can be changed.
As of Aug. 25, the church has surpassed its goal of 4,600 pounds of food.
Want to help? Non-perishable food items may be donated at the Epic Church office at 160 Cypress Pointe Parkway, Suite C107 from Monday to Thursday, or on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Buddy Taylor Middle School, located at 4500 Belle Terre Parkway.
Pastor Seth Tweeddale from Grace Community Church in Ormond Beach believes that “pastors have influence in the lives of their people."
This belief has encouraged him to hold a Pastor Summit on Sept. 11, in which he hopes pastors from all sects will come together to learn how to be involved in showing the love of Christ and improve the community.
Tweeddale would also like to “develop relationships with government…to have a pipeline in place” in order to support and pray for those in authority.
To register, visit http://bit.ly/4lUW3JO.
