The planets align as Mohrs donate Saturn to Love Center

The Love Center Food Pantry has been blessed over the years by many donations of all kinds of food, meat from the Holmes County Fair, monetary donations and walk-in freezers, but on Wednesday, August 24, the Love Center received a donation that was absolutely out of this world.Doug and Teri Mohr decided that the 1997 Saturn station wagon they had owned for years would better serve the Love Center’s needs than their own, and donated the car to the food pantry.The wagon, which had been faithful to the Mohrs as they traveled around the Midwest watching their daughter Melissa play volleyball for Bowling Green University for four years, is in immaculate shape for an older vehicle, but Doug Mohr said that even though the family could have continued to drive the station wagon, it was an easy decision to gift the car to the Love Center.“We felt that the car would be worth a lot more to them than it would be to us at this point,” said Mohr.The couple talked it over, and Teri, who volunteers every week at the Love Center, spoke to Love Center director Mark Rohrer to see if the pantry could use the vehicle. It soon became apparent that there was a need for a smaller vehicle to make local runs in and around Millersburg, and even up to Akron at times. The vehicle will be an asset to the food pantry, allowing them to save on gasoline and relieving volunteers from the burden of driving their own vehicles to meetings.“This is going to be such a wonderful blessing for us,” said Rohrer. “We will definitely use it for smaller pick-ups around the area, like when we go pick up local farmers’ produce where a large box truck would be overkill. We can also use it to attend agency meetings, and to make trips to the local grocery stores which have food for us to pick up. It will in a sense become the perfect company car.”Rohrer said that people like the Mohrs are the reason why the Love Center continues to do such a wonderful outreach ministry into the local community. Currently the food pantry has reached thousands of families each year, and continues to serve a crucial role in meeting the needs of local families who are struggling financially and need help providing food for the table.