On one of the cold days of winter this year, Des Moines Area Religious Council’s new CEO, Kathy Underhill, whose office is not far from the food pantry, heard the distinct sound of a newborn crying.
She went out to the pantry and there was a family with a newborn baby that had been born four or five days prior, premature.
“So just this tiny, beautiful baby,” Underhill said. “And the adults were looking for formula and diapers and just very basic needs for themselves and the baby, and so you think about putting yourself in that place of having a new baby and needing that kind of support.”…