Operation Dry Bottoms: One Church’s Response to a Community in Need

Drive down Steubenville Avenue in the heart of Cambridge, Ohio, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. any final Friday of the month, and you’ll likely see young moms and their babies entering St. John’s Episcopal Church. Occasionally, you’ll see dads with their kids in tow.

They are there to take part in one of the church’s most important and enduring missions, Operation Dry Bottoms (ODB), a free diaper distribution program for some of the area’s most vulnerable citizens.