East Texas Food Bank gives away free food every first Wednesday of month

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – Inflation is growing the variety of individuals in want of assist with groceries for his or her households and themselves.

Ricky Garner is the Pastor at Bethel Bible Church’s Hope campus, and so they have partnered with the East Texas Meals Financial institution to assist meet that want of their neighborhood.

“It simply so occurs that the meals financial institution was type of doing the identical factor, seeing the identical want, so that they reached out to us just a little over a 12 months in the past desirous to know if we’d accomplice with them,” says Ricky Garner.

Since beginning this partnership, Garner says that they now serve 250 to 300 households on the primary Wednesday of each month.

“No necessities, no ID, no something required. Simply drive up decide up the meals and go,” says Garner.

All it’s a must to do is drive into the parking zone and inform a volunteer how many individuals you want meals for.

Garner says because of inflation and the rising price of meals he’s seeing a rise in automobiles lining as much as obtain meals.

“Each month we see a large number of people who line up pretty early, effectively earlier than we get began, to come back and get the meals,” says Garner.

The East Texas Meals Financial institution provides a unique number of meals relying on the season and the time of 12 months.

“I do know we’ve candy potatoes we’ve acquired white potatoes we’ve acquired a lot of good cabbages so that sort if stuff. It’s good house cooking; you’ll be able to take it and make dish out of it,” says Jud Bailiff.

Jud Bailiff is a volunteer and a member of The Bethel Bible Church.

Garner mentions that there is no such thing as a restrict to how a lot meals one automotive can obtain.

The meals drive happens at Bethel Bible’s Hope Campus on the primary Wednesday of each month from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. The church is situated at 504 West thirty second Avenue in Tyler.

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