Yes. And who is deciding who “needs” it.
We have a weekly food distribution effort at our local church.
Have for a long time.
great!
I wish all churches (or at least more of them) would distribute/deliver food
some do a great job of it!
some .. not. or even not at all.
we have a nice friend in need in Tennessee who we try to help but it is a distance so we are not there to see, monitor....and she’s fainted and had to be taken to hospital emergency from malnutrition. she calls all the churches and food pantry places. sometimes they offer some help. sometimes, though, when she manages to get there (maybe a 4 or 5 mile walk, as she doesn’t drive) they tell her no or that they “ran out” (this,after they promised to give her food if she could come fetch it)
as difficult as it is to provide and run a food pantry, it is only more difficult to deliver needed groceries to people who cannot pick it up (requires at least a volunteer driver and car...)
so even with all the welfare program giveaways AND churches that do care, there are still some folks in need. I have personally called her local welfare office and been told that when people receive almost anything from sociable insecurity disability, the state of Tennessee cuts off its local welfare (there are cut off amounts but they are too low to enable enough food, alas!)
so we have another order sent in is about all we can do from a distance.
blessings to all the churches who do help people in need!