Bags of food are everywhere! They are stacked, piled, and all jumbled up.... filled to the brim with great food! It was almost difficult to walk in there until yesterday afternoon. The Postal Workers and our many volunteers have done an awesome job gathering food for the CFC. The citizens of Blount county have once again donated from their cabinets and hearts. The shelves were getting empty and now they are full once again... at least for the moment. Volunteers are busily reporting daily to sort, shelve and say thanks for the generous donations of food. Each food drive has a personality all it's own and the theme of this drive is "dry food". Dry food consists of all those pastas, rice, dried beans, jellos, oatmeal, etc. items that have a great shelf life and are loved by our clients! We are thrilled to see that soup has made a return to our shelves.... missing for several weeks. Once again we have an ample supply of tuna and even cereal (another dry item). That is the good news! Grateful to the postal service (in every configuration) - absolutely! Grateful to all the volunteers that followed postal workers (letter carriers) around to pick up food and bring it to the CFC - absolutely. Simply overwhelmed.... that is a great description.
The other side of the story is that our client base is growing by leaps and bounds. More than 25 new clients signed up in the last two operating days and with the cost of gas and food it is almost certain that this trend will continue. Will the demand exceed our ability to help feed the hungry? That can only be answered by this great community..... will the community continue to support and provide for the needs of others? We believe our mission will continue and Blount County will continue to step up to the challenge.
There is more to the story.... we will have more details including the total weight from the food drive in an upcoming blog..... once again the blessings keep coming! Thanks be to God!
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