Local church experiences increase in demand for soup kitchen, food pantry items
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A local church is seeing an increase in demand for food from the community.
Brazil's first united methodist church serves a free meal each wednesday.
The church is continuing to offer this opportunity during the covid-19 pandemic.
Organizers tell us the demand grows each week.
News 10's tilly marlatt brings us more on how the church is preparing to meet the needs of the community.
Pk} brazil's first united methodist church has been offering something's cooking for years.
This is a free meal provided every wednesday to the community.
"you know, they've been serving our community for quite a while so when this pandemic came you know it was just a great opportunity for them to step up and expand their services and to reach more people."
(debbie mcninch, volunteer) in light of covid-19, the meal is now served in a drive-thru style approach.
The meal normally feeds between 50-75 people.
In recent weeks, those numbers have doubled.
"even last week we served about 172 people, and so there is just quite a need, and it just seems to be expanding and growing each week."
Groceries are also available for pick-up during this meal time.
"this is just a great way to help people who have found themselves maybe in a situation where they just need a little extra something right now."
Donations from the church congregation normally fund the program.
Due to the increase in need, the program applied for a grant from the united way's wabash valley covid-19 emergency relief fund.
The church received five thousand dollars.
"without that, it would have been very hard to continue to meet the need at the level we're meeting it at."
The funding will support the church's work in the coming weeks.
Reporting in brazil, tilly marlatt, news 10.
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