This month's food distribution was a huge success! It was a combined effort headed up by one of the local churches, along with donations from Pastor Andy and some local kids who spent a day picking apples, a youth group in Boise who did a can food drive, and a semi-truck full of fresh and frozen food.
We estimated it was about 12,000 pounds of food, which pretty much filled up the room where we did the food distribution.
It was rather over-whelming to sort it all, but we had lots of volunteers.
140 families came and were each given about 2 boxes of food. In a community where people are choosing between paying electric bills or buying propane, it is a huge blessing for them to have food for their families.
We also received some random donations, such as a bunch of clothes...
I also heard there are 70 cords of wood to be donated next week. In case you are wondering 2 cords of wood fit in the back of a pick-up truck. A couple years ago we split 18 cords of wood over the course of 2 months...it was a lot of wood...
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