Hundreds of cars lined up, one by one, Tuesday afternoon for the Feeding America West Michigan food distribution.
It was organized by the Wellspring Community Church and the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Escanaba.
“There’s a lot of hurting people in our community,” Wellspring Pastor Paul Culbertson told the Radio Results Network. “We’ve been running the resource center out of the church, and it just unfolded to over 60 volunteers here today, helping an amazing amount of families. It’s just been beautiful to see our community come together.”
People of all ages drove up to the large semi truck in a single file line that stretched all around the perimeter of the Delta Plaza Mall for two hours to receive the boxes of food. There were some 60 volunteers on hand directing people to the front of the old ShopKo store entrance on a sunny but cold, windy afternoon.
Feeding West America came up from the Grand Rapids suburb of Comstock Park to deliver the food boxes which includes fruit vegetables juice and other staples.
“Feeding America has been a blessing,” Culbertson said. “They reached out and said, hey, we have the food, can you guys help with location and volunteers? We were able to do that on our end. So it’s been a huge blessing to be a partner with them and having them come up to the U.P., to a place where we’re rural and people are scattered. We’re very thankful for their partnership.”
It’s estimated that around 1,000 people got food during the distribution.
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