US Post Office Food Drive

Saturday, May 11 was the day that the US Postal Office workers collected shelf-stable food from customers across the country (https://about.usps.com/corporate-social-responsibility/nalc-food-drive.htm). Crisis Ministries, the food pantry where I volunteer on Tuesdays, was one of the recipient sites for donations from Irving, TX, and I went in to help as I could.

Thankfully, there were a number of young folks who were there to help out...

Three guys loaded bags and boxes from the Post Office onto their pickup trucks and drove them to the front of the Crisis Ministries location, where many hands helped to bring them inside the building...

We stacked the bags and boxes in one area in the center, and then everyone got busy sorting them into storage boxes.

Dry goods were sorted into boxes on a table...

Canned goods went into blue bins that were labeled, inventoried, and then put onto shelves for use in the coming weeks and months as clients come to receive food from Crisis Ministries.

We were thankful to receive this donation of items that we will be able to distribute to needy families in the Irving area!