By: Blake McCall & Jordan Mcdonald, Website contributors | March 1, 2023
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The city of Carson services its community by providing a resourceful food bank. Carson Hope Church, across the street from Carson High School, has a food pantry that provides for residents every Thursday from 11 AM to 4 PM.
The Carson Hope Church feeds hundreds of people every week. They do this to help less fortunate families that need some support.
¨They feed about 400 people a week, whatever they need. It is to supply people that don't have the means to buy food,¨ said Pastor John of Carson Hope Church.
There is a particular population that needs the extra assistance that the church provides.
¨Well, when we came we saw that there were a lot of older people and needy people and we asked well what we could do to help them,” Pastor John said. “When we started, we started at Carson High School [with] 9 and now we have family 400 families.¨
The church gets its food and other supples from the LA Food Bank. The food bank delivers the food to the church for free.
¨The LA food bank provides the food and delivers but sometimes I go up to 41st first Street to pick up some extra stuff,¨said Pastor John.
Carson Hope Church receives the food on Wednesday's by a truck and sets up on the same day.
Donations are one of the most important aspects of the program.
¨Its comes from the regional food at the LA Food Bank and sometimes it come form donating from different venders and Hope chapels to the church or different people will come up there,¨ said by Heart.
Lots of volunteers come to help put food away in freezers and unpack food food bank.
¨The food is being held in freezers and refrigerators. Some [through donations] to the church and some we bought and got some from the LA Food Bank,¨said pastor John.