SADDLEBACK CHURCH’S FOOD BANK

June 19, 2022

On Saturday, June 18th of 2022, the first division food bank was held at Savanna High School, from 8am to 12pm. Our division has partnered up with the Saddleback Church to help distribute food and supplies. It happened to be super humid that day and the funny thing is that most of the volunteers were wearing black. Anyhow, volunteers from division 30 south all showed up around 8am for the check-in with Ryan Dang, our division service project coordinator. After the check-in was an announcement from the adults, who created the event; once the announcement was finished, we all received a small bible from the church and went to the workstations that we chose. My friend Yumeih, who is the technician for Savanna Key club, and I went to the pet food station for our first pick. After being at this station for about 30 minutes, we were out of all the dog and cat food, so Yumeih and I decided that we would move to another station to help out the others. That is when we chose to pass out the chargers and binder clips, people were very nice to us when they received their supplies, but after these supplies ran out, we went to help the station next to us to pass out the milk and eggs. Around 11am, the adults of this event offered free snow cones for all the volunteers. I chose blue raspberry and grape flavors, while Yumeih chose blue raspberry and cherry flavor. Oh man, how she loved it so much that she went for second and I stayed with only one snow cone. When we finished our snow cones was when the food bank had almost come to an end. We walked around the place for a bit to see what food or supplies were left, luckily the ladies were so generous, so she allowed both of us to take some bread home. Overall, I’d say that this was an amazing and fun event. I felt really good that I got to participate in this and help pass out food and supplies to those in need.