Wesley House Food Pick Up

As a result of the pandemic some families have dealt with significant financial holds; the Wesley House Community Center has stepped up to help supply families with weekly food drives.

The Wesley House Community Center is having a drive-by food

pick up. The center has this food pick every Wednesday of the month that allows

For anyone in the community to come by and pick up a bag filled with produce,

meats, and canned goods.

Executive Director, Rev. David Schutltz, explained what the community centers' goal is when doing in the food drive.

"The goal that we have is to provide a full food bag a good

variety of food so that there are meat products, vegetables, can product, fresh

fruit, dairy, and cheese products. Those things. That’s the goal and sometimes

it depends on what’s available.”

“It helps a lot of these elderly people from getting out in

the community and shopping. A lot of our customers are the elderly and they’re the

ones that I think are trying to out from getting sick, so it supplies them with

food, it keeps them out of the public, just gives us a chance to help them out”, said volunteer Andy Hodges.

In response to the coronavirus, Wesley House has doubled

how many food bags they give out; last month increasing to about 700 bags

being distributed. With that increase, the demand for food and donations has

also risen.

“Not only for families. Mothers and children. One of the

things we’ve seen with the coronavirus is an increase in the elderly that are

coming in for food bags. Those who go to the store are difficult. It’s a

challenge for them to get out, the mask, be among the public, and the other

thing is that they're on a fixed income so the prices have all gone up so

they're limited so therefore we’re able to supplement their monthly food.”

On Wednesday, today, we’re looking to distribute. I’m sure

we’ll distribute well over 300 and some bags.”- Rev. David Schutltz

The Wesley House Community center holds this drive every

Wednesday starting at 1 o’clock. To volunteer call the center at 601-485- 4736

or visit the webpage at https://wesleyhousemeridian.org/