LEXINGTON, S.C. — A Lexington church will be hosting "Food From the Heart," at 12 local grocery stores on Saturday, March 16.
Volunteers from Northside Baptist Church will be outside stores collecting items to benefit Harvest Hope Food Bank. As you go into the store, you will receive a red bag fill up and a list of items the food bank needs. As you leave the store, you can return the filled up red bag to a volunteer.
"We all know what inflation has done to families and how hard its become, and so there's hunger, there's a need, and we want to meet that need," said Northside Baptist Church's Pastor of Ministry and Missions Steve Allen in an interview on 'News19 This Morning.' "We are Christ followers and He really set the example."
They will be collecting items at the following stores:
- Walmart at 7520 Garners Ferry Road, Columbia
- Walmart at 1780 South Lake Drive, Lexington
- Walmart at 5556 Sunset Boulevard, Lexington
- Walmart at 5420 Forest Drive, Columbia
- Walmart at 360 Harbison Boulevard, Columbia
- Walmart at 321 Killian Road, Columbia
- Walmart at 10060 Two Notch Road, Columbia
- Walmart Neighborhood Store at 1019 Old Barnwell Road, West Columbia
- Walmart at 1180 Dutch Fork Road, Irmo
- Walmart at 115 East Church Street, Leesville
- Walmart Neighborhood Store at 1355 Knox Abbott Drive, Cayce
- Kroger at 7467 St. Andrews Road, Irmo
Some of the items Harvest Hope suggests to donate include canned goods, rice, beans, diapers, baby food, and other items. The bags collected will be taken to the food bank for distribution to local food pantries and soup kitchens in the Midlands.
According to Harvest Hope, the food drive has collected 1,363,355 pounds of food in the 11 previous food drives. The last drive raised 87,639 pounds of food.