Amid nation’s longest government shutdown, church’s food pantry sees hundreds needing help
Cars snake around the parking lot of Lindenwood Christian Church on Union Avenue to line up for donations of food Saturday morning, Nov. 8. Some cars began to line up late Friday night. (Greg Campbell/Special to The Daily Memphian)
“We have to eat,” one person in line at the mobile food pantry said. “We feel horrible because we have a government that’s not supplying our needs. And that’s what they were elected for.”
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Lindenwood Christian Church SNAP hunger federal shutdownJody Callahan
Jody Callahan graduated with degrees in journalism and economics from what is now known as the University of Memphis. He has covered news in Memphis for more than 25 years.
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