Overview
- Five semitrucks carrying roughly 20 tons each left the Bishops’ Central Storehouse on Nov. 13 bound for food banks in Eugene, Oregon; Lonoke, Arkansas; Columbia, Missouri; Texas City, Texas; and Grand Blanc, Michigan.
- The church plans to deliver 250 truckloads, each about 40,000 pounds of shelf-stable food, to 250 food banks across all 50 states over the coming year as part of the America250 commemoration.
- America250 chair Rosie Rios joined church leaders for the announcement, which frames the campaign as a unity-focused service initiative tied to the nation’s 250th anniversary.
- Organizers will use the JustServe platform to mobilize volunteers nationwide and enlist FamilySearch to share community stories connected to the anniversary effort.
- Church leaders said canneries and processing plants were ordered to run at capacity after the recent shutdown’s food-stamp interruption, with excess production directed to donation through the storehouse network.