Snyder’s First United Methodist Church (FUMC) is reaching out to the community by serving Sunday meals for families that rely on school meals.
Church member Gina Jones said that because schools do not serve meals on Sunday, many students go a full day before receiving a school-provided meal on Monday.
“They’re starving by the time they get their Monday morning meal, because they haven’t had hardly anything to eat on Sunday,” she said. “They still get lunch on Saturday, but they don’t get supper on Saturday or anything Sunday. That’s why we chose that day.”
Jones said that she hoped the church will be able to reach families that wouldn’t otherwise get a meal on Sunday.
“There are so many people that normally work and make money daily that can’t work now, so that affects a lot of people,” she said.
Volunteers serve casserole dishes rather than individual plates, and will provide one per car.
“We’re hoping we can do about 60 casseroles, so 60 families,” Jones said. “We’ll start at noon, and it’ll just be until we run out of food. We just don’t know how many people we’re going to be serving.”
The meals will be distributed via a drive-thru system, and the church will have volunteers to direct drivers away from College Ave.
Jones said that volunteers hope to continue to offer the casseroles weekly, although they may be forced to stop if Scurry County officials confirm a case of COVID-19.
“FUMC hasn’t gotten to help out with this sort of thing yet,” she said.
“We’ve had to close down the private school and church. The only thing still open is the daycare. But God will bring good out of all things, and this is one of the things He does to bring out the good.”
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