The Lutheran Church in Lehighton operates a food bank every Tuesday. People leave with bags and boxes of nutritious food. I don’t know exactly how much each person is allocated, but it seems substantial.
The church also operates a thrift store that sells dishes, clothes, toys, shoes, and everything else you would expect a thrift store to offer. That helps to pay for the food bank.
A small army of women (and a few men) are operating the cash register, pricing items dropped off, filling boxes with food, sorting food donations, organizing merchandise, keeping records, and welcoming the people coming in for the food. Various analogies come to mind, including bee hive and ant hill.
I go in about once a month to haul away their scrap metal. Everybody is pleasant, helpful, and kind. I never leave without feeling better than when I arrived.
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