The main contribution for There's Hope for the Hungry can be identified by its name - it gives hope for those who can't get food on their own.
"For 2010 we gave away 417,000 pounds of food. We fed over 65,000 people," said Patty Redding, who works closely with Dr. Richard Lee, president of There's Hope Ministries.
Redding said what sets the organization apart from others is its mobility.
"We're not a grocery store, we're not a food bank where people come to us and try and get food. We go to them. We go to where their need is."
There's Hope for the Hungry takes volunteers who help pack up 18-wheelers full of food, and take them to different communities.
"We've just got so many testimonies from people that say, 'You have saved my life. You have given us food,'" said Redding.
Redding said the life-blood of the organization comes from those volunteers that pack the food into the boxes and onto the trucks, and they'll be in action this Saturday as part of With A Servant's Heart.
"Taking the cans, the non-perishable goods, putting them in the boxes, packing those boxes so that our trucks will be ready to roll out on Monday morning."
And thanks to There's Hope for the Hungry, the trucks have been rolling to the hungry for almost eight years.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of reports this week profiling some of the non-profit agencies tapped to participate in "With A Servant's Heart.")
(Photo courtesy thereshopeforthehungry.org)
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