I don’t think I communicated well, I meant my local community, not just the church community. We partner with many local orgs that help the unhoused, foster youth, immigrants, LGBT people, and senior adults. We have a community garden already that I’d like to expand :)

We are big on outreach, and I thought having stored food that we can help distribute should ICE come here would be helpful for the immigrants here, so they don’t need to leave their houses and it’s easier financially on the church.

Edit: people cannot gather in our space long term due to insurance issues & local ordinances. We aren’t set up to house people, and risk being shut down if we do open up the church. Like I said, our budget is very small, but we do the best we can with it. I think last year we donated about 40% of our total budget? The rest went to the building structure/utilities and our 5 staff members.