Story by Alicia Tucker
Adventist Community Services of Greater Washington (ACSGW) in collaboration with several Seventh-day Adventist Churches in Silver Spring and Takoma Park, Md., and Montgomery County Government will hold a food distribution at Takoma Academy (8120 Carroll Ave.) this Friday from 3-6:00 pm.
The grab-n-go, drive-through style distribution was organized to help families who are suffering from food insecurity due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Several drive-thru distributions have already been held since the onset of COVID at individual Seventh-day Adventist churches. In addition, food is distributed M-Thurs at the ACSGW Center on Sligo Avenue.
“Serving food insecure families has increased more than five-fold since April,” says Ken Flemmer, Executive Director of ACSGW. Last week alone, 24,000 lbs. of food was distributed at the Center.