They serve thousands of meals each week to community members in need. Now, northside-based nonprofit GAP Ministries is closing in on a fundraising goal to complete a major kitchen expansion.
“When you see a shovel on the ground and you can see the holes in the ground for the plumbing, I’m just super excited,” Gap Ministries executive chef John Hohn tells me.
And Hohn should be excited: By November, he’ll be in a brand-new kitchen on the GAP Ministries northside campus, with the ability to produce meals for those in need in the Tucson community.
Construction is now underway .
“We’re really excited to get this space up and running because our kitchen is chomping at the bits to really get food into the community,” says Jason Ayers, director of communications at GAP Ministries.
“We want to make sure kids are served. We want to make sure elderly have meals. We want to make sure families who are desperate for food get that opportunity.”
GAP Ministries has seen food insecurity grow in Tucson in recent years. As the nonprofit approaches its 25th anniversary , they’re building a much larger kitchen to handle the need.