GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Local faith leaders will be fasting in solidarity with those who rely on SNAP benefits, they announced Monday.
They gathered at Calder Plaza in Grand Rapids to announce the interfaith fast.
“Perhaps none of us thought that we would be at a juncture where federal funding for food assistance would have stopped because of a government shutdown,” said Rev. Lynette Sparks with Westminster Presbyterian Church, who introduced the fast. “We are afraid that the size of the food deficit caused by the lack of SNAP funding in our community is simply too large to be filled by private action or by state or city action…