HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — CBN’s Helping the Home Front has seen a massive surge in local families seeking food assistance in the wake of the recent government shutdown, and it has big plans to fill in the gaps.
The Virginia Beach nonprofit that normally delivers boxes to around 200 active-duty military families will be feeding families feasts this Thanksgiving, distributing 1,400 boxes to 700 military families Thursday at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, more than double their usual outreach. It is working out of its Operation Blessing warehouse in Chesapeake to make it all happen.
“We’re in a huge military town, and just like any other family that is not, maybe, on the higher end of income, they run out of money,” said Mary Allsbrook, director of Military Outreach & Community Relations for the Christian Broadcasting Network. “They have disasters that come up, a crisis that comes up, something that any of the rest of us would have to deal with.”…