{"id":325375,"date":"2026-05-21T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325375\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:10:27","slug":"burrito-brothers-franciscan-friars-ministry-opens-new-oakland-food-truck-to-feed-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325375\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Burrito Brothers&#8217;: Franciscan Friars ministry opens new Oakland food truck to feed homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A religious community group has launched a new food truck aimed at feeding people experiencing homelessness in Oakland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Franciscan Friars of the Renewal recently started the project, which they&#8217;re calling &#8220;The Burrito Brothers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Father Daniel Williamson says the goal is to offer dignity and care through fresh, homemade meals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We try to do something beautiful for the people, show them they have dignity and we care about them. So we try to make a nice meal. Home-cooked burritos, nachos, lemonade, whatever they want. And it&#8217;s just to help them know we&#8217;re here for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ministry began preparing fresh food every Tuesday and Thursday a couple of weeks ago. Volunteers visit different encampments and streets each day, bringing meals directly to people in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group says the effort is rooted in Christianity&#8217;s call to feed the hungry and care for those on the margins.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/131c44567cfd550c1c93df1368fb6896.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re on the ABC7 News app, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here to watch live;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here to watch live&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here to watch live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A religious community group has launched a new food truck aimed at feeding people experiencing homelessness in Oakland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[135351,23384,135350,112105,143,145,144,135352],"class_list":["post-325375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-father-daniel-williamson","tag-food-truck","tag-franciscan-friars","tag-fresh-food","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-religious-community-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}