JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Bethany Baptist Church is stepping up to help the community during tough times. <\/p>\n
With federal food stamps on hold due to the government shutdown, the church is hosting a weeklong event to serve hot meals for those in need.<\/p>\n
The event, called \u201cCaring In Crisis – A Jacksonville Community Feeding,\u201d runs from Monday through Friday, November 17\u201320, at 401 Stockton Street. <\/p>\n
Organizers say they are accepting both food and monetary donations. <\/p>\n
Those who can\u2019t make it in person can still help by contributing or volunteering. <\/p>\n
To get involved, call 904-258-2355 or email stan_mcallister@hotmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to make sure no one goes hungry,\u201d Stanley McAllister Jr. from Lighthouse International Ministries said. \u201cCome join us or help spread the word.\u201d<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Bethany Baptist Church is stepping up to help the community during tough times. With federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32127,32128,32133,116,32129,118,117,6106,32130,32131,32132,13598],"class_list":["post-50650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-baptist-church-buildings-florida-jacksonville","tag-churches-synagogues","tag-george-lansing","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fla","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jr","tag-lance-taylor","tag-photograph-collections-florida-jacksonville","tag-photographers-florida-jacksonville","tag-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}