{"id":399562,"date":"2026-08-06T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399562\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:04:08","slug":"saint-francis-launches-emergency-closet-to-help-support-lubbock-foster-and-reunifying-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399562\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis launches emergency closet to help support Lubbock foster and reunifying families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Saint Francis Ministries is collecting food and hygiene products to stock up its brand-new emergency needs closet, designed to support local foster children and reunifying families during after-hours crises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For many case workers and families, emergency situations often happen after hours. The emergency closet will allow caseworks to grab non-perishable foods, hygiene items, diapers and other things for families who may need these resources to hold them over in a crisis situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The drive is ongoing, and Saint Francis is currently accepting donations of key emergency items. High-priority needs include:<\/p>\n<p>Non-perishable food items\u00a0(canned goods, easy-to-prep meals, snacks)Hygiene products\u00a0(shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant)Baby essentials\u00a0(diapers, wipes, baby food)Other emergency essentials<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The non-profit urges community members to use its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/35P6MIJWLTTXQ?ref_=wl_share&amp;content_source=fb&amp;fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEcnRyoCasd3wIi1SfTffmtsVnIhWRslH_dkCalpP6fquYou0eAfbODcUaOwg&amp;channel_type=fb&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawThicFwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMWV3T3R3WVFlNVpLRFlua2ZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe0cIuxhz9lGwO30NN1En9rOUnG6YbiPlb9uP8w_Zl0uNCgZkWpCizDaJIRJo_aem_G8Pg2q9wurRp2eAnj6kJbA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/35P6MIJWLTTXQ?ref_=wl_share&amp;content_source=fb&amp;fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEcnRyoCasd3wIi1SfTffmtsVnIhWRslH_dkCalpP6fquYou0eAfbODcUaOwg&amp;channel_type=fb&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawThicFwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMWV3T3R3WVFlNVpLRFlua2ZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe0cIuxhz9lGwO30NN1En9rOUnG6YbiPlb9uP8w_Zl0uNCgZkWpCizDaJIRJo_aem_G8Pg2q9wurRp2eAnj6kJbA\">Amazon wish list<\/a> to help stock its closet. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Saint Francis Ministries is collecting food and hygiene products to stock up its brand-new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[447,64,62387,319,251,168,170,169,7295,140238],"class_list":["post-399562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-community","tag-events","tag-foster-families","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-non-profit","tag-saint-francis-ministries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}