{"id":63464,"date":"2025-11-24T22:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63464\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:37:18","slug":"food-banks-urgently-request-donations-and-volunteers-amidst-shutdown-and-holiday-demand-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63464\/","title":{"rendered":"Food banks urgently request donations and volunteers amidst shutdown and holiday demand | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW217396739 BCX0\">James\u00a0Sanderson, who serves as both the Evangelism Minister at the Brown Street Church of Christ and as the Chaplain for the Waxahachie Police Department, explained the significance of charity in Christian terms: \u201cBeing in these two unique positions, I have a first-hand picture of the needs our community goes through when hard times befall them. The church and the police department work closely together to help those in need, and we have seen our numbers more than double since the shutdown. In times like this, I encourage all believers to reflect on scripture. In Matthew 25, Jesus foretells that the righteous will ask, \u2018Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink?\u2019 Then, the Lord will answer them, \u2018Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.\u2019 As Proverbs 3:9 commands, \u2018Honor the Lord with your possessions and with the\u00a0first fruits\u00a0of all your increase.\u2019 Thank you so very much for all the agencies and individuals that help us supply this food!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James\u00a0Sanderson, who serves as both the Evangelism Minister at the Brown Street Church of Christ and as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[33211,66,223,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-63464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-community_cares","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63464","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=63464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}