{"id":85866,"date":"2025-12-12T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/85866\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:14:26","slug":"dream-center-feeding-lubbock-families-through-food-bank-partnership-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/85866\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Center feeding Lubbock families through food bank partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Every Saturday morning, dozens of grocery bags go out the door at <a href=\"https:\/\/lubbockdreamcenter.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/lubbockdreamcenter.org\/\">Lubbock\u2019s Dream Center <\/a>as part of a food program that has served Hub City families for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 100 families use the center\u2019s food program weekly, according to Compassion Minister Cynthia Botello. That number keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cEspecially during the holiday season, and because of what happened recently with the government shutdown and the SNAP program being affected. Our numbers did climb,\u201d Botello said.<\/p>\n<p>Growing demand drives constant restocking<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The center constantly restocks to meet growing demand. Since 2010, the Dream Center has given away more than $1.7 million in food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Botello says A partnership with the South Plains Food Bank helps make it possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe food bank has been a tremendous help to us and our partnership with them, we feel like, is very strong. They know that we do serve a lot of people, so they\u2019re always willing to help us in so many ways,\u201d Botello said.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly distribution serves around 130 families<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That partnership comes to life at the Dream Center every Saturday at 8 a.m. The center hands out around 130 grocery bags every week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Each family gets shelf-stable items, cold food and canned goods. Rice, beans and pasta are often the staple items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For those who need help cooking with these items, the center offers free cooking demos every Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Botello said the Dream Center plans to expand its partnership with the food bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe want people to feel valued. We want them to feel respected. We want them to feel seen,\u201d Botello said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Every Saturday morning, dozens of grocery bags go out the door at Lubbock\u2019s Dream&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40739,40740,168,170,169,40742,15529,40741],"class_list":["post-85866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-dream-center-lubbock","tag-food-assistance-program","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-snap-program-impact","tag-south-plains-food-bank","tag-weekly-grocery-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85866","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=85866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}