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family for several days) are passed Wanda Brunson, Mrs.
out in a drive-through format. Thomas’s assistant,
Volunteers pack the bags and then is filling in until the
meet the cars coming through. The Board of 14 members
bags include Scripture cards and finds a replacement.
Christian devotionals, as people are But lots of people are
fed physically and spiritually. The still being fed and
result is that, rather than feeding a clothed and mentored.
few hundred people individually, This ministry, like
1500-1700 people are being fed many other businesses,
weekly via family-sized bags of has been hit hard. But
food. the vision and the
passion have not died,
• The clothing ministry is still and the needs are still
available. People can still access certainly there.
it but by appointment only, one “inherited” her four very small
person at a time. The focus shifted There are still multiple volunteer nieces and nephews (ages 3 weeks
more to those who need clothing positions – for preparing and to 4 years), and she had to begin
for interviews and work. sorting in the clothing ministry, coming in for food. She wept with
for filling bags of food, for meeting gratefulness, refusing to take more
• Parts of the medical end of the cars and giving out the food bags, than she needed for just that week.
outreach were able to transition to for praying for people as they drive A change in circumstance led to
telemedicine. through the line. There are thank great need, and Lubbock Impact

Lubbock Impact, although hit hard you notes to be written, phone calls was still there.
by the pandemic, has continued to to make, grants to write. The stories could go on and on
reach out. COVID has also brought in a new about the changed lives.
clientele – people in tears who have
Perhaps the greatest blow in this Thus, we have the name and the
terribly difficult year was the death, said they never thought they would goal – Impact. How grateful we
from COVID, of Mrs. Thomas in need this kind of help. America all must be for the services of this
October 2020. She had such vision and the world have taken a tragic ministry in our city.
and energy and passion; she is hit; businesses have closed, but bills
greatly missed. must still be paid. The need for
help has expanded markedly.
To contact Lubbock Impact to
Mrs. Brunson contribute or volunteer, see
shared a story LubbockImpact.com
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who had

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