Today was May 10, the annual food drive for the letter carriers of America. Dr. Johnny Strickland received a phone call from the Tampa Bay Harvest asking if they could use our warehouse for all the food that would be collected in the Tampa Bay Area. They were expecting about 20 tractor trailer loads of food from all over the Tampa area. Tampa has always been generous in its giving. There is normally about 72 million pounds of food given to this food drive all across America and Tampa Bay normally gives 5 million pounds of that 72. So this food drive is a big event, not only for the postal workers, but for those ministries involved in giving out food.
Vance and I took our 16 foot box truck and worked Route 6 today. We met at the warehouse at 8:00 a.m. and began meeting letter carriers at different points all over our route to let them empty their postal trucks into our truck to make room for them to pick up more food. Then we met them all back at the main post office on our route and collectively, the letter carriers had picked up seven more pallets of food. It was awesome. Vance and I arrived back at the warehouse tonight about 5:30 but then got sent back out to another route to pick up four more pallets of food because their truck was too full. We finally left the warehouse about 7:00 tonight and trucks were still pulling into the warehouse. This coming week, all the food will be sorted and sent out to the various ministries involved in food ministry.
It was a great honor to be a part of such an undertaking and also a great honor to have our warehouse used as the central hub for this huge operation. God is good. May I say a special thank you to everyone who left food in that little brown bag for the letter carrier to pick up today. Collectively, you all did a super job. Thank you so much.
Dr. Rodney White
Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807
www.investinginfutures.org
Investing in Futures, Inc.
"Coaching and Equipping the Next Generation"
PO Box 6451
Lakeland, Florida 33807
www.investinginfutures.org
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