First Event, Garvis

Ms. Faye, a long-time volunteer at the Frederick Rescue Mission, stocks shelves in the mission's food distribution center on Friday January 24th. Every Friday morning, volunteers at the mission unpack boxes of food donations and organize them on the shelves.

The Frederick Rescue Mission receives food donations from local businesses and from the Maryland Food Bank that they stock in the food distribution center and use to cook meals in their soup kitchen. The mission's kitchen and food distribution center are run almost entirely by volunteers.

Ms. Chong, the head volunteer in the Food Distribution Center, pulls a palette of food donations inside to be unloaded by other volunteers. Ms. Chong supervises other volunteers in the distribution center and directs the food stocking process.

The Mission's Food Distribution Center limits the number of items each patron can take from specific areas to make sure that everyone who comes in can get the food that they need. The mission serves many patrons with English as their second language so they often have signs written in other languages.