CHURCH NEWS: Giving Machine donations to Lovepacs give 800 boxes of food for Texas kids in need

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PROSPER, Texas — At a time when one in five children in North Texas is food insecure, according to a 2024 North Texas Food Bank report, children who rely on school lunch often struggle most over school holiday breaks. To help those kids get the nutrition they need, members of the Prosper Texas Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and JustServe volunteers joined the nonprofit Lovepacs to pack boxes with food for children to eat over the holiday break. The pantry items were purchased using funds donated at the Giving Machine kiosks in Texas the previous year.

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