“Debbie Bond and Rick Pelloni are members of Victory Family Church's Dream Team, a group that provides for the church's needs through volunteer efforts. Bond and Pelloni were among church members who packaged and distributed food Wednesday.”

“If you lavish your food on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom shall become like midday” Isaiah 58:10.CRANBERRY TWP — “It's the whole concept of our church: to be the hands and feet of Jesus,” said Rick Pelloni, a nine-year member of Victory Family Church (VFC) in Cranberry Township and its Fishers of Men team.Pelloni is one of 160 volunteers who have assisted with VFC's Helping Your Neighbor program, a food distribution event that will last as long as the community needs it to during the COVID-19 pandemic.VFC Outreach Pastor Chris Palmer said the church has served 124 families since Monday.“We expect that number to continue to grow the longer this crisis goes on,” Palmer said. “We have experienced an increase in those coming to receive food every day.”VFC is distributing food to people in need from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.With shifts of nine to 10 volunteers — to stay within the Trump administration's recommendations for public gatherings — VFC has been collecting and handing out bags of nonperishable food.

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