Hope and help for families in need in our area. God’s Pit Crew is partnering once again with the Martinsville Speedway to distribute one-thousand food boxes for families in Martinsville and Henry County. The event happens tomorrow, April 11, from 3-6 pm at the Martinsville Speedway.
The boxes contain 25-pounds of food, including canned goods, shelf-stable foods, oatmeal, pasta, and a Bible. The community is invited to pick up one food box per family, plus a case of Gatorade, at this drive-through event, with a maximum of two families per car. A representative must be present from each family.
The event will happen at the Martinsville Speedway, 340 Speedway Road, in Ridgeway, from 3-6 pm on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, while supplies last. To take part, enter from Business 220 onto Industrial Park Road, then turn right onto Clover Road, and follow the signs to the Food Distribution site.
God’s Pit Crew Blessing Bucket Program Director Julie Burnett says, “We’re excited and grateful to partner once again with the Martinsville Speedway to distribute these food boxes. It is such a blessing to be able to provide food for families in our community. We want to thank the Martinsville Speedway for hosting this food distribution and our wonderful volunteers and donors who make this possible.”
God’s Pit Crew is serving disaster victims across the country. The Immediate Response team has been working in two locations, helping victims of catastrophic tornadoes in Winona, Mississippi, and Adamsville, Tennessee. They deployed volunteers and sent emergency supplies including our Blessing Buckets.
God’s Pit Crew also sent tractor-trailer loads of supplies to tornado survivors in Arkansas. The Immediate Response team has finished helping flood victims in Pond, California. Last week, volunteers and staff completed rebuilding a home in less than two weeks for a Letcher, Kentucky family and gave them the keys, after they lost everything in devastating floods last summer. Earlier this year, they sent supplies and volunteers to Griffin, Georgia to help tornado victims and delivered a truckload of Blessing Buckets to Selma, Alabama following a deadly tornado there.