By: Storme Jones
In late November, News 9 reported rural Oklahoma communities were being cut out of a UDSA food distribution program due to a lack of federal funding.
Since the story, USDA food distributor RK Group reversed course and sent an additional 1,500 boxes of fresh produce to be divided between eight rural communities.
“When you ran the story, we were very graciously called by pastor Derek Scobey the next evening,” Luther United Methodist Church Pastor Patricia Johnson said. “I started crying on the phone.”
Scobey is the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in northeast Oklahoma City, where food deliveries were continuing. He told Johnson they’d work together to push the USDA to continue deliveries to her rural communities.