Food Distribution Faith Christian Fellowship Church

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Faith Fellowship Church (1951 Dora Ave, Tavares, FL) offers a monthly food distribution program. Cars line up very early at like 6am and the line does not start moving until 8am.

The cars park on a large grass field beside the church. One lady asked me if I was drawing a picture and I showed her my sketch and gave her a card.

When cars get closer to the church, there are volunteers with clipboards who check on names to be sure folks are registered. The woman with the clipboard offered a prayer for the indigenous people of south Florida and for the people being incarcerated at Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades. She had lived in El Paso and the indigenous people were near and dear to her.

Volunteers are at the front of the church assembled near skits of food items under the entry overhang. They give out large amounts of meats and then some canned goods and some sweets. There were ears of corn and some vegetables as well. The church has a vegetable garden with raised beds so the vegetables are fresh off the vine. For Lake County residents on a tight budget these items fill out the pantry and freezer for the month.

Lake Cares provides the food distributed. Their mission plan is to Feed the Body, Educate the Mind and Lift the Spirit of all individuals.

Test Track at the gun range.

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In Tavares Florida there is a large parking lot at the private Eustice Gun Club that is converted into a test track for The Porche Club.  Cones are set up to create a course that tests drivers skills.  Many drivers have magnetic numbers that they add to the hood or car door.  Topics are varied, from how to drive out of a skid to how to hold the steering wheel to avoid having hour wrists broken by air bags should there be a crash.

All of the Porches line up on a service road leading to the track, and then one by one, they drive the track competing against a stop watch.  All drivers had helmets and if they didn’t, they were required to rent a helmet.  All during the test runs gunfire popped off at the gun range.  In my sketch the covered canopy is where shooters line up to fire at targets.  There was also an indoor range which was always active. 

I sat in the grass watching the endless test track runs.  I sat close to a tree thinking I could make a run for it if a car skidded off the pavement out of control. Only one car did push the limits spinning off the track and stopping just short of a chain link fence.  Across the street, I could see model air planes buzzing above a landfill.