{"id":4401,"date":"2019-11-06T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:25:25","slug":"lakeland-church-hits-roadblock-rebuilding-food-bank-after-a-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/11\/06\/lakeland-church-hits-roadblock-rebuilding-food-bank-after-a-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland church hits roadblock rebuilding food bank after a tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Lakeland County church is praying they can rebuild their\nfood bank after it was completely destroyed by a tornado several weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pastor of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church found out this week\nthe rebuild will cost more than $100,000 \u2014 money his church just does not have\nright now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe ministry center is where we housed our food bank at and\nwe would feed 175 to 225 people every week,\u201d Pastor Matt Gilmore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All that was left of the food bank, as of Tuesday, was a\ncement slab near the damaged church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"306\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot-24-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot-24-1.png 576w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot-24-1-300x159.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re classified as a commercial business and for me to\nbuild, re-build or even put a portable on this property they\u2019re requiring\n30,000 gallons of water to fight a fire in my largest building,\u201d Pastor Gilmore\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilmore said that meant building a water tank that he was being told would cost about $120,000 when he already has to rebuild the food bank and make repairs to the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have not gotten the full damage assessment for [the church], so we\u2019ve got to repair it first and then hopefully we can find a way to build [the food bank], but the $120,000 water tank is a huge stumbling block for us right now,\u201d Gilmore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pushpay.com\/g\/mymtbc?src=hpp\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;if\nyou would like to help Mt. Tabor Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lakeland County church is praying they can rebuild their food bank after it was completely destroyed by a tornado several weeks ago. The pastor of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}