I don't doubt it one bit. Years ago, there was a minister and his wife who came to a very poor coal camp town near where I grew up. He started the area's first food bank through his church. He wheeled and dealed and had amazing fresh produce and breads and even meats that he and volunteers gave to the people in need throughout the area.

Other churches throught the mountains got involved and the next thing you know, someone in a bigger neighboring town donated a building and land. The organization was amazing. Someone got in touch with a food bank in a neighboring county who was associated with a national food bank distributor.

Before long, the government had to approve what food was accepted as give away by the food bank and the participants had to prove their income to receive food. So much for the good hearted efforts of the pastor helping laid-off miners with a small savings account, widows with a small pension or others who had fallen on a temporary hard time.