KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church holds its mobile food pantry on the second Saturday of each month. November’s edition was busier than usual.

“That’s concerning,” said Marion Halim, who coordinates the event for the church.

“And it’s kind of emotional because it makes you see the need that is there and how the people are caught up in something that they had nothing to do with.”

Halim said cars started lining up three hours before the pantry opened, with a line of cars starting at the church and stretching nearly a half mile down the road, ending near Benton Boulevard.

“It's plenty of people needing food,” said Daphne Crystal, the first in line for those who came by foot.

Crystal is a SNAP recipient and says that she and those around her are struggling while t

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