TBM volunteers provide support for vaccine distributors at Fair Park in Dallas
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By Bonnie Shaw, News Writer
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DALLAS—Outside of Fair Park, hundreds of cars queue in line each day to be admitted to the vaccination area. Appointments are required, and 2,000 to 3,000 people are vaccinated each day. Not only are doctors and nurses needed for administering the shots, people are needed for traffic control, crowd control, regular sanitation, registration and more to keep the facility running smoothly and efficiently. Texas Baptist Men (TBM) volunteers are doing their part to help the process by feeding the doctors, nurses and volunteers vaccinating Texans at the Dallas County location.
Rand Jenkins, TBM Ministry Advancement Team director, estimates that about 300 meals are served each day. The TBM volunteer teams are composed of seven members and provide coffee, breakfast and lunch Monday through Saturday. For more than 50 years, TBM has had a strong feeding ministry, traveling to disaster relief zones following natural disasters and other tragedies to bring warm meals to those in need. As TBM looked for ways to serve during COVID-19, they saw providing food to those medical personnel working at Fair Park as a
