Car Show Revs Up

Sunday, July 21, 2013, 12:30-5:30 p.m. 

By Phil Shahbaz, Pastor of Community Life 

The Second Annual LBF Car Show is only a few weeks away! We’ve been busy organizing registrants, lining up our vendors, ordering T-shirts, and recruiting volunteers – all in order to make this a great community event with the summer’s hottest wheels around. But don’t just come for the cars, trucks, and motorcycles (or the food or bounce houses). This year’s Car Show will also assist the GAP Food Bank in providing for needy families in our community as well.

The GAP started in the early ‘90s by distributing food out of a garage to local families. Almost 20 years later, the GAP is located in a 4,500-square-foot warehouse in Rancho Cucamonga, equipped with a truck for large donation pick-ups, a forklift, and walk-in freezer and refrigerator.

Today the goal of the GAP Food Bank is to provide food to the needy families in our community. GAP’s immediate goal is to increase the number of families fed to 500 or more by continuing to feed the families at their facility, as well as expanding the amount of food provided to other food banks, senior centers, and churches. The GAP’s primary source of revenue is free-will donations from local churches, businesses, and individuals.

So this year, as you get ready to head over to the Car Show with your lawn chairs and picnic blankets, bring along a canned good or two to donate to GAP Food Bank. Then your family can enjoy the live band, bounce houses, petting zoo, and an assortment of fun activities for the kids. Panera Bread will be providing all of the food, desserts, and drinks this year, so get your grub on and know that 10% of all food sales at the Car Show will go to GAP Food Bank. Meal tickets and T-shirts will be on sale this weekend between services.

Still want to register your classic, custom, hot rod, muscle car, chopper, import, or antique? Head to lbfchurch.com. Trophies will be awarded in several categories. Registration fee is $20 per car and $15 per motorcycle.

We also still need volunteers to pull this thing off! If you’d like to serve at the Car Show, you can sign up for that online too, or on the patio this weekend between services.