Thirteen pallets of food were delivered to Mustard Tree Missions in Meridian Thursday.

Pork & beans, pasta, eggs, cereal, and about 1400 rib-eye steaks were sent by Angel Food America Ministries to help the Key Chapter of the American Red Cross feed evacuees who fled the coast due to Hurricane Gustav earlier this week.

Some of the food will be taken to LOVE's Kitchen to restock the food supply there. LOVE's Kitchen has partnered with Mustard Tree Missions and the American Red Cross to help feed over two thousand evacuees who took shelter in east Mississippi.

"It has been such a blessing this week to create a partnership with Mustard Tree and the Red Cross to help with the crisis. We're thankful," said LOVE's Kitchen board member Charlotte Scott. "They have been a blessing to us, and I hope we have been a blessing to them. This week, Love's Kitchen prepared over five hundred meals for breakfast and lunch for evacuees at The Frank Cochran Center."

"This is a pilot program, The very first truck from Angel Food America. We're hoping that this will continue so that we can continue to provide LOVE's Kitchen with food to feed homeless, to feed the needy, to feed anyone who needs through LOVE's Kitchen," said Rick Burton of Mustard Tree Missions. "We're hoping to develop a long-term relationship there."

"What you see here is a terrible storm that has brought lots of evacuees to our territory and our community," said Cheri Barry, executive director of the American Red Cross Key Chapter. "But a good thing because we've built many new partnerships in our community to serve the people. It's awesome."