The parking lot of a Montgomery County community center was filled Saturday with boxes of groceries and volunteers as Rev. Matthew L. Watley and members of Kingdom Fellowship African Methodist Episcopal Church distributed food to people in need amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Such distributions to the community are nothing new for Watley and his Silver Spring congregation, but many who took bags of groceries at Saturday's event only recently fell on hard times, having lost jobs because their places of employment had closed to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

"We have giving out 700 boxes of food and the need is growing," said Watley, whose church is one of many houses of faith and charitable organizations that gave out food over the  weekend.

On Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Washington and Catholic Charities will distribute 800 boxes of groceries and family meals in the west parking lot of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast.

In two previous events in Prince George's County, their volunteers gave out 1,400 boxes of groceries and 1,400 ready-to-eat family meals.