Local Salvation Army receives donation of 1,100 pounds of meat

March 27, 2025

By Michelle Rodriguez

The Belton Journal

Hugh Shine and the Buyer’s Team recently donated 1,100 pounds of meat to the Temple Salvation Army and Feed My Sheep in Temple.

Both places prepare meals for the homeless.

“The Buyer’s Team is a group I put together for the youth fair including Dennis Green with Johnson Brothers Ford, Donny Ringler, and Jason Scott with Mac Haik Dodge, and Pat Mullins. The youth fair is held every year at the Bell County Expo Center. The FFA and 4H have a livestock show in February. Our team bought the grand champion steer and the reserve grand champion steers,” said Shine.

Shine said this has been an annual thing for the past 12 to 13 years. “The grand champion cost $41,000 this year, and I had it processed in a way where it’s convenient. The money spent at the youth fair is for the kid’s college. It’s delightful to be able to do this,” said Shine.

Marcine Chambers, Development Manager at the Temple Salvation Army, showed the group the cafeteria and the kitchen.

“This is where we serve meals, even to kids. It breaks my heart that we have kids here. It’s a fullservice kitchen. We do community meals Monday through Friday to serve those that otherwise wouldn’t have any food,” said Chambers. The UMHB men’s soccer team volunteers at Feed My Sheep.

“We try to volunteer once a week depending on our schedule and help Jeff Stegall’s needs at Feed My Sheep,” said soccer player Dylan Vadnais.

The ladies at Feed My Sheep baked chocolate chip cookies with a sprinkle of salt, made from scratch, as gifts to donors. “Hamburger meat is unbelievably high. This is a huge gift that will help our cost go down. We are looking ahead for eggs and deer meat. We ask, ‘How can we provide quality goods?’ It is an unbelievably huge donation! We might use 30 pounds of meat to serve 130 meals,” said Stegall.

Shine recalled when Stegall fi rst received the freezer. “We work with the Temple Salvation Army. The UMHB soccer guys are helping and painting. The thought of people coming here and eating the grand champion steer here, we know they are getting good quality here. We give them the best,” said Stegall.