DALLAS - At Crossroads Community Services in downtown Dallas, hunger is not an abstract concept.
As families across North Texas feast on turkey and dressing during the holiday season, Jay Cole is seeing more people than ever walk through his doors asking for food.
"It's unbelievable this year," said Cole, director of Crossroads, a First United Methodist Church ministry and one of the largest distributors for the North Texas Food Bank. "We distribute food to up to 40 families a day, and it used to take until about 11 a.m. for our sign-up sheet to be filled. Now, the list is filled by 9 a.m., and we have a line going out the door."
Crossroads -- 55 percent of whose …
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