COBB COUNTY, Ga. - MUST Ministries has seen the impact of the government shutdown.

"This is the longest shutdown in history, and it's made our world very chaotic," said Ike Reighard, CEO of MUST Ministries.

Local perspective:

MUST Ministries has seen a tremendous increase in the number of people coming to their food pantries.

Reighard says at a mobile food pantry in Austell last weekend, there were 1,000 people, that's twice the typical amount.

Now MUST Ministries is preparing to open its warming shelter.

When the temperature drops below 35 then we activate and when we activate we'll average over 100 people a night extra. We know we have at least 3 days of frigid weather in store so that really begins to stretch us as far as resources," said Reighard.

Reighard says like always the

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