One of the city's leading charities that helps to feed people with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses has completed a dramatic expansion of its headquarters and is now on pace to serve more than a million meals this year. NY1's Roger Clark filed the following report.

Neil Stevenson has chopped a lot of carrots in 20 plus years volunteering for the non-profit organization God's Love We Deliver. Monday he was doing it for the first time in a newly expanded kitchen.

"When we were here before it was very efficient and very well run. But this is just exponentially better," Stevenson said.

The 30-year-old agency which provides meals for New Yorkers too sick to cook or shop for themselves has returned to its building on Spring Street and Sixth Avenue following nearly two years operating out of rented space in Brooklyn. A $28 million expansion was necessary when the growing organization began running out of space.

"We faced the crisis of potentially turning people away. And we have a commitment to not turning away anyone who qualifies for our program," said God's Love We Deliver President and CEO Karen Pearl.

The facility is now almost three times the size it used to be, with improvements like a rooftop herb garden and a comfortable lounge for the 8-thousand yearly volunteers here. And of course there is the kitchen, now twice as big preparing 5,400 meals daily - on pace for 1.4 million this year and growing.

"Those numbers will continue to go up because as you help us spread the word and as the word about God's Love We Deliver continues to go out into the public, we get more and more people who count on us, and who call us and say, I'm sick, I'm hungry, I need your help," Pearl added.

And after 22 months "on the road" so to speak, Karen Pearl says it's good to be back home in SoHo.

"We had a vision of what it would look like to do the best service we could for our clients and the best appreciation for our volunteers. And I think we nailed it," she said.

With a bigger building and the need for their services growing, God's Love We Deliver certainly needs more volunteers to help out. If you want more information on how you can get involved, just head to glwd.org.