We Left Almost Every Area of Human Service to Others, What About Food?
Are food pantries the last bastion of Church value in the community? Hardly. But we have to recognize that we have relegated almost every other sphere of human service to others. Will food relief also be owned by a secular agency? Its hard to miss the daily emails from Feeding America, a network of large foodbanks who source their food from the largest food suppliers and give away surplus food and government commodities. But connected to these food banks are thousands of church food pantries, who provide something on a local level in a more personal way. Its important to ask: are we approaching this the right way– making surplus food the primary resource we use to help hungry people, single mothers, seniors and the unemployed? … Continue Reading

