Chrismas Love!

Wishing to impact our neighborhood with the love of Jesus this Christmas season, one of the young men at our church had a vision of giving out food to our neighbors. Because our church is located in the poorest part of town, this was a very appropriate way to share the love! Enough money was donated to purchase 219 boxes of "Angel Food" (@25.00/box). The boxes included an assortment of food including some frozen chicken and four rib eye steaks! On Saturday approximately forty people assembled the boxes in an open ended warehouse with the temperature of 20 degrees and windchill of about five! We had an assembly line and then loaded them on to our pick-ups. We then met at the church and divided up into teams assigned to specific streets. We simply went door to door and shared a box with a Christmas greeting and invitation to our church. There were blessed reports of the responses! Today at least two families came to the service as a result of our contact with the food. But I'm not sure who received the most blessing, the giver or the givee! There were quite a few of our teens and children involved and they were greatly impacted by the experience as were the adults. After distribution we had a great time eating hot soup at the church. It was the coldest day of the year so far but our hearts were warm! (Unfortunately, the camera I took with me had low batteries so I did not get any photos!! Boo Hoo!).