Hundreds line up for free meal

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reminds me of an incident on the near west side of Cleveland about 10 yrs ago, also a Catholic Church that had a mission to serve the poor of that neighborhood. They had collected turkeys for the annual give-away of Christmas food baskets, but thieves broke into the freezer truck and stole the meat. Local networks carried the story and by 3 pm the next day, when my brother arrived with the 10 turkeys he had bought, they had filled one truck with donated meat and a second truck was half full. My brother bought the turkeys on sale at K-Mart, which was running a special, a free 5 lb ham with each turkey. He asked if there was a limit, telling the clerk why he was buying so much. When the manager heard what he was doing, he eased the 2-turkey limit, so we also got 10 hams, plus he filled my brother’s truck with canned goods.
 
Awesome. Praise God that so many needy people were able to get a free meal! 🙂
 
St. Pete’s feeds the homeless one Saturday each month. At Thanksgiving, they team up with First Baptist and feed about 3,000. Cooking is done at St. Pete’s. The food is then transported and served in a building provided by USC. The downtown Methodist church operates a soup kitchen five days a week, with volunteers coming from all denominations.

We hear so many bad things about churches, just thought I’d throw out a little of the good that’s being done.
 
The downtown Methodist church operates a soup kitchen five days a week, with volunteers coming from all denominations.

We hear so many bad things about churches, just thought I’d throw out a little of the good that’s being done.
A downtown Presbyterian church two blocks from where I work does the same, and while the downtown Catholic church doesn’t operate a full-fledged soup kitchen, it does hand out sandwiches daily to the needy.
 
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