Learning to Live With Grace, Compassion, and the Nature of a Servant
Instead of re-enacting Pilgrims and “Indians” with young ones, contact a tribal reservation and ask if they have needs to be met. Instead of gorging yourself with more food than any human should eat in one day, let alone one setting, make 1/2 the menu and donate the rest to a … [Read more...]
Our church has a food bank open once a week to the public. Folks in the community contact service organization Care to Share and go through a screening process. Care to Share then delegates families to us to provide a little over a week’s worth of food. It’s the same process that … [Read more...]
Where I Went: This week marked the 6th month my daughters and I have delivered for SCAT. If you haven’t heard of this amazing ministry, please read about the first time we volunteered, or the second, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth. The Job: The afternoon started … [Read more...]
Where I Went: SCAT (Special Church Community Action Team) is a ministry of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Beaverton, OR. The church food bank is open certain days a week, but also asks volunteer teams to deliver food boxes to families without transportation. Our family makes … [Read more...]
Where I Went: As a family, we just volunteered two weeks ago with St. Matthew Lutheran Church’s food pantry ministry, SCAT (Special Church/Community Action Team). In the past, I’ve tried to space out my volunteer activities, but with SCAT I made a monthly commitment to … [Read more...]