Outreach

So today was Epic Church's planned outreach for the month of September (I think we're planning on doing one every month, but don't quote me on that). We bought a bunch of groceries and went to one of the trailer parks in Mishawaka and gave them to those that needed food. In all, we were able to help 24 families have food for a while. Each family got 3 bags and a gallon of milk. In the bags were Meat, veggies, fruit, potatoes, mac n cheese and other food like that.

It was a really great opportunity to serve the community. I personally gave food to 4 families. I gave to Don and Anna (a disabled couple who weren't working and really needed some food), Caren and Tim (relatives of Don and Anna who were also very needy), Ellen Louis (an elderly woman who was living by herself with her 2 cats), and Amy (a woman who needed food to provide for her and her kids). It was just awesome seeing the gratitude of people when we just randomly came to their trailer and offered them food!

When we came back together as a group, there was a chance to tell stories about each individual group's experience. One group got the chance to give food to a woman who had been living off of crackers for the past week. She was down to her last $4 in food stamps, so the groceries came at an excellent time for her. She had also recently had a fire in her trailer because of someone she knew coming over and causing trouble with her. We were able as a group to go over to her trailer and help her move some things out of her house that were fire damaged (such as a stove). Some of the women also stayed and helped her clean up her fire damaged house. I think she was incredibly grateful, because when she asked her neighbors to help her with this stuff, they would only do it if they were paid. Its a little hard to pay people to do it if you don't have money. So it was great to go and provide for these folks for free! It was truly a great opportunity to go out and show Christ's love to the people in the area. I look forward to continuing to serve in the future!

Josh