Tuesday, October 31, 2006
This morning I read this and I thought it was just too bad. A real loss to a lot of families: FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, the COMPA Food Bank Ministry has delivered Thanksgiving dinners to more than 10,000 needy Colorado families. Not this year.
The food boxes were filled with stuffing, cranberry sauce, and other traditional fixings plus a certificate for a turkey at a local grocery store.
COMPA doesn't just provide Thanksgiving meals, they provide meals year-round.
They(and their agencies)feed 49,000 people a week, and while the Thanksgiving food baskets are very important, it was just one meal for one specific time of year and the year-round need was the bigger picture they needed to address. COMPA is the state's largest Faith-based food bank. Food donations are way down in Colorado this year, clipped by the volume of aid provided to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Food donations so far this year are off by 170 tons. So much food(and funds) went out of state, and left Colorado funds so much lower than before that they don't feel they ever recovered from the export of food and donations caused by that disaster.*
Well, guys. Things have to get better. Things will look up. They're so low, where else can they go but up? The thing is, I'm sure it's the same for every state. Everybody all over are having terribly hard times, every day. I guess it's just the way of the world right now. But PRAY. God will help. He loves His people, yet we need to ask Him for that help. If we ignore Him, and don't even want to acknowledge Him, then He won't bother us, He will leave us be. Tell Him how much you love Him. Tell Him you're Thankful for all He does.But PRAY. Pray without ceasing. In everything, acknowledge Him. He will make your paths straight.*
What's true of biology is also true of Faith:
If it isn't growing
it's probably dead.
Let your roots grow down into Him and draw up nourishment from Him. See that you go on growing in The Lord. (Col. 2:7 TLB)
Have a great day! -Missygirl
The food boxes were filled with stuffing, cranberry sauce, and other traditional fixings plus a certificate for a turkey at a local grocery store.
COMPA doesn't just provide Thanksgiving meals, they provide meals year-round.
They(and their agencies)feed 49,000 people a week, and while the Thanksgiving food baskets are very important, it was just one meal for one specific time of year and the year-round need was the bigger picture they needed to address. COMPA is the state's largest Faith-based food bank. Food donations are way down in Colorado this year, clipped by the volume of aid provided to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Food donations so far this year are off by 170 tons. So much food(and funds) went out of state, and left Colorado funds so much lower than before that they don't feel they ever recovered from the export of food and donations caused by that disaster.*
Well, guys. Things have to get better. Things will look up. They're so low, where else can they go but up? The thing is, I'm sure it's the same for every state. Everybody all over are having terribly hard times, every day. I guess it's just the way of the world right now. But PRAY. God will help. He loves His people, yet we need to ask Him for that help. If we ignore Him, and don't even want to acknowledge Him, then He won't bother us, He will leave us be. Tell Him how much you love Him. Tell Him you're Thankful for all He does.But PRAY. Pray without ceasing. In everything, acknowledge Him. He will make your paths straight.*
What's true of biology is also true of Faith:
If it isn't growing
it's probably dead.
Let your roots grow down into Him and draw up nourishment from Him. See that you go on growing in The Lord. (Col. 2:7 TLB)
Have a great day! -Missygirl
# posted by Missygirl : 7:18 AM
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