Neighbor Highlight

Craig came to We Will Go in 2019 to receive food from our pantry. We now see Craig nearly every day as he volunteers to help with everything from sorting donations, packing food boxes, and praying with his neighbors. He has been an inspiration to many because of the way he is serving his community. “Before coming to We Will Go, I used to walk with my head down...I never even smiled. Now I walk with my head up and a smile on my face, because I have a purpose!”

The Kind of Neighbor I Want To Be

By Olivia Hamilton, Director of Community Programs

There are children in our community who rely on school cafeterias for hot meals, and those meals are not available in the summer. During the months of June and July this year, We Will Go started a new summer feeding program that provided fresh free lunch to any child in our neighborhood. The second day of the program, a teenage boy named Dee came in for lunch and asked if he could come back every day. We told him yes, and Dee brought his friends from down the street. There were six children, with the youngest child only being 2 years old. They ate lunch each day all summer. Being a reliable person who helps kids know they are safe and have food to eat is the kind of neighbor I want to be.

One day in July, our friendly group of kids came in for lunch and announced it was Dee’s 16th birthday! We quickly pulled a cake from the food pantry and a basketball from some toy donations and took a moment to celebrate this young man. I asked him what his birthday plans were, and he looked at me and responded, “This! Being here, with my friends is what I wanted to do today!” I suddenly realized this would be his only birthday cake, and his only birthday gift. We Will Go is where he felt loved and celebrated. Those six children ate the entire cake in one sitting. We say a lot, “if this only helps one child, it will be worth it, ” and as I sat at that table eating cake and laughing with those kids, I found that to be true.

In my time at We Will Go, I meet so many people who are in a hard place simply because of the uncontrollable circumstances of life. I meet so many grandmothers raising grandchildren alone, so many parents who have lost children to violence, and so many single moms working multiple jobs. Jesus tells us to care for widows and orphans and to love our neighbor as ourselves. I believe we show the love of Christ to our neighbors by creating a space to build relationships and meet physical needs. At We Will Go, we want to be the kind of neighbors who take time to listen and learn people’s names. Being able to bless families with a week’s worth of groceries is a practical way we are able to make a real impact in our community. I get to meet some amazing neighbors that I am proud to call friends.

The Least of These

by Mariah Pitre, Director of Engagement

I still remember the impact of my first mission trip. Seeing children sleeping in crowded rooms painted bright orange and red, and adults rushing to me and my dad, forced me to see a different way of life. I remember asking my dad questions about why children were unsafe or alone and who was going to help them when we were gone. My dad was kind and told me that was a job for missionaries or social workers. Something about what he said resonated with me.

I wanted to work at We Will Go because I too wanted to help children like these. I wanted to be a part of the solution. ‘Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ Matthew 25:40

Because of your support, we are able to form relationships and see transformation in our community. One relationship was formed with a student that was born into a low-income family and needed someone to care. I remember being taken aback when we went to her home and her caretaker was barely able to lift her head to greet us. Standing in that small house, I realized this student had little support, help, or encouragement in her life. Years of struggles, attempts to succeed, and times of pain passed with this student continuing to come to our programs. When she was on the brink of dropping out of homecoming court, We Will Go was there. By turning the upstairs classroom into a salon and putting together a shopping trip, our staff took time to make her dream possible.

Now as a bright and motivated high school senior, she has applied to be a Camp Counselor at We Will Go after she graduates. We are grateful for your support that has made this possible, and we are excited for her to have the opportunity to teach and mentor students who are where she once was. I was most proud to hear her say that she, “Has faith and confidence in God...and believes in Him, even when it is really hard to.” Her faith challenges the way I see my neighbors and her story reminds me of the way Christ calls us to be a neighbor.

Accountability for Change

by Jonathan Lancaster, CFO

Most organizations were founded by people who were passionate about a specific cause; they rally people around an issue to make a difference. Our communities need these organizations to point a finger at problems that may have been overlooked. A lot of times, there seems to be a struggle to move beyond the inspiring idea. There can be a comradery around talking about issues; we plan lunches, dinners and events around poverty, crime, education gaps, and infrastructure problems. A lot of money is spent on events and organizations that are good at explaining an issue, but there is often a lack of accountability about solving the issue.

There are complicated problems that do not have simple, quick solutions, but a lot of the issues facing our communities have tangible solutions that organizations should be held accountable for addressing. The reason I got into the nonprofit space was that I wanted to work for an organization that held itself accountable for the change they set out to create. Over the last four years of working at We Will Go, we have taken a step back and said, what is a measurable change we want to see in our community? We began to ask hard questions like, “Does this program really help people or do we just like the idea?”

If we are not careful, we can fall in love with the way we solve a problem and lose sight of actually solving the problem. What if organizations were better known by people in the community impacted by the program rather than by donors that liked the proposed solution? We realized that we were going to have to stop doing certain programs to focus on creating a measurable impact.

For well over a decade, We Will Go took clothing donations and gave out clothes to those in need. This in itself is not a bad thing, but we ran this alongside our food pantry. We stepped back and said, what is the biggest need and where are we spending the greatest amount of time? The greater identified need was groceries for families, but sorting and processing clothing took up most of our time. We decided to take a big step and stop taking clothing donations. When we last gave out clothes in 2020, we provided food for 7,500 people. Last year in 2023, we provided groceries for over 20,000 people and processed over 334,000 pounds of food. In three years, we saw a 267% increase in the number of people served, and last year we moved into a grocery store because we outgrew our space.

It is challenging to set a difficult goal and hold yourselves accountable to it, but I feel it is scarier to waste resources instead of focusing on measurable change. We want to be a place where saying “Jesus loves you” actually looks like something. If you are at all like me and tired of just talking about issues, come and join us in being a part of tangible change in our community.

The One Student

by Jonathan Lancaster, CFO

This summer, We Will Go had ninety-five children participate in our summer camp. Volunteers from all over the country came to Jackson, Mississippi to invest in the lives of children. Children had the opportunity to learn Bible lessons, swimming, reading, and art. We were blessed with an incredible staff of counselors, leaders, and kitchen staff that made the summer truly impactful for children.

Ninety-four of the ninety-five children that our team worked to get registered for summer camp showed up. What bothered our team, though, was the one absent child. Staff called all the phone numbers they had on file with no luck. After long days of camp, they drove to different local apartment complexes in the hope of finding the child. One day they stopped at an apartment complex where some children that attended summer camp lived. While playing with the children, they asked about the child that had not come to camp. The children said the child they were looking for lived in that apartment complex. The children ran up to the apartment and came out with the child and her mother.

Overwhelmed that she had been sought out, the child’s mother revealed her phone had been cut off, she had to move to another apartment, and she was having car trouble. With no way to get her child to camp, our team picked up that child every morning for the remainder of the summer. It was at the heart of our staff to find the absent child. Isn’t that a picture of the gospel? Our phones may get cut off, we may get kicked out of our apartments, and our cars may be broken down, but Christ sees and finds us. In a world where we feel alone, God sees us and cares about us.

When you volunteer or give of your resources, it is stories like this that you are making possible. Yes, you are giving to the ninety-five children, but you are also giving to the one missing child. We are grateful for each person that has invested time and resources towards the impact of individual families in our community. Continue to join us in being neighbors willing to engage our community with the love of Christ.

20 Years of We Will Go

by David Lancaster, Founder

The afterschool vans pulled up outside my office and students began to line up on the sidewalk. I watched as one of our afterschool educators organized them into a line and walked them into the building. Once inside, students dove into homework, Bible lessons, and reading sessions. This scene is a far cry from what I had envisioned twenty years ago when I said ‘yes’ to God’s call.

I have often been asked the question, “Why did you take this path?” The truth is, there were probably other people who were more qualified, but we simply said ‘yes.’ My wife and I had the opportunity to go on an overseas mission trip years ago which exposed us to a world vastly different than our own. Suddenly, the routines of suburban life seemed mundane, and we yearned for life to be more meaningful. The change we experienced on that first trip was a piece of the puzzle that led us to moving to downtown Jackson, Mississippi.

John 10:10 says, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” As we immersed ourselves in serving those in need, the monotony of life began to fade. The mark of a full life to me was the people my life touched. What started as an engineer and a dental hygienist volunteering has grown into an organization that has helped thousands of people have a fuller life.

This past week, a grandmother picked up her grandson from our afterschool literacy program, and commented about how grateful she was for the impact she had witnessed in her grandson. Prior to We Will Go, her grandson did not know how to read and had no knowledge of the Bible. I could not have pictured helping a child learn to read when I moved my family from the suburbs all those years ago. I have been humbled that staff and volunteers have been motivated by my story. This journey has brought fullness to my life but also the lives of others, and that has meant the most to me.

Our journey has brought a series of unexpected lessons and blessings. Yet, amid adversity, we have witnessed the beauty of faith, hope, and love. The journey has also deepened our own faith and pushed us beyond our comfort zones, challenged our preconceptions, and forced us to rely on something greater than ourselves. In answering God’s call, we found the fullness of life for which we were searching.

The Meaning of Service

Earlier this year, We Will Go’s leadership team sat down to collaborate and define our core values. One value that we all agreed on unanimously was service but not for the reasons you might think. We are an organization that depends on volunteers to help our programs operate each day, and we encourage people to come serve with us all the time. We all agreed that service should be a core value because of how serving others has impacted each of our

lives. Mark 9:35 says “He sat down and called the twelve. And He said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and a servant of all.” Jesus encourages us to serve each other, like he did time and again.

One day, almost 4 years ago, I decided to work at We Will Go full-time after participating in We Will Go’s food distribution program. I was in graduate school and my post-grad plans were falling apart. I was looking for an outlet to give back or help someone in an effort to re-center myself. That day I came to volunteer, I met a grandmother who had what seemed like a mountain of problems stacked against her. Her daughter was battling addiction, she and her husband had taken in their grandson, and her husband had just been diagnosed with cancer. I asked her how I could pray for her, and she simply asked me to pray that her husband would not die. What struck me most was that she saw all these problems, but her main prayer was to not have to face them alone. She definitely had more faith and strength than I did. She helped me realize that there are people in my neighborhood with real problems that need help now. Serving that day helped me think about how I could share the love of Christ in my everyday life. My mindset and goal since I was in high school has been “I want to do something that helps people.” I am very grateful that We Will Go provides me with that opportunity.

More recently, we have been working through how to best staff our food distribution program. During the summer months, our Camp Hope program takes a lot of manpower, which tends to leave our food program understaffed. A lot of times neighbors will say things like “this is amazing, I’d love to come help sometime.” We started following up and sharing the need. I have been absolutely amazed by the response from our community! We have had several neighbors who receive food from our pantry sign up to come back and volunteer with the feeding program. Each one of them said that they do not have money to give, but they do have time. Service is something everyone can do, in a way that is significant to them.

Students Serving Students

The attributes which I naturally expect from children are curiosity or extreme honesty, but typically not service. Most of the children I encounter at We Will Go are spending their little lives on a mission to acquire adventure, extra candy, or more play time outside. This past week, two students approached me asking if I could put some ‘real food’ in our afterschool Point Shop. Point Shop is a place for students to spend the points they earn for positive behavior throughout the semester. I reminded them of the fact that they receive healthy snacks every time they come to afterschool. I was humbled, as I listened to the students share their requests, not to receive, but to serve. They were quick to admit that, at times, they had made fun of another student because she did not look or smell the same way that the other students did. After taking time to connect with her, they realized she did not have enough food at home, and the two students wanted to do something about it. With a little help from our Essential Food Department, our Point Shop is now stocked with a variety of kid-approved lunchboxes with grocery staples in each one. Now, our students will be able to unashamedly receive food when they are in need. There isn’t an embarrassing package or isolating line just for the ‘underprivileged’ students. Right in the midst of the toys and the candy, children can choose something that is fun and exciting, while simultaneously meeting a tangible need.

We have an incredible opportunity to impact the lives of many students just like the ones you heard about in this story from our afterschool program. We Will Go’s Education Department is gearing up for our annual summer learning program, Camp Hope. Camp Hope is filled with opportunities to serve and to give. We need people just like you to invest and believe in the children who are signing up for Camp Hope this summer. As we enter our eighth year of programming, we are asking you to help us give ninety children the chance to experience the Good News through mentorship, literacy, swimming lessons, healthy meals, field trips, and more. Students will get to grow and develop with their classmates and Camp Counselors throughout the seven weeks of Camp Hope. Learning how to swim, getting extra points for completing our summer reading books, singing at the top of our lungs, and exploring Mississippi’s own ‘safari’ at the McClain Lodge are among some of our favorite things to do during the summer. Camp Hope has been impacting the lives of students and families for the past seven years, and with your help, we know that our eighth year will be even more of a success!

How Can You Be a Part of Serving

Service can look different for everyone, but it can impact all of us. We Will Go strives to create opportunities for all different types of service. Sponsoring a child for Camp Hope, donating canned goods, or volunteering in a program are a few examples of the many opportunities for you at We Will Go. Engage JXN is a ten-month in- person service opportunity for young adults that we would love to tell you more about. We have ongoing needs for volunteers to participate in our afterschool program, food distribution program, and serve Saturdays. If serving in person is not an option for you right now, we would love for you to think about financially serving in a way that is significant for you. Your financial donation will help us hire more educators, purchase bulk quantities of food, and help meet the needs in our community. Please consider how you can join with us to further our mission to engage our community with the love of Christ.

An Engaged Community

Our partners and volunteers play a crucial role in impacting our city. Without the support and donations from our partners, what we do would not be possible. We plan to invest even more in our community in the coming year and we need your help to do that. Would you consider becoming a monthly supporter or making a one-time gift to impact the lives of children and families in our community? Thank you to all that continue to support the work Christ is doing through We Will Go in Jackson.

Essential Food and Education

Every year, we are blown away by the growth in impact of our programs at We Will Go. Our continued mission is to be neighbors willing to engage our community with the love of Christ. We have seen a 23% increase in reading fluency in students participating in our Education programs this year. There was also a 43% increase in Bible literacy scores in the last year. We have been able to pray with students who have asked to accept Christ. Not only are our students improving in literacy, but their knowledge of the Bible has dramatically improved.

Our Essential Food program has seen incredible growth from feeding ten thousand people in 2021 to feeding over fifteen thousand people in 2022. We have also been able to assist families in need throughout the Jackson water crisis. There have been pallets and semi-truck loads of water distributed from our facilities to families in our community due to the support of our donors and partners.

The Blessings in 2022

Jackson, MS has been in the news quite a bit lately. For local residents, many of the issues that are being brought to national attention are not new items. Jackson is a common conversation topic. This conversation tends to have notes of frustration or even anger. Sadly, many people have even given up hope.

There was quite a bit of frustration in Christ’s day as well. Israel was occupied by Rome. The average Jewish citizen had quite a bit of understandable frustration in the state they found themselves. I can imagine there was quite a bit of party gossip and water cooler frustration in 30 BC Israel. The Israelites were desperate for hope; they were looking for a messiah. The Messiah that came looked nothing like they thought, and he did not do any of the things they thought he was “supposed” to do.

Christ was not a military leader. He did not lead a rebellion against Rome. He sat with widows, children, and fishermen. He sat and listened. Jesus showed that the physical condition was not unimportant, but that the spiritual condition far outweighed the problem of the Roman occupation. The condition of the heart was far more dire. He used tangible means to open doors to talk about deeper heart issues.

In Jackson, we have the opportunity to meet many tangible needs in our community as well. Many elderly, children, and struggling citizens that we work with are looking for hope. Many people are tired and frustrated. We are able to provide tangible help in the form of groceries for families struggling in our community. Pallets and truck loads of water have been given out in the past weeks. We will provide groceries for over fifteen thousand people this year. Meeting tangible needs helps us address real issues opening the door to talk about a greater issue that we are passionate about. There is an answer to the frustration and anger. There is hope, but it may not be in the form we expect.

Many parents and children also find themselves frustrated. There are amazing educators in our city, but it is not news that our public school system faces many obstacles. We have the opportunity to come alongside elementary students and provide literacy and Bible lessons for each child in our program. We have had 215 children participate in one of our education programs this year.

Whether it is summer camp or afterschool, we have opportunities to build relationships with and hear the stories of children in our city.

There is an answer to the frustration in our city. The answer may look a little different than the one for which many people are looking for. The answer looks a lot like pulling up a chair and talking with real people about real problems. The answer looks a lot
like reading with a child or handing a bag of groceries to an elderly

person. The answer looks like neighbors being willing to engage their community with the love of Christ.

Engage JXN

So many people see the need in Jackson and want to help. They see the communities in neglect and the neighbors who just need a helping hand. Our mission statement is one that anyone can be a part of: we are neighbors willing to engage our community with the love of Christ. That looks like our staff coming in weekly to keep our programs running, camp counselors working with our kids, and volunteers jumping in to contribute. But what if there was an option somewhere in between volunteer and staff?

Our Engage Jxn program allows you to immerse in a lifestyle of active faith longer than just a short volunteer experience. From August 15, 2022 - May 15, 2023, you can sign up to live in the community you're serving. Every week, you can join in with our programs, connect with our neighbors and fellow staff, and learn what being involved in practical missions looks like. With a weekly Bible study, 3 day retreat, and time to make friendships with those in the program, it can be a great experience for those looking to see the impact of serving Jesus in practical ways on a daily basis.

Expanding Essential Food

We all know how vital food can be in bringing people together. From a plate of home cooked food to the groceries that make those meals possible, we have seen so much joy in our Essential Food program. We have a neighbor who has been coming to our building since it was the YMCA and her kids were in daycare. She watched them grow up in Jackson and has seen downtown change significantly. Every month now, she comes to receive food and prayer at the same building she used to bring her kids.

The number of lives and neighbors we see weekly is only growing. This summer, we plan to move our food pantry across the street to our much larger facility to house more food, pray for more people, and help more in the community. The equipment, freezers and refrigerators, shelving, and staff increase will be large but we are excited to be able to share Christ more in our city! With that growth comes need in the form of donors and people who want to sponsor one of our families monthly. There are also additional expenses with moving to our new facility. Learn more about how you can contribute on our website.

A Summer to Remember with Camp Hope

Working each week, our staff has seen reading levels, attention spans, and love for learning grow in our Education Program. May marks the end of this school year which also means the start of summer. Summer, which should be a time of sun and games, brings stress for many families. Without the classroom for their students, some working parents struggle with being able to find a constructive place for their child. A few years ago after seeing this need, Camp Hope was created centered around Christ.

From June 6 - July 29, 2022, we open our doors Monday through Friday to students for camp activities. With swimming lessons, crafts, Bible lessons, and snacks, it is the most exciting way to spend a summer. Our goal is for each of our 75 campers to be fully sponsored for $1,400 per student. In total, we are trying to reach $105,000 for a fully funded summer! We also challenge our kids that learning doesn't pause in May. Our daily routine includes summer reading and time for writing and learning.

Our summer staff break into groups to help support each child. Volunteer teams come bringing worship songs and crafts for the kids. For those who can't volunteer in person, you can partner with us financially. You can partner with us as a donor to ensure that each child has the books, food, and Christ's love to make their summer unforgettable.

Practical Faith Through Engage Jxn

Have you been looking for ways to serve in Jackson? To learn more about Christ while also learning how you can practically impact your community? We encounter volunteers and people in our city who are looking for ways to positively give back to Jackson. Rather than continue with your everyday life, there is a way you can help. There is a program offered in Jackson that makes it easy to engage with your community. Starting in August, We Will Go is offering a program that helps connect service with practical learning about giving back.

Engage Jxn is an immersive experience where you learn how your faith can be applied in every area of your life. Running from August 15 through December 21st, participants will be living in the community they serve. Being able to turn what you learn in church or from your Bible into something simple that you can do where you live is what this program aims to teach. Participants in the program will join in with our weekly programs as well as take a weekly seminary class. We hope that at the end of the semester we will encourage participants to take Christ into their neighborhoods.

How do you live out your faith and impact the neighborhood you live in? The message is simple: we are neighbors willing to engage our community with the love of Christ and you can too. For those wanting to learn alongside us and get involved with what we do, Engage Jxn is the program for you. We want to encourage all those signing up to take their faith and make it practical.

Receiving More Than You Give

With the food ministry, the group you might not see that is impacted is our volunteers. We have worked very hard to create opportunities for all types of volunteers from families to groups to individuals. Often they come believing they will be solving a problem with a neighbor but leave having encountered Christ. Recently, a mom came to volunteer and was grateful for a space where she and her children could serve together and learn about giving back. We also had a local business send its employees and they were excited to be able to give back to the community they work in. A common phrase we hear from volunteers is that they came to give to others but received more than they gave.

Last month, we had a man sign up to come and volunteer on a weekly basis. He was overwhelmed with where he was in life. With family issues, work stress, and kids in school, his pastor encouraged his congregation to go out and get involved. He found We Will Go and now comes monthly. Grateful for the opportunity to connect with neighbors who are going through similar struggles as him, volunteering has become a way for him to share and serve more. The Lord has encouraged him that he can make it through whatever he is facing and in turn, share that with those who come through our Essentials program.

Not all of our volunteers come weekly. We have groups from all across the country sign up and people who can only come for one day. The experiences they have are special in that every week we have new faces coming through our doors and new programs for people to plug into. Our Essentials program, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 11am and the second Saturday of each month, offers a look into the struggles of some in our community. In 2021, we have given groceries to 5000 people and want to assist 10,000 this year. We are excited for the future where we can feed more families and connect with more volunteers.

The Start of a New Semester

This summer, Camp Hope has given the summer of a lifetime to many kids in Jackson. We have seen growth in reading and friendships all summer while we took field trips, did daily activities, and worked on summer reading. Sadly, camp has to come to a close which means school is just around the corner. Many of our campers will transition into our Education program in the fall as well as new students from schools in the area. This semester is already proving that it will be exciting as we have new partnerships and new adjustments to our program.

In the last year, learning has looked different than it ever has. With online learning and heavy health concerns, we worked hard to keep the kids in our community on track with our after school tutoring programs. This fall, we are excited to continue as we partner with Jackson Public Schools to assist students from Timberlawn Elementary as well as Pecan Park Elementary. With a combination of electronic equipment, books and supplies, and our hardworking team, we hope this semester will be the best yet.

One of the positives to come from this last year of change was the growth in students we saw signing up to come in the afternoons. We know that our students do not have access to the supplies or support they need and we hope that this year, we will be able to impact even more kids in our area. How can you get involved or assist in ensuring a better education for these students? You can partner with us by sponsoring a child on our website or by coming to volunteer alongside our staff. This semester, our goal is to register 90 students in our after school program. There are always opportunities to further a child’s education and no investment is too small. Whether it’s buying a pencil for a child to finish a math problem or sponsoring a student, we can help encourage brighter futures for the kids of Jackson.

Giving Back With Engage JXN

We are often faced with the question of 'How does your life match your beliefs?' Or have people who are interested in making service and missions more of a part of their lives who are looking for clarity in what God has called them to. Engage JXN is an immersive experience of how your faith applies in every area of life. This experience will strengthen your faith, encourage you among other believers and give you a chance to have hands-on ministry opportunities to serve Jesus on a daily basis.

One of the unique aspects of Engage JXN is the practical side of the program. Not only will those enrolled be assisting with our Essentials, Education, and other programs, but they will be living in the community they are serving. This direct approach makes the neighbors you interact with and the issues you’re helping with an everyday part of your life.

Engage JXN will also be a mix of practically giving back to the community as well as learning. We Will Go has partnered with Wesley Biblical Seminary to offer a weekly class to go alongside the day to day service in Jackson. Engage JXN also provides community within the program with weekly meals together, fellowship, and weekly Bible study. The program runs from August 16 - December 17, 2021 and will have another section offered in the spring. College students or post college graduates that have a desire to learn and engage with their faith are encouraged to apply. Engage JXN hopes to encourage you to seek Jesus in all that you do.

Helping the Needs In Our Community

Every week, we have our returning neighbors come to receive food but also have new people sign up. Our doors are open to everyone from families to single parents to the elderly which means we never know who will come to get groceries. This past month, we had a neighbor who had never been before come to get a bag of groceries and left, having impacted our team. Olivia Hamilton, the Director of Essentials, was there to welcome and assist with this woman’s needs and shares the story. “As this lady was leaving, I [Olivia] noticed she was crying. I stopped to ask her if something was wrong. She said had been sitting in the grocery store parking lot deciding if she should spend the last of her money on food or gas to get to work. At that moment, her neighbor called to tell her about We Will Go. She came straight over and we were able to help her today.”

This is one neighbor of the hundreds who come through our doors. Each person comes with their own story, family, and issues. This neighbor was so overwhelmed and blessed that she didn't have to choose between going to work and receiving food. Olivia helps to facilitate giving in our Essentials program so that we can help even more families in our area. She states, “In our food program, we strive to help anyone who is hungry and never turn someone in need away. You never know what someone is going through. You never know the crisis someone might be in. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like much but, I know that blessing someone or giving groceries can make a difference in our neighbors lives.”