Testimony from Feed & Clothe

By: Ruth Alexander

This morning I had a wonderful time at our We Will Feed/Clothe program. As we take people around to choose their hygiene items and food, we always get to chat about how they have been doing, how they heard about us if they are new and obviously, what they are going to cook with this food! We get some great recipes and ideas as we all share!

Today I took around a daughter and her mother who have never been here before. We normally take people individually, but it made sense and we all agreed to go pick the items together. After we chose the food items we got to pray together. We sat and talked about how they are from Jackson and they boasted on how close their family unit was. They went over how much our city has changed, yet when the mother and her late husband were raising their family, they agreed never to leave Jackson as it was so nice! All our faces lit up as we got excited hearing stories about Jackson and speaking with hope in Jesus as we are watching it get restored again. 

They lost their husband/father only 5 months ago. There was such a softness in the way they talked over their loss. They are all believers and they know He is in Heaven, which gave them a beautiful confidence that I enjoy seeing so much. In the middle of grief and pain, something that we have no ‘fix it’ button for we can find Hope and Beauty from Jesus. It was an amazing reminder that everything we need is in Jesus. We get to live in His peace in the hard things. 

Something I love about doing our We Will Feed/Clothe program is that God ministers to me just as much as He ministers to those who are coming for food. God has something for everyone!