Feed the Families – at St Mary’s Caring (GWOH)

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Ever wonder what happens to children who depend on school meals when school is not in session? “Feed the Families” is a summertime mission of St. Mary’s Caring that helps provide food to families at George Washington Carver and Lexington Park Elementary Schools. After food donations from local businesses, growers and volunteers are packaged at each school, families are notified and pick up the boxes. Helping to fill those boxes gives me a sense of connection to our community. Playing a small part in helping feed people who would otherwise go hungry, especially when we ask God’s blessing on the food after we have assembled the boxes, is very humbling and gratifying. It really brings home the meaning of “God’s Work – Our Hands” to me. I’m reminded of Jesus’s words in Matthew 25: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat… whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” May God bless these families, and the ministry of St. Mary’s Caring.