On feeding the poor...a local area's solution to stocking the food pantry.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Our local Krogers store does a neat thing. They have a barrel set up and next to it they

have a bag with some basics in them and you can pick up the bag and pay $5.00 at the register and before you leave you can put it in this barrel. We do help doing that. I know when we use to go to the children's mass on sunday during communion two children would bring a large basket up and the priest would call the children up to bring their donations. The little children loved bringing up their can goods and put them in the basket. The basket always got filled. People who needed help with food were able to come and get some food. What I liked about it they didn't have to belong to our church to get help. Our priest never got in the middle of it. They were there to get help and leave. Sometimes they came back with a donation of food. You can't get any better than that.