FISHING

You know the old saying about Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day: teach him to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime, well what if you could teach him to fish while you were also giving him fish?

Okay, this is getting way too complicated for a Monday, so here's the simplified version. Our Grace Care outreach program begins an exciting new phase tomorrow. Kerri Tooker has been doing an outstanding task of directing our Food Pantry and Mobile Soup Kitchen for the past four years and tomorrow she opens up a whole new opportunity to assist those Jesus is most concerned about.

In partnership with Long Island cares, we are going to develop a vegetable garden at Grace House, which will be then be tended by some of our food pantry clients. The garden will accomplish two significant goals.

Firstly it will provide healthy, fresh vegetables for us to distribute to needy families from the community we are privileged to help. Secondly, it will be a place where volunteers can learn to grow different vegetables so that they have a crop for each season, to help their family's diet stay nutritious.

So we'll serve vegetables and teach the recipients to grow them. I love the idea and appreciate Kerri's commitment to the well-being of the hundreds of people we are helping every month.

Grace really Cares!