What can you do to help?

I was invited by an old college friend to volunteer with his church to prepare and hand out food at a local homeless shelter. We met at the church and prepared soup and a sack lunch with sandwich, apple and cookies in it. We then caravan across town to Humility of Mary Shelter where we ladled soup into cups and handed the sack lunches out to those who wanted food. We had the soup on the tailgate of a truck to ladle up and there were several of us standing there ready to hand out the sacks of food. It was amazing the amount of people there that need such a service.

Humility of Mary Shelter is just one of many shelters in the Quad Cities area serving those who are struggling through life. This was such an eye opener for me. I had no idea there were such a high number of homeless in the area. I guess I’ve been naive in this area of thinking. When I think of hungry, homeless and poor people I think of 3rd world countries. I always knew we had homeless and hungry people in the states I just never knew how many. Statistics say there are 10,000 homeless children in the state of Iowa. That number only covers the children!

I encourage you to make a difference in the lives of those in need,  in and around your community. What can you do to help?