Today our team helped out with food distribution at the Vineyard. It was pretty sweet. Basically anybody and everybody who wants to can come and get a bag of food for free. No strings attached. No need to join the church; no need to even be a Christian. They simply come and get the food they need. If they want coffee, they can have a cup. If they want to stay and chat, we’d love to chat with them. It’s all about the people who walk through those doors. Their vision is simply, “To create a warm, welcoming environment where people suffering from food poverty can come on a designated day and time to pick up a food pack in a way that maintains dignity and honour.” The goal-“that no one in the Causeway Coast area should have to go hungry!‘
I helped man the coffee/tea/juice/desert station with Ashley. It was fun and time went by pretty fast, though surprisingly slow at the same time…strange, I know. Anyway, at the end of the food giveaway, we all gathered round to debrief, something we’re very used to by now. During this time, we were told a story of two young women that tied back to the lightbulb ministry we did earlier in the week.
Allow me to explain.
Earlier in the week, Thursday to be exact, we went door to door passing out free energy saving lightbulbs to anybody and everybody in the Harper Hill neighborhood, a low-income part of town. These two women came to the food giveaway because they were given a free lightbulb from some of the Americans. They said the Americans seemed like a good load of craik (slang for a lot of fun) and decided to come to check things out. Not only did they come to the food distribution though, they came to the service before hand! The one girl even chose to accept Christ today, having been in a position where she knew nothing, or very little at the least, about God. And she said they’ll be back next week too!
And all becase some Americans handed her a lightbulb…
