Helping the homeless and the hungry

[Sherri]

We rarely give away money, but we do help a lot of people from our church. They stop by the office every week - different faces, but basically the same story. Sometimes we help; sometimes we can't. But we always make a check out to their landlord, or their utility place or let them charge at the grocery store, but the store knows our policy - nothing but food items. Once in a while we will give out something from petty cash, but it's rare.

Personally, we give to beggars in cities that we visit, because we figure if they don't use it for the right thing, at least we will be blessed for trying.

We have a young man in our church who, when he sees someone with one of those signs along the highway, he goes to McDonald's and buys two Happy Meals and then goes and sits with the person and shares a meal and encourages them and talks about the Lord. I think that's an awesome thing to do!