{"id":42110,"date":"2014-05-20T22:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T04:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/when-i-was-hungry-you-fed-me.html"},"modified":"2014-05-23T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T20:24:52","slug":"when-i-was-hungry-you-fed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/when-i-was-hungry-you-fed-me.html","title":{"rendered":""When I was hungry, you fed me""},"content":{"rendered":"
This evening, the vestry from my parish did their annual service at St Clare's Ministries just south of downtown Denver. This is an adjunct building to the (Episcopal) Church of St Peter & St Mary, where once a week they open the doors to feed as many homeless and impoverished people as they can, and to provide them clothing as well.<\/p>\n

It was a neat experience. \u00a0I got there early and got set to work setting up the tables and pouring cups of lemonade. That led to me being on lemonade (and coffee) duty all through the meal, which got me circulating around the whole room (and out of the kitchen).<\/p>\n

The clientele was a remarkably mixed bag, from some folks who were\u00a0clearly homeless, sometimes impaired in some fashion, and almost certainly sleeping rough, to others who just appear to be temporarily down on their luck and needing an extra hot meal to keep things going.<\/p>\n

Anyone who wanted lemonade, I poured it.<\/p>\n

I'm not<\/i> relating this tale\u00a0to blow my own horn about how righteous I am. \u00a0Anything but. I just want to share what a positive experience it was, and to encourage anyone who has the opportunity to volunteer in such a way\u00a0to make a point to do so. It's easy to talk about "the poor" and "the hungry" in a very generic and faceless fashion; actually encountering them and being in a position to do something to help — is different, in a truly worthwhile fashion.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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