It’s that time of year again. We can use blankets and cold weather clothes for men. Last week we distributed two car loads of clothing, shoes, and a few blankets on the street. Most of these were from St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church in Pennsburg, PA. Thanks!
We need more. A few weeks ago, a really large man found himself on the street with nothing but the clothes on his back. He helps us serve. He has a gentle demeanor. He wears 5X. I know somebody is going to read this who has been fretting over where they were going to dispose of these 5x sweatshirts and super large pants that fell into their possession. Stranger things have happened.
Sometime in the mid ‘90s, a couple of volunteers told me they wanted to serve The King’s Jubilee with a ministry of finding and procuring things. So I called Ora Love who coordinated a tutoring and outreach ministry in Richard Allen Homes, one of the worst housing projects in the country, at the time, and told her to give me a wish list. I told her to be specific and to be as outlandish as she wanted.
Ora giggled when I told her to be outlandish. She said she wanted an electric golfcart. The project was large and she was always lugging books and supplies and food and computers all over it. She couldn’t drive her car around on the wide sidewalks, but a golfcart would do nicely. The next week two of us delivered an electric golfcart to Ora Love’s office in Richard Allen Homes all for the cost of a receipt.
