They didn’t waste time. The very next month, volunteers got busy preparing lunch every Tuesday and Thursday for 30-plus people. The list grew from word of mouth, and by this past Tuesday volunteers fixed 88 plates to deliver — and not just to church members.
“We feed hospice patients, and word just got around to people who really needed these plates,” Robinson said. “Some of these people use that for two meals.”
The effort is funded strictly by donations.
“All we want to do is be Jesus’ hands and feet. We don’t want any recognition,” Robinson said.
“Every one of us there has a heart, a passion for this.”
On Tuesday, volunteers showed up at the fellowship hall by 10 a.m. with big containers of food.
After coffee and chit-chat, Morris said a prayer, and volunteers lined up on both sides of long tables, assembly-line style. They passed down take-out trays, loading them with beef stroganoff, corn, bread and cookies, then put them into plastic bags for delivery.
Some of the volunteers stayed to eat a quick lunch themselves before setting out on deliveries as far as McComb, Summit, Magnolia and Liberty.
“Seeing a smiling face, and getting a hot meal — we’re going in Jesus’ name, not being a trumpet,” Morris said.
“We do lift the Lord up in this ministry. We get the greater blessing.”
Lamar Stokes, 95, comes along with his daughter, Phillis Waller.
“I think it’s a great ministry,” Stokes said. “Think of all the churches around. If they all did this, there wouldn’t be any hunger.”
Darryl and Shirley Hunkapillar were among the many volunteers who made deliveries. They headed out west of Summit to the home of Wayne May, 75.
May came outside to meet them. He was dealing with a host of medical issues and had a doctor’s appointment later that day.
“It’s meant a lot,” he said of the meals.
“They’re just good, wonderful people to do what they do. A lot of them have health problems of their own. It adds to my health and my well-being.”
