Thanksgiving is coming!
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and the team at Feeding Hands is ready to serve our guests. On Saturday, November 19, we’re expecting more than 200 of them to come by to pick up a turkey and all the fixins’ for a full Thanksgiving dinner! Later this week, the preparation will begin, as a […]
A Night at Feeding Hands: A Volunteer Perspective
Prayer tonight was AMAZING! The Holy Spirit worked so powerfully. People who walked in down cast, defeated, or with little expectation left with joy, a smile, and a new hope. To watch a person be transformed like that was overwhelming, and I had to hold back the tears several times. Some of the women cried […]
Kindness Matters
A New Volunteer’s Perspective by Donna Shay Often, throughout my life, I have heard comments such as “Why don’t these people get a job and earn enough to support themselves and their families,” and “No one ever gave me anything; I had to earn it.” What I see on Tuesday nights as our guests filter […]
Growth and Impact – A Vision for the Future
The vision of Feeding Hands is to develop a groundswell of individuals, churches, and businesses engaged in addressing poverty and helping those who are caught in its clutches. In just 18 short months since we launched our first food pantry, we have grown so much. Starting only with a few postcards with our location on […]
How Do You Use Your Positional Power?
As a former CPA, the Bible story of the tax collector, Zacchaeus, always bothered me. In my mind, when Zacchaeus decided to mend his ways, he could not possibly have enough money to honor his commitment to repay those he had cheated. I would read this story with a “but” missing the implication for my […]
Community Comes Together
Recently, Feeding Hands Pantry has seen more and more groups asking to volunteer. All of our volunteers are from over a dozen churches including but not limited to Emmanuel Reformed Episcopalian Church, Liquid Church’s new Somerville location, Jacob’s Well’s Somerville MC Group, along with local residents seeking ways to help out and many more. Organizations […]
Pay It Forward
Right around Valentine’s Day, we, in an unusual happening, had no produce donations come in. This left our produce room barren, but God Knows what we need. An angel donated bouquets of flowers. Confused by God’s line of events, we pressed on and offered these flowers to the women coming through. To our surprise, these […]
Taken for Granted
There are many duties we do in our homes we do not think twice about: Doing our laundry, cleaning up the kitchen table or our living space, doing dishes, brushing our teeth. Try putting yourself in a world where you not only have to think about doing these tasks, but also whether you have what […]
True and Genuine Religion
We are so blessed to be able to watch God work! And all because we volunteer our time to help the vulnerable. He has blessed us again and again as you can see in the prayer room as we track his hand upon us. Can it be because he sees how we are caring for […]
Hams from the Blue!
Your time commitment makes it possible to feed the many families who come to us. But the love you show them is life altering. And the Lord is blessing us with signs he is with us. Early in the month, Jerry received a call from “the blue” asking if we could take 17 cases of […]