Syracuse to Kendall; Distance = 8 Miles; People Met = 3
We slack packed today out of Syracuse and then came back to spend another night here, this time in the First Christian Church. I gave a talk at the Rotary Club about human kindness and they informed me of a good deed a few people were involved with, renovating a person’s home while they were in a lengthy stay at a hospital.
At the First Christian Church I spoke to Marie, via Joanice’s cell phone, about their bread program. A “mother church” collects bread in Colorado Springs from Safeway and other large scale supermarkets. First Christian Church travels 250 miles one way to pick up their allotment of the bread in a 15-seat van and trailer. On the way back they drop off “shipments” to Christian Churches in Lamar and Holly. A few other churches then come to Syracuse to pick up theirs.
Joanice and Ky
In Syracuse the bread gets distributed to a variety of folks, including the Methodist Church for their Community Friendship meals we witnessed the evening before. Anybody can pick up bread, rich or poor; the only requirement is that no bread can be wasted. That means a lot of bread pudding at times, but it also means the First Christian Church’s own variation of “confusing who is giving and who is receiving.”
I’m getting the feeling that I will very much be “preaching to the choir” at any of my presentations throughout Kansas.
