Detroit City Mission

Jeff, one of the men in my Thursday morning bible study group lives and works fulltime in the Brightmoor community in Detroit with an organization called City Mission.
Every year, they deliver food baskets to the people in the community around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. Cheridy and I have done this through our own church for the past few years, but decided not to this year since she’s supposed to give birth any day now. However, my friend Pete (also from my mens group) was heading down there to help pack and deliver those food boxes on Saturday so I ended up going down with him to help out.
At City Mission they give out boxes with fresh food. The people in the area don’t have access to fresh food because many don’t have cars and there are no nearby Meijers or Kroger stores. So, the food boxes that City Mission packs have apples, milk, chicken, bread, butter, peanut, jelly, eggs, potatoes, etc.
There are 800 people in the community that they wanted to deliver food boxes to, but they only raised enough money to do boxes for 200 people.
They will be doing this again at Christmas time, so hopefully they’ll be able to raise more money. If you want to help out or learn more, please visit http://www.city-mission.org/.
Thanks to Pete and Jeff for getting me off my lazy butt to get down there and help out!