By Eric Swanson
An important part of the Keeping Pace program is to organize monthly debt evangelism and/or volunteer opportunities for members. This month, the Keeping Pace Raleigh group organized an event at the NC Food Bank.
The Food Bank just received a shipment of about 9 giant bags of 5ft x 5ft x 5ft bags of potatoes and sweet potatoes. This week, there were many high school and community college students present to receive credit for volunteering for school or legal issues. Our job was to sort through the potatoes to find those that were still good for consumption and to bag them for easy distribution.
As always, when we give we always receive so much more. Everyone that volunteers for a Food Bank comes away impacted by the great need and disparity within our community. A statistic that was used in our welcome speech was that their Eastern North Carolina responsibility has 545,000 people at or below poverty. In addition, last year they helped distribute 13 million pounds of food. It is just staggering how many people are needing a blessing from God. God is using organizations like Food Banks to feed the hungry, show compassion, and be the hands and feet of God.
Our choice is to get on board with what God is doing for His people or to continue seeking a selfish Mocha, Mercedez, or McMansion.
By living humbly, staying away from debt, and giving generously, we are more effective in becoming God’s hands and feet to the world around us.
What is your choice?
–Convincing People To Stay Away From Debt–
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Show others how much you’ve beaten debt
for the price of one latte a year. – – Beating Debt Charts
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