Try This: Collect Food for Your Local Food Pantry at Grocery Stores

Station volunteers outside of grocery stores, and have them offer shoppers a free reusable shopping bag with your church’s name a logo on it, if they’ll purchase food and drop it off with you. Then take the food to your local food bank.

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The Avenue Fights Hunger Through Partnerships

Sourcing and obtaining enough food to meet the demand proved difficult. And often, the church found itself with an abundance of donated expired food.

Amy Orr Ewing: A ‘Quiet Revival’

Our congregations need to be equipped to meet the moment in the culture, so that they are ready to lead people to Jesus.

Openhanded: Matters of the Heart and the Bank Account

There are so many things that seem to beg for our resources. So what kind of mindset must we have if we are to not only be generous, but joyfully generous?