Stewpot

Yesterday several of us from church went over to The Stewpot to help serve lunch. For many of the people that eat lunch there, this meal is the only meal of the day. They are hungry, poor, hot, disenfranchised, disengaged and hopeless people. Caught in a cycle of poverty, most of them don't even have hope to one day be out of poverty. Read me right here, they certainly don't want to live in poverty, but they have resigned themselves to the fact that they will probably spend their lives in that type of life.

I can't imagine living that type of life. Moreover, I can't imagine not having hope of a better life. I don't know how to fix the problem. The government must play a role, but I don't know what role. Churches are called to help the poor, but we have limited resources. I know God's heart must hurt for his children that sleep on the concrete ground in 95 degree weather and go hungry every day.

For now, all I know to do is try to encourage them and help meet some of their physical needs. Here in Jackson, The Stewpot has a great ministry going and I intend to help in that work.