We tend to underestimate how much our kindness impacts the one to whom we are kind. It has been very exciting to see our LINK serving teams coming back to serving meals from the serving line, the way we did prior to the pandemic. We can’t adequately express our gratitude for those who kept LINK’s ...
Help with lunch and maybe even pull your chair up for a meal with someone you don’t know. It’s simply the willingness to participate with another human being. When it comes to eating, we’re all the same!
Giving is truly a gift, and there is a great opportunity for you, from now through December 31, to make a gift that will be amplified through a matching grant to help offset the increased cost of providing meals for hungry people in Lawrence.
Behind each “chance” meeting particularly a person in some kind of need, on the margins of “normal” society, there is something bigger, something Divine.
The turning of the calendar page to a new year may not deserve all of the significance we tend to assign to it, but there is value in taking a moment to reflect on the past year and imagine (or plan for) the next one. In March, when the first of the pandemic lock downs ...
This “serving snapshot” is from pre-pandemic times, of course—now our teams mostly serve pre-packaged meals (sack or box lunches), and guests aren’t coming inside to eat for the time being, but it still takes many volunteers, preparing healthy sack lunches, or making hot lunches and bringing them down to LINK for distribution, to continue this …
My name is Doug Heacock, and I’m a retired pastor and a member of the LINK board of directors. I’ll be sharing in this space from time to time, mostly about issues and topics related to the work that we do at LINK. Obtaining food As odd as it may seem, I didn’t really become …
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