Why Soul Food?

As a Christian woman, I have been trying to find a way to serve God in a way that was acceptable to him and brought him the glory.  "Soul Food" is a description of how this work began and how with the support of our local congregation we are looking forward to growing this ministry.  I have discovered that my soul has been fed more so than the people we have provided food for.  In this ministry, I have experienced the real feeling in the phrase "It is better to give than to receive".  


From the time this way of ministering to our neighbors and family began in October 2011, we were blessed to feed 9 families consisting of approximately 54 people for Thanksgiving and for Christmas we have, at this writing, 13 families requesting our assistance.  The Southern Hills Church of Christ is a family of extremely loving and caring individuals who jumped in whole heartedly to fill our shelves and get the foods we needed by their donations.


I don't propose that in any way the success we are having is my doing.  The real heros are the people who brought the food to donate and who built the shelves to store the food, and worked to help pack food for distribution, and came up with exciting ideas on how to get even more food donated.  I am merely the organizer and the cheerleader for all my brothers and sisters in Christ.  I am writing this in the hope that other women will see it as a place for us to serve.  We, as women, are nurturers which lends our personalities to serving others and attempting to open doors to bring others to Christ by caring for their well being and seeing that others needs are met. Jesus did say in Matthew 25:35-40 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’ “Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? ‘And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? ‘When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ “The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’