Nancy checks the lunches for content.  Each lunch had 2 sandwiches: 1-ham and 1-turkey, plus juice, chips and cookies or cake.  Lunch bags were atop every table in the house.

Charles getting the chips ready for the lunches.  Bags of ham and turkey from BJs Kountry Kitchen are shown.  Each sandwich got 3 oz of meat.

     "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." Matt 25:35.
     According to the United Nations, there are at least 100 million homeless in the world today. But no matter where we are, the Bible has multiple mandates on helping the poor and hungry, and one effective way is to provide packaged meals to the homeless. Delivering a lunch may not solve homelessness, but it lets our neighbors on the streets know that they are loved and not forgotten.  GOD bless these men and women on the streets of America!

     On December 24th, the staff of the Kitchen Table Gang Trust gave out some great sack lunches to homeless veterans and other homeless people.  The lunches were given out in Madera and Fresno, CA.

     Kitchen Table Gang Trust Director Charles Taliaferro said "the lunches were a big hit, that giving them out was enough to bring tears to yours eyes!"  "Their living conditions consisted of tents, campfires, and meager amounts of food., very humble surroundings"

     Taliaferro said, "that this project would not have been possible without the financial assistance of Resource Lenders (Fresno, CA); Terry Holmes (North Fork, CA); George
Diestel, PhD (Madera, CA); Joseph Criscione (Port Jervis, NY); Mary Kimball (Savannah, GA); the Upper Room Ministries (Nashville, TN), Ron Verdugo of Save Mart Supermarkets (Fresno, CA), FoodMAXX (Fresno, CA), Gary Honeycutt of BJ'S Kountry Kitchen (Fresno, CA), and Riverbend Golf Club (Madera, CA).  Thanks to you all!

Talk about living under the bridge!  This photograph was taken of two homeless veterans living below the State Highway 41 overpass.  The men are holding their lunches, and that's Charles in the middle.

Down and out in Fresno.  All of the men and women we gave lunches to were most appreciative.  I wish we could have done more for them.  With each lunch we gave a message of hope!

That's Nancy in the middle.  She is looking down Santa Fe Street (at Ventura) along two blocks of homeless people and a regular "tent city."  In the background is two blue tents which serve as a roof for the men's home.  We saw a number of ladies at the homeless encampment too. 

     You couldn't tell who the veterans were so we just gave the lunches out to all who wanted one!