In the good old days the Chosen People took care of the poor by letting them gather behind the gleaners. The prophet John suggested that anyone with 2 coats should give one to the poor. Today the Government removes the second coat and second pair of shoes from every tax payer before they can buy it and then casts a stingy eye out over the madding crowd and pretends it is in the job of dispensing charity. family responsibilityCharity is where you take money out of your own pocket and donate to those that need it. What the Government is doing doesn't come anywhere close to being charity.
I've always been impressed with the efficient way churches can spring into action to help other people. Today I went in with a work crew to fill food orders for 50 families. All we were assigned to do was the dry goods portion of the orders.
Food orders start with a sister in the church going out to work with the needy family. She has a list of all the products available. They go down the list together. To mark off how much food in each category is needed. The marked list is then taken to the minister who checks quantities against previous orders to see if other problems are developing that he hasn't been told about. From there the list goes to the food kitchen and is assigned a number.
Workers, and that was me and 8 other men today, volunteer their time to come in and fill the orders with a smile and a prayer over each order. Because everything is so well organized, teams of a dozen or more that have never met before or worked together previously can function in tight spaces and never run into each other. Because this is done in a spirit of love and devotion there are no frowns, no jokes, and nothing anywhere close to coarse language. Working on these projects is a pleasure and our labors are performed with gratitude that we can serve.
The lists are on a sheet of paper with columns of foods on it. The number wanted of each item is on the left. As that quantity of that item is put into the bags with numbers on the bags corresponding to the order number assigned to that family is checked off the number put in is written down beside it.
Because we have been doing this since 1932 everything is in a specific place. By going down the column in order, the next item that will go into the sacks will always be to the left or down from the item just processed. Therefore, we can keep moving to the left and never once be in the way of the team ahead of us or coming behind us. The processing moves forward rapidly and safely.
When all the food we are responsible for has been put into bags and the bags put into shipping carts we count the number of bags and sign off a voucher that the order has been properly filled. Then the shift supervisor comes and verifies the number of bags, and rearranges the positioning of the foodstuffs if necessary. Then the tubs are put on to pallets in the shipping area. There they will be united with the fresh produce and frozen foods just before delivery trucks arrive.
Drivers then verify receipt of a specific number of bags in each tub and a specific number of tubs for each delivery location. Then they arrange the tubs on the truck so that delivery can be made in an efficient manner.
Upon delivery the family signs receipt and accuracy of all the foodstuffs requested. They check to make sure the order numbers on all the sacks are the same.
Foodstuffs to fill the orders come from three sources. #1, devoted members in the church fast for 2 meals each month and pay their minister the amount of money that would have been spent on those 2 meals. All this money is pooled and used for purchasing what the families need.
#2 People can donate foodstuffs and personal needs directly to the church for distribution.
#3, Where feasible, large groups of church members can go in together to produce foods that would not ordinarily be available, or that can be sold in order to purchase food. Where feasible, canneries are operated to can fresh produce available locally or that can be transported to the factory safely – frozen orange juice concentrate for example.
It is a common misconception that anyone really in need will be taken care of by one social responsibilityGovernment Program or another. That is, quite simply, preposterous. The vast majority of people in need of assistance would starve to death, burn up or freeze to death if they had only the Government to take care of them.
Being a good neighbor I have participated in distributing governmentally supported “commodities” to “poor people.”
Everything is completely backwards there.
#1, the “poor people” must make their own arrangements to come to the distribution center. If you can't make it there by the right time, you don't get it.
#2, “poor people” are entitled to foodstuffs at the distribution according to the disposition of those organizing the distribution. In some places you are only entitled if you are on food stamps. In other places you can be entitled just by living in public housing or by being on food stamps.
#3, there isn't enough food there for each family to do anything with
#4, the food is usually packaged badly and it is seldom the kind of food most people eat. There will be twice as much corn meal as there is flour, for example. What is delivered is determined by what the government has too much of at the moment. Sometimes a family of 7 will get 4 cans of peanut butter, sometimes there won't be any peanut butter at all to distribute. Quite often the food has suffered badly during transportation. If the sack put into your package has been ripped open in transit you have two choices.. take it or leave it.
#5, recipients are not treated like human beings. They aren't even treated as numbers.
#6, coarse language is the norm as those distributing the goods wrestle with the problem of getting the food packaged and ready for handing out.
#7, there is always food left over and this is distributed to the poor workers.
Where small community kitchens are staffed by church pastors and volunteers, families of large means and companies willing to share surpluses at least present a cheerful front. “We give what we have,” said one Baptist minister.. “And we give until we ain't got no more.” Ministers from each congregation can distribute chits to applicants and these are received on a first come, first serve basis. Distribution oversight is rotated from one church to the next. All the ministers involved meet regularly to discuss the needs of the community. When fund raising is needed, they decide upon the best policy and spring into action.
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