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I serve a small church with a large ministry. We serve community meals four times a week, and we run an onsite food pantry that’s open twice a week and a mobile food pantry that’s open once a week. We do a lot of pulling people out of the river, or at least giving them an innertube. It’s important work. I joke with colleagues that if my congregation had to choose between paying me for “religious” stuff or paying our food supervisor for food stuff they would choose food. And I wouldn’t blame them. Jesus cared a lot about feeding people.
