"HOLY FOOD AND GROCERIES." How could you, or anyone who cares about hunger, not want to attend a lecture with this title! Especially when you see that the subtitle of the lecture is: How Feeding and Healing Transforms Lives. For many of us, isn’t this why we are involved in hunger work?
This is a wonderful opportunity to hear someone who is involved in that feeding and transformation. Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread and Jesus Freak, will be giving the Mahle Lecture in Progressive Christian Thought at Hamline University on Tuesday, March 2, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture is in Sunday Music Hall at 1531 Hewitt Avenue and is free to the public. (Parking is available in the Drew Lot, one block east of Sundin along Hewitt Avenue.)
Sara Miles, also a war correspondent, cook, and poet, serves as the director of ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco where she founded The Food Pantry to increase food access for hungry people. Launched in 2000, the Food Pantry new registers more than 1,200, serving up to 600 a week and relying only on donations. Since the founding, Sara and volunteers have launched 18 pantries in the poorest parts of San Francisco under the theme “Peace on Earth & Food for All.” On Fridays at St. Gregory’s, 50 volunteers sit down for a meal together cooked by their priest, Paul Fromberg. Following dinner, they pack up free food for whoever comes through the open church doors. Families select the food they need from a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, bread, rice, pasta, beans, and cereal served farmers-market style. Through this hospitality, the volunteers create a community that shares the unconditional welcome of Jesus’ table.
Come and be inspired!
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