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Keep Calm and Stay Home?!
Every once in a while we do something at Loaves & Fishes that just seems so perfect, I want to tell the world about it. That’s how I feel about the theme for this year’s Third Annual Loaves & Fishes Non-Event. What started out years ago as a “Cheese Ball” has evolved into an invitation […]
Bright Shining Faces
I had the pleasure of seeing my 9 year old granddaughter off to her first day of 4th grade this morning. She got up at 6 a.m. with no complaint, dressed herself all in pink, except for her brown cowgirl boots of course, and sat down to pancakes, bacon and orange juice. She was so […]
A Pantry vs. the Grocery Store: What’s The Difference?
We have been fortunate to have Elizabeth Cooper, a junior marketing major from Clemson, interning with us this summer. Here Elizabeth shares her experiences volunteering in our food pantries… Most people can relate to the above statement in one way or another. While the sole purpose of traveling to the grocery store is to pick up what […]
Happy Birthday to You, Me, Us and We….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WE. (Birthday song for twins – Sung to trad. tune) I am old enough not to get too excited about birthdays – after all it seems like they come just weeks apart. And they tend to veer towards being festivals instead of days. […]
“I’m always hungry, I’m a college student.”
Our guest blogger is Margery Adams, a spring intern from UNCC. Margery shares her thoughts about the true meaning of hunger through an open letter to other students. A note to my fellow students: I say this so often it seems to be my life motto these days. “I’m hungry”, “There’s nothing here to eat”, “Why is take-out so expensive”, […]
Full Disclosure
It happened again. This time I was being shown around a church by the Associate Pastor. She was showing me their food pantry – a small space but with a very good assortment of food available. As we were talking about feeding the hungry she said “I need to make a full disclosure”. I should […]
Good Days & Bad Days
Good days and bad days….days of calm and days of chaos. We all have them. At Loaves & Fishes today we are beginning a new season – holidays are over, Scouting for Food on Feb. 2 was a rousing success, and we just held an Open House for all our friends and supporters to see […]
Once Upon A Time
ONCE UPON A TIME, in a land not so far away….a newspaper reporter wrote a story about the rising number of hungry people and the declining amount of food Loaves & Fishes had to feed them. And in that same land, a very benevloent man and his wife read that story and wanted to help. […]
An extra week = a gift?
Because Thanksgiving fell as early as possible this year, we have an extra week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That feels like a gift to many of us who traditionally fill every available moment between the two holidays with more activities than anyone could reasonably do. Of course, there is never enough, enough time, enough Christmas […]
Change Gets Personal
After having our administrative offices housed in St. Luke’s Lutheran Church for 23 years we have moved to new offices in our expanded warehouse space. I’ve been surprised at how hard change is in so many ways. It’s ironic because I have spent the better part of the last year telling our pantry volunteers that […]
