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Ministry Open House & Unplanned Movie Review

November 26, 2019 by Susan Burkholder 4 Comments

Children in warehouse

This past weekend I went to two very different public events: an open house at the new building for Blessings of Hope Food Ministry and a church showing of the movie Unplanned. I decided writing about both of them in one blog post would be an interesting juxtaposition. Open House at Blessings of Hope Can you feed thousands of people for only 12 cents per meal? Blessings of Hope Ministry in Leola is doing just that— providing 25,000 meals per day, seven days a week, for less than … [Read more...] about Ministry Open House & Unplanned Movie Review

Filed Under: Community, Faith, Neighborhood Tagged With: volunteering

Packing at Blessings of Hope

August 21, 2019 by Susan Burkholder 4 Comments

Women and children bagging flour

"Let's go volunteer at Blessings of Hope!" My sister Brenda is the family planner (on the left in the above photo) and that's how 19 family members, mostly children, ended up bagging flour together on a Wednesday afternoon earlier this summer. It was great thing to do together as a family, and a fun way to support a local ministry doing an astonishing work. Blessings of Hope has been in my neighborhood for several years, and for a long time I thought it was a food pantry. Blessings of Hope, I … [Read more...] about Packing at Blessings of Hope

Filed Under: Family, Neighborhood Tagged With: family, Lancaster County, volunteering

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