Forgotten Harvest, Fruitful Events

A visit with a pastor of Evangel Ministries on Utica Road in Rosevile last Saturday, was most inspiring.

The rain poured down like the dewfall while a steady stream of parishioners, among others, lined up in the parking lot for a head of cabbage, milk drinks, bread, Breyer's ice cream, tomatoes, and more from Forgotten Harvest.

An impressive organization, the name implies fruits of the field that may be so abundant that stores and producers give it away to the needy of metropolitan Detroit, and elsewhere, I bet.

This free food was enthusiastically embraced as it was carried to waiting cars,

A warm, gripped handshake welcomed me in the person of the son of the former pastor of Evangel Ministries, Pastor Burns, who assumed the helm of the middle to lower-class community in Roseville, Michigan, recently, he told me.

The historic Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a stone's throw, so to speak, from Evangel, distributes volumes of food daily at Gratiot and Utica Roads. Diane Kramer, the executive mangager there is spotted carrying bagsful of bananas, soups, soaps, and juices, amid carbs
for those who press the doorbell of the busy church marking its one hundred and fifty years
of praising God, serving and reaching out to neighbors in the "love of God/Neighbor" commandments of Jesus.

"Love your neighbor as yourself," Jesus said. And, it may seem to some that minimal love marks many since neighborly love seems so limited these days. In fact, some civic leaders and Neighborhood Watch groups, among others, are taking up the clarion call of Jesus this Easter season season to lift up life through the 50 days through Pentecost Sunday, May 27th.

Fogotten Harvest.

Evangel Ministries will be there to feed followers April 28th all morning.

Just visiting with Pastor Burns is a treat for me.