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Shanita McAfee Bryant speaks with Father Don and Mary Coppinger Orndoff about food waste, food rescue, and food redistribution in the Kansas City area. Shanita is a chef who empowers communities through nourishment. Her groups, The Prospect KC and Nourish KC Community Kitchen, address food insecurities, create culinary employment opportunities, improve nutrition education, and transform lives by connecting people and through economic development. She shares her experiences in helping our city diminish hunger and wants to help various local nonprofit groups work together for the common good. Visit the websites to learn how you might help.
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"In the end, these things are only required: that you act justly, that you love tenderly, and that you walk humbly with the Lord."
— The Prophet Micah
In this month of Thanksgiving and table fellowship, many people struggle to buy groceries while government cutbacks to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP) have limited food aid to low-income citizens and their families. As happens more than we want, while political partisans point fingers and blame those in rival camps, people of goodwill step up to assist local churches, community centers, and other social agencies to help those in difficult or dire situations. As weather turns colder each year, the need increases—and you always respond. This year, with empty shelves in food pantries across the metropolitan area and nation, we graciously welcome any contributions you can offer.
"We are like travelers who have forgotten
the name of our destination. We must return from where we came to discover where
we are going."
— G. K. Chesterton
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