HiS Print serving the Food Pantry

Words are difficult to come up with when trying to describe what took place today during our time delivering the food and supplies to the families in need. The best description I heard was, "overwhelming emotion". 

Ivana, the amazing young lady who sacrifices her time to help these people, started us out with a straight "body blow" as my brother Mossman would say. Again the words are difficult to provide but try to picture our caravan stopping alongside the road in a place where everyone in the car was trying to figure out where we were supposed to be. The group gets out and proceeds to walk up a small trail in the over-grown weeds toward what appears to be an old house completely covered by over-grown vines. The smell of rot and filth filled the air about the time we reached the front porch where we met our first family. 

Ivana, the translator, started to tell us about the family and how they got into their current situation. This family was much like the others we met today, widows with major losses in their lives. (In their culture a widow will wear black for 3 years after a loss.) In the picture you will see a young child, whose name is also Ivana (coincidence? I think not!), sitting on her great grandmother's lap. Both Ivana's mother and grandmother have passed which has left the great grandmother (my apologies, we didn't get her name) to raise her. The older lady on the left was a friend who stayed with them to help. Both of these ladies and this sweet 3 year old baby girl are in dire need of help. 

Through all of your prayers and financial support we were able to provide food, toiletries, and even a homemade stuffed animal (seen on the stroller) provided by Angela Taylor, a very dear friend of ours. 

This heart breaking story was only the first family we visited. We continued on to deliver food and supplies to a total of five families today. Each of their stories are as dire and heart breaking as the next. One was a wounded veteran who couldn't work but had the most beautiful attitude on life and marriage. The last was another lady who had lost her husband and all four of her kids.

For most of us this sort of loss is overwhelming to even think about let alone experience. With tears in all of ours eyes, we prayed with them and for them, as we did for each of the families today as we find peace in Romans 5:3-5

HiS Print thanks each of you for helping us on this mission and know your love and support is in fact leaving "HiS Print" with the families. 

He did it,

Let's do it!

Bobby Dunlap