There has never been any doubt that Faith Based Charities make up over 90% of food pantries and soup kitchens that feed the hungry of our society. Why is it that our Government and major food banks make it so difficult for Faith Based Charities to do what they do best, helping the less fortunate of our society?
 
Faith Based Food pantries just want to volunteer to help others in our society, why not leave them alone to serve their communities? They are not going around forcing anyone to Pray or go to church; they only want to help people. 
 
This new directive from a major food bank has some food pantries ready to close their doors to the many hungry families that they serve.
 
"The following information acts as an amendment to your current agreement with ----- food bank and should be added to your file containing your agreement with us."
 
"As a member of --------- food bank, you may not ask anyone to participate in any type of Religious dialogue. This includes no Praying in front of clients, no putting literature into client’s assistance boxes, requiring them to attend services, counseling or any other act that reapers to religion. This rule applies to Second Harvest Product as well as U.S.D.A."

What is our Government thinking about? They have thousands of people that want to volunteer to make our Country a better place for all its citizens and it seems like our Government wants to do is discourage all this free labor and make life more difficult for the needy.

In Florida we are having problems with the Department of Agriculture, which handles U.S.D.A. Commodity program for our Federal Government. The contracts for U.S.D.A. Commodities were given (91% of all Counties in Florida) to the members of one Association.

It is time Faith Based Charities stand up and say to our Government, that if you do not want the Faith Based Community to serve the poor, then start your own food pantries and soup kitchen throughout Florida and the rest of the United States. You know and I know that it would be impossible for them to serve all the hungry people of our society without the Faith Based Community.

Keep Praying. Do not let our Government or any other organization tell you that you can not pray with hurting people.

Lester, Do you have contact information on these leaders we can call to help us? Keep up the good work, we need help.

Brenda

Thank you for the info Lester, I couldn't agree more, it seems that at every turn, when trying to acquire any food Second Harvest is either involved or trying to be. This has been going on slowly at first, but has built up momentum.
When the "first lady" endorses them on TV at least twice a year, it makes it that more difficult to get food to where it will do the most good.

Peace,
Will

Philippians 3:13, I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.