All of our partner agencies have continued to do a marvelous job serving the people in their communities and we could not have distributed food to these outlying communities without their faithful volunteer teams. So what did all of this mean for The Lord’s Harvest? During Bill’s hospitalization, Willie Romero from Bright Hope Laurel United Methodist Church, Tommy Justus from Mars Hill Baptist Church and other volunteers (including Bonner Scholars from Mars Hill University) worked overtime to get food to people. We have felt your love, prayers, and support and feel so blessed! THANK YOU! We’d love to have you join us in praying for The Lord’s Harvest in 2023! It was the faithful prayers of friends and family, led by our prayer ministry team leaders, Kevin and Recy Barnette, that has sustained us and brought us through a tumultuous eighteen months an, without whose faithful prayer support, The Lord’s Harvest would not exist. He IS truly a walking miracle and we have all of YOU to thank for his miracle.
We are delighted to report that Bill is doing very well. What a difference a year makes! Last year at this time, Bill was getting home from his SIXTH hospital stay, (including open heart surgery)(with another stay just around the corner). “And the King answered the, ‘When you cared for one of the least of these, my little ones, my true brothers and sisters, you demonstrated love for me.’” Matthew 25:40. As always, our focus remains on children, senior adults, veterans and those who are homebound. Won’t you help? Again, our most humble thanks! May God bless you! Or you can visit our website ( and click on the “donate” button. If you would like to make a monetary donation to the Lord’s Harvest, please send your check to: The Lord’s Harvest, 911 Bailey Street, Mars Hill, NC 28754 However you might consider a gift, we want you to know that we are humbly grateful and very appreciative of your support, prayers, and love. Will you consider partnering with us to help continue this ministry to feed those who are hungry in Madison County? Perhaps you would consider a monthly gift which will be used together with the monthly gifts of others to allow us to budget what can be afforded on a monthly basis or perhaps you would consider a one time gift which would allow us to make additional staple food purchases which will provide much needed additional foods.
Once again we come to you asking for your help. These changes, as well as the rising costs of food, come at a cost. And we are continuing to serve over 750 families each month while working with many of our partner agencies. As we continue to weigh our possibilities, we believe God is still at work through The Lord’s Harvest. While we were able to get staple foods for a more reasonable price from MANNA, our best case scenario for staple foods going forward will be “at cost”. While we are still in the process of working out details, we believe we will be able to get some staple food items from this source and Bill will continue to search for potential sources for staple foods but continuing to provide potatoes, rice, pinto beans, and onion boxes. Bill then met with Performance Food (the company who supplies most of our potatoes, pinto beans, rice, and onions) to see how they could help. Ingeniously, our director, Bill Welsch, met with the manager of our local grocery and had worked out a plan to purchase staple foods when the company moved the manager and brought in someone who was unwilling to help. For us, that meant over 150 people would have had to be food certified: these changes were not realistically attainable.Īfter much prayer, we sadly ended our partnership with MANNA with a plan to find alternative sources to provide staple foods while we continued to provide potatoes, pinto beans, rice and onion boxes. This meant we could no longer take food to sites who would then take it out to folks in need in their communities, and 2) every person who touched food from start to finish would have to be food certified. 1)The Lord’s Harvest would no longer be allowed to “sub distribute”. There have been some changes since our last report and we want to tell you all about how God is working to provide.Īt the beginning of the year, MANNA Foodbank (an affiliate of Feeding America) made changes to their policies.
The first quarter has flown by and The Lord’s Harvest has been busy at work continuing to provide food to those who are hungry in Madison and surrounding counties.
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