Estamos Unidos Imagine feeling unsafe in your neighborhood. Imagine not fitting in with your peers. Imagine being discriminated against because of the color of your skin. Imagine experiencing food insecurity. Imagine encountering language and cultural barriers every day. Now imagine having a place to go where you know you’ll be ok. Imagine connecting with others…
In his book “Having Nothing, Possessing Everything,” the Rev. Michael Mather poses this question: “What does it look like to live as if the gospel were true?” When you visit Tricklebee Café, you find an answer. Located in a Milwaukee neighborhood that has experienced violence and neglect, Tricklebee is a pay-what-you-can community café offering healthy…
For over forty years Sunnyside Ministry’s food pantry has been living Matthew 25:35. “For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.” The pantry is a source of food security for many in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Winston-Salem, NC. It’s open five days a week and often provides food to as many as…
When Jesus blessed one boy’s humble gift of two fishes and five loaves, it was made to feed thousands. And there were twelve baskets of leftovers! Your generosity through the Moravian Ministries Foundation in America (MMFA) is blessed too! Your gifts to the Moravian Hunger & Thirst Field of Interest Fund on the Moravian Day…
According to Feeding America, in 2020 at least 60 million people received food from food banks, food pantries, and other private charitable food programs. However, thanks to the overwhelming public and private response to hunger in the United States, in its recent Household Food Security in the United States in 2020 report, the USDA shared…
By Lydian Bernhardt Averitt Rev. Russ Post-May stood on the front porch of the Sunnyside Avenue house known as Anthony’s Plot recently, cell phone in hand, and watched the activity down the street, beyond the band of yellow caution tape roping off the area. A tragedy had occurred in the night. The space heater that…