Letters: 12-20-15

Published 4:00 am Sunday, December 20, 2015

Feed by Faith

    My name is Ms. Johnnie Delk. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the management and staff of Feed by Faith for allowing me to volunteer my services within their organization.

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    Mrs. Peggy Coleman and her daughter, Felicia Outlaw, are such kind and compassionate people. I have seen extended, and received personally, the care and concern that they demonstrate on a daily basis to those in need who frequent their establishment. The meals are always hot, served with a kind word, and done so in a very orderly and clean dining area.

    My life has been enriched in ways too numerous to name during my tenure of volunteer services at Feed by Faith. I have experienced tremendous joy while serving, and extending a hand of help, and hope to the clients who may at times feel that there is none.

    Feed by Faith is much more than a place to receive help in the form of food for the body. Felicia Outlay makes certain that spiritual help, food for the soul, is offered as well via the study of God’s Holy Word. She is adamant in extending guidance to those in need and consistent in reminding them that they too have a fighting chance for a better life.

    It is truly a pleasure to be a volunteer at Feed by Faith. And I offer my sincere and heartfelt thanks for this most honorable opportunity to be a part of the ministry that Feed by Faith provides.

Yours truly,

Johnnie Delk

United Way

    We wish to thank everyone who helped on the United Way campaign. Our sincere thanks and appreciation also goes to all the people who donated.

    It is hard to decide who needs help the most, a child who starts life’s struggle with the burden of a handicap, or the elderly person trying to spend their last days with dignity, or families caught in the tangle of circumstance, or people out of work and out of hope. Giving to United Way assures that people that need help get help, it assures that the money given during each year’s campaign goes as far as it can to help as many people as possible.

    Many people do not realize that agencies providing services to the mentally and physically handicapped, emotionally troubled, the aged and the sick might not be available if it were not for the United Way, also community programs, CPR training, mental health programs,scouting, family services and medical programs. These and dozens of others are here for all of us. Now more than ever the agency needs your increased support, not simply as an act of giving, but an act of helping those in need.     Perhaps we cannot help each individual as we would like, but we can reach out to them throughout the collective resources of United Way. Your contribution is an investment in people, and no other investment has such a high rate of return.

     Finally, there are many ways United Way helps, but only if you help because without you there is no WAY.

Maureen Files

Meridian