The Christian season of Lent begins on Feb. 17 and the month of March has long been established as “March for Food” for the hungry.
Both are great Christian opportunities to ask, “WWJD (What would Jesus Do)” to end hunger? We in Caledonia and Houston County have been very blessed by God with the gifts of food. It is very hard for us to vision the fact that in the world, a human person dies every five seconds from starvation or the results of starvation. Obviously in our beloved area, we do not see this happening.
None the less, the effects of hunger are very real in our beloved area. The truth is that in Minnesota, including Houston County, there are over one million Minnesotans living in households that are struggling to put food on the table on a daily basis. Hunger in a community affects everyone in that community. For some, the food shelf is the only help available.
Hunger is the physical and mental condition that comes from not eating enough food due to insufficient economic, family or community resources. Hunger is one item that we can end in Houston County by working together and supporting our local Food Shelf. Lent and March are excellent opportunities to really put a major dent in ending hunger by donating food or cash to our local food shelf.
Our local food shelf is located at 138 East Main Street, Caledonia, phone 725-3677. If you wish, there are food collection carts in many churches in the area. If we all do our share of helping our neighbors by donating food or cash each week during Lent (which includes March), we will be doing WWJD?
It is well known that many of you have and continue to contribute to Haiti and/or similar very needy causes. This is really great and you are doing WWJD their also.
We should all remember that God blessed us with our many gifts so that we can take these opportunities to share our blessing with all of our neighbors. God bless all that hunger for food and help us all to share our many blessings.
Larry Salm
Caledonia, Minn.
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