About 1 month into Covid lockdown in 2020, here’s an article I wrote in our newsletter back then. Although the newsletter was in August, the article highlighted the massive pivoting they had to do to keep to their vision.
Ira Bryock tells the story of anthropologist Margaret Meade. “…she was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. Expecting talk about fishhooks, clay pots or grinding stones, Margaret replied, “A femur (thighbone) that had been broken and healed. In the animal kingdom, if you break a leg, you die. You can’t drink from the river, hunt or run from danger. A healed femur is evidence that someone stayed with the one who fell, bound up the wound, carried them to safety and tended the person through recovery.”
As we’ve worked with many organizations through this pandemic, I am always amazed at the ingenuity, tireless energy and positive nature of these organizations that have taken what has been thrown at them, pivoted sometimes daily and kept going. But then this morning I found out more….You see, I got that quote from the newsletter of the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen. Many of you reading this newsletter are mentioned in the August edition as organizations who have taken the time, energy and money to donate, assist, help and keep Daily Bread Soup Kitchen pursuing their mission to feed the hungry of this community. Despite the work that had to be done to keep your organizations going, you kept DBSK going to the tune of 250 or more meals a day.
Currently they are running about 300 people that they feed. I remember reading Start with Why by Simon Sinek. When the lockdown occurred their “why” was still feed the homeless. So they did, amidst the mess that was the lock down. They knew their mission and figured out ways to continue to feed the most vulnerable in this town. Hat’s off to them!
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