After some time, thought and prayer I decided to move my charitable time to Mathew 25 Ministries today. The Talbert House “Fatherhood Project” was still not moving forward and although I know it will be a tremendous program I felt the need to contribute to the hurricane Harvey relief efforts at M25M. I will plan to stay in touch with Talbert House and give time as I can.
As I approached M25M today I could see cars backing up onto the road due to the tremendous outpouring of support from the community. It was even hard to find a spot in the volunteer parking lot, but I parked and within minutes was working and contributing. A typical day will see 30-40 volunteers but today there were well over 100. Every age group and ethnicity seemed to be present and focused on the chance to help those in need.
I have volunteered here in the past but I must say that I have never seen the building and the parking lot so energized and moving at a pace that was incredible. Pallets of clothing, water, medical supplies and cleaning products were filling up, getting shrink wrapped and moved in record time. And the tractor trailers were filling up within a couple of hours as opposed to maybe one per day. The time goes by so quickly and you meet some fantastic people in this environment, but the moment that I knew I had made the right choice was as I was leaving I drove along side one of the M25M trucks as it got onto I-71 South headed for Texas!
With gratitude,
Kevin