CNN Salutes Big Mama

Today, CNN welcomed Essie "Big Mama" Reed.

This beautiful creature in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, brings salvation to the needy every day.

When Hurricane Wilma struck, she was there.

She was there last Thursday to serve poor people and hurricane victims Thanksgiving dinner. She served the dinner in a vacant lot!

It is one of those great people on this planet who have little, give much too. She takes care of the down and out.

Read more about them andother activities for the victims in Fort Lauderdale for help: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/sfl-cthanks21nov21, 0.6952919. story? coll = SFLA-news-hurricane.

I called the Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce will receive an address, so that donations could be made Big Mama. They are closed on Saturday so I had no luck. If you have this information, please e-mail me and I will update this article.

Salt Lake City RescueMission

When I was a graduate student I was the Sunday school superintendent for our church. The adult class invited the then Director of the Salt Lake City Rescue Mission to the class. As he spoke to the class, I decided that I was looking at my first true Christian.

He said that his background was Catholic, as I remember, but that he did not push his personal views on others. He had one objective. He wanted to feed and give sleeping quarters to the vagrants on the streets of Salt Lake City. He wanted her out of the shelter right after breakfast and in line at the unemployment office.

He asked the class for food. He said: "Go into your basement and take some of the bottles of fruit you have not used and is not used." He asked for canned goods, flour, sugar, and what have you. He spoke of companies throwing away perfectly edible food that is needed and how he tried to change the company, this practice.

He said that everything inSimply put, and was as humble as a newborn lamb.

At this time the mission was by the post office and close the job center. There was pressure on the city force them to move the location of the task. Mayor Harold B. Lee said that this man was only doing something for such a tramp and that people should not bother to move it.

Now, move the mission and the path to employment was significantly longer. Some tramps do not just take the trouble togo there anymore.

The mission has a dinner, but first give up the tramps had a liquid, which was ceremoniously thrown into the sink. After dinner, the Director gave a short spiritual message and sent them to bed. In the morning they had their breakfast and were sent to visit the unemployment office.

The mission still works in the same way. There are restrictions as to who will and who does not concern about the health and safety. The restrictions to be doneDo not eat for meals and a shower.

I tried to call the Salt Lake mission. I wanted to get the name of the man, the director in 1962. The phone was busy all morning. The current director Steve consolation. The web URL is: http://www.rescuesaltlake.org/mission/. They take donations at the site.

Salvation Army

While the recent forest fires in Arizona, the Mormon Church and the Salvation Army were the first to reply. They were victims of feeding and housingmore than a week before other organizations came in.

Earlier this week I was talking with a small bell ringers, the Salvation Army that has on the streets of Twin Falls. She gave me a big hug and twice God Bless You. Giving can be fun!

The Salvation Army is one of the most powerful organizations in the world when it comes to relief efforts. While other organizations to pay large executive salaries, they have not. They are an army of volunteers. You always deserve our support.You can donate to: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn.nsf.

I am always amazed at the goodwill of the common people. Without resources, they often make great contributions to the down and out. Thursday, our little town fed hundreds of people Thanksgiving dinner. Donations were taken for the food bank to complete. A man who started this several years ago and it is a tradition here. The local church groups to serve people dinner in the city on Wednesday. There is never a restriction on who is fed intoour city.

Atlantic City Rescue Mission

An antidote before I leave you. When I was in New Jersey, we had to test the Atlantic City Rescue Mission our products. We went into the mission every few weeks to see how things were going.

For a time the manager told us that one of the patrons had been thrown into the mission, a plate, and gave the spirit to another patron in the head. The plate cut the poor recipient's forehead and fell to the ground - as well as the patron.

My questionwas, “Did the plate break?”

The answer was, “No.”

The URL for the Atlantic City Rescue Mission is: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn.nsf.

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