The snow was falling as 2 semi-loads of food pulled up from Feed the Children. They were greeted by hundreds of volunteers ready to unload, process, label, and deliver 50 tons of food to almost 900 Lenawee County families.
The stories brought back by the delivery teams are remarkable:
“We knocked at the door of our first family’s delivery. The woman answering the door just stood and stared. Tears came to her eyes and she poured out her gratitude for the additional food. We all stood together crying and hugging.”
“I wasn’t going to do any deliveries, but agreed when we started running short on drivers. I was so blown away by the thankfulness of the box recipients, I came back and took another load for delivery.”
And this thank you from a recipient:
“I just received the project share Christmas box. I want to say THANK YOU
so much. I just ran out of toilet paper and paper towels. I just said that
I needed to go buy some and the gentleman and 2 girls showed up with the
boxes.
I haven’t been feeling good about myself, and have been depressed. A lot of
things have been going on in my life. When I opened one box it had some
Avon things in there that I could never afford or wouldn’t buy because of
the price. It was for wrinkles. Well I just started crying when I opened
these boxes feeling blessed. There were things to put in water to drink
that were sugar-free. One of my sons is a juvenile diabetic so he can drink
them.”
And this from a family that donated and participated this past Saturday:
“We decided to give to Project Share in the name or in honor of our parents and in honor of our boys’ school teachers. The boys have each made a homemade ornament for each grandparent and teacher. We are going to give those to each along with the small Project Share cards, including a little note that lets them know that we donated to this cause in their names. We are going to include the newspaper article and some pictures as well. “
