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Help Feed Hungry Children

Boy enjoying meal at Bosco Food Kitchen.

July 25. 2008 -- I imagine many of the children who came to Jesus for a blessing looked much like the children who come to Bosco Food Kitchen every day.

Some are clearly underweight, others have been a few days from a bath. Many have experienced more grief in their young lives than we will ever know.

Troubled Economy Affecting Edmundite Missions

One of the little ones picked up for preschool in Vredenburgh.

June 30. 2008 -- Our troubled economy is sending shock waves through the country.

While sitting here writing this letter, I am fighting an uphill battle to feed, clothe and aid the rural poor...

No Child Should Suffer Hunger

June 6, 2008 -- It breaks my heart to see a child go hungry.

You won’t see them if you are traveling along the interstate highways. You won’t see them when you drive two-lane county roadways. You have to get off main roads and back into the fields and woods...

Hunger Doesn't Take a Break

May 14, 2008 -- As I worry about hungry schoolchildren and neighbors, Mary Gayle, our Bosco Food Kitchen cook, knocks nervously at my office door. I can tell she doesn’t want to come in. I know if she is asking for help it’s big trouble, because she has been making do on a tight budget for over 20 years...

Please Help Feed Hungry Children in Rural Alabama

April 22, 2008 -- I just got back from the Selma Food Bank. I had gone to see what food was on hand for our feeding programs for the very poor. I could scarcely believe my eyes. There was no meat, no beans, no rice, no vegetables. I could see it was the worst shortage in years.

Preschool in Vredenburgh

April 2, 2008 -- “Is it time? Is it time for school?” Tyesha Franklin asks her mother at least 10 times each morning. The three-year-old loves Edmundite Missions’ preschool in her small isolated community of Vredenburgh. She hops, skips and runs to the van when it arrives to pick her up. “She cries on the days there’s no school,” said her mother, Marisa.

Violent Tornados in Alabama

March 11, 2008 -- "I don’t know how we survived. Only God knows,” said Geraldine Hanson, as she showed me her mother's devastated trailer, shattered by one of nine violent tornadoes that crashed through Alabama during the last two and a half weeks.