Monday, November 12, 2007

Smart Chicken

Back in July I received a forwarded email from my-soon-to-be-Uncle Steve that he had received from my-soon-to-be-Uncle Brad in Lincoln, Nebraska. The story was about a local Chicken plant that made a promise to deliver 2000 lbs of chicken a week to the City Mission for as long as they are in business.

The owner of Smart Chicken decided privately to share with the poor.

Apparently the City Mission has a distribution center that gives away food, clothes, and furniture to about 30,000 people a year. That's more than 10% of the population of Lincoln!

Uncle Brad pointed out in this email that with this donation, Lincoln might become the first city in America where "there is no hunger among the impoverished or the working poor." He explained that Pastor Tom of the City Mission was hoping that the momentum of this donation would encourage other businesses in Lincoln to make similar donations. That would be grand!

In his closing, Uncle Brad kept his hopes high and added, "When your town's Christian businesses are doing this let's talk about eliminating world hunger too!"

I'd like to simply add, "Let's do it!"

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