Lunch Is An Essential Ministry

Why Lunch

Lunch is an essential part of the Evangeline Ministries program, just how much I recently learned.
For this year and in our partnership with the Masiphumelele Corporation and Trust, EM has agreed to help a local woman from Masiphumelele start a bakery and food small business.  This means that Wendy no longer prepares the daily lunch but happily receives it from Nonni.  For Nonni it is a learning process and we have had a few bumps along the way.  This week we had quite a bump.  The young lady tasked with delivering the lunch was new and gave the sandwiches to another group.  Hungry themselves they ate the lunch.  After we sorted out what had happened I went to purchase some  food but before I did, I asked the women if I really needed  to buy more food.  Yes they told me and then one woman said something that so moved me: "I had no breakfast ." she said.  I recalled when we decided to give the women lunch that the teachers told me that so many of them have no breakfast or lunch.  This helped me make up my mind  and our Board agreed that we must give a nutritious lunch.  This is a lifeline, needed food for the women as they work hard to acquire the skills to help them move forward in life.  So we are both helping Nonni and all of the women who are a part of our class.