passion project:: feed the hungry

I pray that my story touches your heart. My dad was an addict. He was addicted to anything and everything. His drugs of choice were alcohol, pills, cocaine, or really anything that would get him high. As a small child you can not fully understand the depth of addiction. My family split up several times when i was young because of addiction. My daddy would be gone for days and weeks at a time, lost in addiction.  One day specifically, my daddy was so suicidal, shaking from withdrawls, that he began to beg God, "if you are real, help me" "God if you are real, dont let me live another day like this". God heard his cry... he said that, that day while laying there shaking from drug withdrawls, he felt like someone was washing him with a warm cloth from head to toe.  Believe it or not, when he woke up, he was instantly healed from addiction! He never returned back to his addictions.  Shortly after that, we packed up our things and moved so my dad could go to ministry school. We moved 8 hours away from our family, friends, and sold our brand new home so that he could attend ministry school. It made no sense to people, but it was Gods will for our lives. IT CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER! After being a part of a major move of God in pensacola FL, we moved back to our hometown, Anderson SC. Our family has a HEART for the streets. My dad walked the streets sharing the gospel to addicts for years after graduation. We have a burning heart for the unloved, the addicts, the homeless, the hungry and the fatherless. There are two types of hungry.. hungry physically for food, and hungry for love. We want to love the unloved. Over the years my parents have made major impacts on the community.. at a wonderful, local organization they led a group called "kings table" for six years where they would feed anyone and everyone who were hungry. They led "Kings Closet", a program that would clothe anyone in need. Finally, they led "Kings cupboard". Kings cupboard would provide families with canned and packaged food for the week so they wouldnt go hungry. Countless times we've seen addiction destroy families.  Being a mother myself, it makes me cringe to think of sweet innocent children, going to bed without a meal. Addiction would cause parents to feed their addiction, instead of their children. WE WANT TO STOP IT.  Our reason for needing, is to grow and expand to be able to make more of an impact for the impoverished community. Our church is named Passion Church. It is a church that is going after God with our whole heart. A body of believers not satisfied in the outer court. Believing God to pour out miracles,signs and wonders. Bringing the lost to Jesus and going deeper in the revelation of who God says we can be in him.

Jeremiah 29:13 you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.  Right now we are a small store front church, and we are grateful. Every single member has the same heart for the streets. We currently transport everything to the "streets" to do outreach events and feed the community, everything we give is out of pocket, or clothing donations. My parents are the most humble and deserving people on the planet. In fact, they have no idea that i am doing this.  They never try to glorify the things they have done.  I know, and others know, they have impacted countless lives. The drug addicts and homeless, call my dad their pastor when they see him. A pastor is not just a sunday and wednesday "speaker". In my opinion, a pastor is someone who will come find you when youre gone, wash you off and set you back on your feet. If someone goes missing, my daddy will go find them, INSIDE the drug houses, passed out on street corners, sometimes even in ditches. I am in AWE knowing that he's literally helped people change their lives forever. 

Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.'…

Addiction is a sad life to live, its a waste of life. These people need to be tended to regularly. The money will go to changing our streets one life at a time. It will feed, cloth, and help us to grow and expand. Will you help us take back our city from addiction, and poverty? Is there not a cause? This life can be SO rewarding, if we lay down our wants to furnish other peoples needs.

(attaching pics of our last outreach, we fed approx 250 people off the streets, gave away 200 coats,20,000 hugs and smiles, gloves, hats, blankets... etc) THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

above is the items that we gathered for the outreach.



a sweet baby girl that i had the pleasure of loving at the outreach :)



above is the people who attended.. We had the outreach in a parking lot, and these people walked up the streets to get here.



above: the blankets we gave out



above: the food line. To eat, they had to pay us with a hug instead of money.



above: Desperate for the love of God.



Above: my parents. Pastors of passion. They have now been in the ministry for 18 years.

Any donations over our "goal" will be used for the same purpose.