Indiffierence Is Not An Option

I am a volunteer Director of the Supplemental Food Resource Center, a ministry of the Effort United Methodist Church in Effort, PA. This ministry is a short-term/emergency needs food pantry. We serve the West End community; on average 135 people a month receive food from our food pantry. Our hours of operation are from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m on Saturdays. We do not ask for financial verification. Our only requirements are the patron provides us with a valid driver’s license and they reside within the West End region of the Poconos.

When we offer help to someone in need, feed the hungry, and put forward an inviting atmosphere to our—neighbors---visitors—strangers—we are blessed by God. This is how we are to live. Not with blinders on, but giving straight from the heart. It goes right along with the greatest commandment—to Love others as ourselves. If we love, we give, and our giving has a ripple effect in our world.

The opposite of love is indifference. It is seeing starving people, and doing nothing. It is turning our heads to the hurting people on fixed incomes, the unemployed, the sick. It is seeing all of this and more and saying and doing nothing about it. Turning our heads. This, my friends, is the opposite of love. It is called indifference.

Our food pantry operates solely on the generosity of others. Donations are needed and appreciated. For further information, please contact the church office at 570-629-1890.