During Tuesday evening's AGM with our friends from SACY, a number of awards were distributed, to deserving youth who have faced their fears, and overcome all kinds of obstacles. Even for those of us who work with these folk every couple of weeks, this was a wonderful opportunity to learn some more about the special care that is taken to welcome all who knock at their doors and to find a place for all those who need their help.
Most surprising of the evening though was the fact that they had chosen us, the Beech Street Community Kitchen, as the recipients of this year's Alleen and James Grassby Volunteer Appreciation Award for the work we have done, and will continue to do with them.
Over the past year, we ourselves have recognized so many reasons to give thanks for these wonderful people who come to our kitchen. They share their lives with increasing freedom with us as we all learn to trust one another, and to work together to do what we can to take care of one another. One day at a time, we do what we can, and the benefits of this work far outweigh the efforts expended.
We are honored by this gesture of recognition, but it is we ourselves who must thank our friends at SACY for having given us another opportunity to know Christ in the needy of our world, and to recognize yet another example of our own need for dependence on the grace of our God.
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