Dinner last night

How routine is that title?! Our dinner last night was not standard, but good. We helped cook dinner for some homeless families. There is a pretty cool national organization with a local arm here, WIHN. Although we've done a little when our church as sponsored in the past, this time we got to meet the families. We were really impressed with it all. It was a very easy, simple evening for us. We prepared a small amount of food and cleaned up at our church. Lil-M had fun playing with a few of the kids all evening. We really had no idea what to expect from the families. They were all very pleasant and enjoyable everyday sort of people, working to get back on their own. We have been amazed at how expensive it is to live around here. I can't imagine trying to support a family on a minimum, or near minimum, wage job. I looked at the stats and it's really unacceptable. According to the WIHN website, a worker making minimum wage cannot afford fair market rent anywhere in the US! I'm happy our church is participating and selected this as one of the few outreaches it can handle. Because of the small size it takes a fair effort from a large percentage of the people, but it's so simple to do and from what I can tell effective.