All of you generous people are smart not gullible because the bible says what ever you do for the least of us you do for Him.
There are two men who sit in the entrance to our supermarket. They don't look hungry because we have a place that feeds them but I made them both knitted scarves because it was cold and they didn't have any. So many of you make charitable gifts.
We have two foreign born women one old one young who collect recycle bottles all over the area day and night. We save our bottles for them and once month I give them $20.
It's also nice to give young people trying to get through school a good tip.they are the working poor.
Lastly, it steams my glasses that our government is generous with foreign
countries but we have Katrina survivors and homeless and unemployed just making it working families and our government is not effective. Church
members and those of us who are barely getting by have to do it. Im not saying kindness to those in other countries is not a good thing. Ijust wonder how ourgreat nation can have needs that the government is not dealing with. There's something wrong here!
Adding, giving to a food pantry each time we get monthly groceries would be a way to reach out to people too proud to ask on the streets.
I'm cautious about giving money to alcoholics or drug addicts because it keeps them in their addictions and if they don't reach a bottom they don't get better. God expects us to help them by not enabling them. He will then bring them to sobriety. I don't want to get in His way. It's confusing but not helping them is helping them get to recovery.