Sara Miles is Director of Ministry at Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. In that capacity, she oversees the congregation’s food pantry.
She sat down with Trinity Wall Street’s senior producer Jim Melchiorre to talk about food distribution, sacramentality, and courage.
Try to figure out why you’re [offering a food pantry]. Are you doing it to be good? Are you doing it to be nice to poor people? Or are you doing it because you want something that’s promised to you, which is abundant life? If you want abundant life and you want to open up how you understand the world, you’re not going to simply replicate a social service program; you’re going to try to actually go deeper into relationship with other people. And wherever you are, you can do that.
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