Serve Food and Serve Using Food

I love my church.

One thing I love about my church is how when people have babies or people are sick, lots of people pitch in and bring food to those families. It must help a lot for new moms (or moms with a couple kids and a new baby) or families who are fighting cancer to not have to worry about all the groceries and cooking for a few weeks.

Usually the meals get organized with a stream of emails, going back and forth. Though this process seems to work fine, a friend who moved out of state to another church that also does 'the meal thing' said that the women at her new church took care of things online. She loved it because she was able to put any food allergies or favorites right on the website. It also helps with delivery scheduling and meal planning (you are prompted to enter what meal you plan on bringing so that the receiving family has a better chance of not eating chicken for weeks on end). Also, those contributing to the effort of feeding a family aren't inundated with emails in the inbox, but rather are directed to one website. Pretty great. I ran across the website, and thought I'd pass it on: Food Tidings.

I hope this is helpful for anyone who is usually put in charge of things like this. Or maybe it will inspire you to be in charge of a thing like this. It is an awesome way to serve a family.