Aaron's Story: Husband & Father Writing a New Story
Aaron, his wife Shellie, and their two small kids began showing up to our weekly food outreach about six months ago.
Every Tuesday we rent a truck, pick up food, and have a distribution right on our corner. It’s a valuable time of connection with our neighbors when, over the span of a few hours, regulars and new faces come to have a practical need met. It’s a time we offer prayer, share Jesus, give out coffee and guide people to resources they need to help their journey.
Ultimately we get to know people's stories and they get to know ours.
And sometime’s the food outreach is an inroad to bigger story only God can author.
It wasn’t too long ago when I overheard Shellie tell Aaron, “I know this is a good place. See how Mr. John loves his son Max?”
I was shocked, but realized something profound: People are always watching how you love. We are all about building trust and genuine relationships with our neighbors through struggles, times of scarcity, and brokenness.
Just a few weeks later, I was shocked again when Shellie reached out for recovery help and came to a meeting. From there she was plugged in with a female recovery leader. When she recently had another baby, some ladies from the recovery meeting gifted them baby clothes and a blanket.
Greenhouse Project has helped Aaron’s family with recovery, food, baby supplies, and relational support that they consider—like many of our neighbors do—to be a lifeline. A trusted, reliable place of support.
You never know where, when or how your life will intersect with people. So we do our best to leave neighbors on a better path towards love. We keep pointing Aaron and his family to Jesus Christ, the ultimate Hope for the lost broken world! God knows what the next chapter holds for them…
For now, Aaron tells us, “Greenhouse Project is just a few blocks away from us. I wouldn’t go anywhere else.”
