Making a difference
As an organisation our key aim is to carry on with the work we do, and to do more. We’re not involved in rehabilitation, rehousing or reforming – just helping. We don’t see the people who come to our meals or accept our food parcels as our caseload - though often they become our friends.
And we don’t monitor their progress or collect their personal information in a big file, we just know their first name and sometimes where they live. But we do know that we make a difference to many people’s lives. We can tell that by the look on their face and the things they tell us. And now and then we’ll receive a letter or a note from someone we’ve helped that reminds us why our work is important.
This poem was written by one of our friends.
And we don’t monitor their progress or collect their personal information in a big file, we just know their first name and sometimes where they live. But we do know that we make a difference to many people’s lives. We can tell that by the look on their face and the things they tell us. And now and then we’ll receive a letter or a note from someone we’ve helped that reminds us why our work is important.
This poem was written by one of our friends.
Ask the thirsty why they’ve no water, or turn on the tap?
Ask the lost why they’re wandering, or draw them a map?
Ask the drowning why they’re struggling, or throw them a line?
Ask the hungry why they’re starving, or lead them into dine?
We say it’s not our problem as we give opinion voice
It may not be our problem but it’ll always be our choice.
So ‘til the day that He returns, bringing Love and His Holy Word,
Let’s disturb the comfortable to comfort the disturbed.
And give the homeless people a place to lay their head,
Tell every nation’s victims their children will be fed.
Change our way of thinking, make a plough of every sword,
And testify the simple truth that Jesus is our Lord.
His love for us, beyond compare, let it be our guiding code,
And may we love each other thus as we walk this narrow road.
For in the end we will be asked if we have played our part,
And we’ll be judged upon that day o what is in our heart.
Ask the lost why they’re wandering, or draw them a map?
Ask the drowning why they’re struggling, or throw them a line?
Ask the hungry why they’re starving, or lead them into dine?
We say it’s not our problem as we give opinion voice
It may not be our problem but it’ll always be our choice.
So ‘til the day that He returns, bringing Love and His Holy Word,
Let’s disturb the comfortable to comfort the disturbed.
And give the homeless people a place to lay their head,
Tell every nation’s victims their children will be fed.
Change our way of thinking, make a plough of every sword,
And testify the simple truth that Jesus is our Lord.
His love for us, beyond compare, let it be our guiding code,
And may we love each other thus as we walk this narrow road.
For in the end we will be asked if we have played our part,
And we’ll be judged upon that day o what is in our heart.