5th Grade Gleans Corn
Posted: 14-Nov-2011 Category: Outreach
Fifth grade students enjoyed a beautiful fall day at Scotts Farm in Zellwood gleaning fresh sweet corn for the hungry in Central Florida. Forty students and 22 parents and teachers walked rows and rows of fields hand gathering the leftover sweet corn crop left in the field by the professional harvesters. Like Ruth in the Bible, they learned how this gleaned food can sustain the poor, the orphaned and the widow. They got to see their “faith in action” as they worked ALL morning in the field! The count at the end? 8000 ears of corn were given to local food pantries and agencies that feed the hungry. A load of sweet corn even went to Gainesville!
Thank you to the coordinators at the local faith-based ministry, Society of St. Andrews, who sustain this gleaning network throughout Central Florida. It was a day of service we will ALL remember!
“When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand.” Deuteronomy 24:19
Thank you to the coordinators at the local faith-based ministry, Society of St. Andrews, who sustain this gleaning network throughout Central Florida. It was a day of service we will ALL remember!
“When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand.” Deuteronomy 24:19
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