Most days, MacLeod does the work all by herself, unless a volunteer is available to ride along and lend a hand with the lifting and stacking. Ken Brown, a retired Southfield urologist, rides along with a driver one day a week and helps with the loading and deliveries. Gas, especially, is just killing us right now. It breaks my heart to look out the window and see a van sitting idle in the parking lot. Agencies such as Love Joy, a neighborhood church run by Pastor Willie Walker Jr. and his wife, Minnie, greet McLeod with big hugs and wide smiles as church members happily help unload the food from her van.
People come from all over the city to get fed.
I don't know what we'd do without Beth and Forgotten Harvest. And now that the weather is better, we're seeing even more people. Just Love, a Detroit shelter and ministry for the homeless, is the next stop, where Glen Evans, a church missionary, and Dr. Vernon Rayford, Just Love's founder, are finishing up feeding those who have gathered in the front room. Evans shows off the impeccably clean kitchen where the church staff prepares the daily meal. Kids take a break from their basketball game to help unload the food and take it to a room for distribution.