In the afternoon she walks over to another trailer and shifts to relief work. About 14 families stop by each month for canned and packaged goods from the food pantry. The clientele shifts from month to month because families cannot draw food more often than one month out of three. Still, when someone drives up and pokes a head through the door, Sister Scheiber usually recognizes them. Occasionally, she helps someone with rent.
Someone stops by now and then for spiritual advice.
She feels most comfortable attacking problems one human being at a time. In this respect, she resembles many church leaders, rural and urban. Heyliger says he accepts the divine imperative to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit those who are sick and in prison. And I think we are prepared to work very hard, in the context of the community as a village, to take care of those amongst us. However, when people do not enjoy a decent standard of living and can barely make it themselves, trying to help somebody else staggers the imagination.