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The Sack Lunch PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2005 (message contributor)
THE SACK LUNCH
A man was packing a shipment of food contributed by a school for the poor people of Appalachia. He was separating beans from powdered milk, and canned vegetables from canned meats.
Reaching into a box filled with various cans, he pulled out a little brown paper sack. Apparently one of the pupils had brought something different from the items on the suggested list. Out of the paper bag fell a peanut butter sandwich, an apple, and a cookie. Crayoned in large letters was a little girl’s name, ’Christy -- Room 104’. She had given up her lunch for some hungry person.
One little lunch made a difference. One little lunch touched lives.
Small things in the hands...
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