Working with Fields of Faith was a great opportunity for our new church. The times we spent as a team working in the fields harvesting, pulling weeds, and planting were great times of bonding and working together toward a common purpose.
An even greater impact for our church was the opportunity to distribute fresh produce to friends and neighbors throughout the Iowa City area. One of our families was able to build relationships with their neighbors through weekly distributing fresh produce, including a family with ten children. Others in our church were able to build relationships with their neighbors or co-workers or fellow students on campus through the produce.
Fields of Faith provided our church with great opportunities to strengthen relationships within our team and to makes connections with neighbors and people in need in our community.
Just as we began to ask the question of where we would find enough food to fulfill the needs of our community through our “All Things Common” pantry ministry, God connected us to Fields of Faith. Just like the 5 loaves and 2 fish, each week as we thanked God for his provision the baskets seemed to overflow!
We were able to feed hungry mothers and children, take groceries to neighbors who had no idea where their next meal would come from, offer God’s good provision to widows, to those recovering from major illness, for families, and to our whole neighborhood through a community produce stand. Each week our neighbors would come to the church looking forward to fresh produce to stretch their grocery budgets and were invited to taste and see that the Lord is good.
Not only that, but teens were also taught life skills as they learned to preserve the summer harvest in our teen internship program, and our community meals thrived with healthy farm fresh veggies. We thank God for his abundant provision through the work and generosity of Fields of Faith.
