“Not all of us can do great things,” said Mother Teresa, “but we can do small things with great love.”
With vastly increased funding and policing, Philadelphia’s new mayor is beginning to do great things in the beleaguered Kensington community, where rampant drug trafficking, tragic violence and daunting despair have long reigned. But a ministry operating out of Lighthouse Fellowship United Methodist Church in Glenside, PA, has been doing small things with great love outside of Kensington’s Hope Park for about eight years.
A small team of street ministry servants from Shores of Grace Philly shows up every other Sunday afternoon for just over an hour on Ella Street, outside the fence surrounding Hope Park. Under watchful eyes, they set up tables and boxes on the uneven sidewalk and give out food and other needed items while conversing with whoever comes by. Read More
