Our 20,000th Sack Lunch

When you support Filling The Void, you’re helping us serve

up hope. This gentleman received our 20,000th sack lunch.

A GIFT FOR GARY

While we’ve never done a lot of PR to promote Filling The Void, we do like to make a big deal out of the days when we’re going to surpass a significant milestone.

For example, we handed out our 10,000th sack lunch on July 11, 2007. From that point, it only took us only 14 months to get ready to celebrate sack lunch No. 20,000.

That day turned out to be Sept. 12. We stuffed the special bag with extra cookies and fruit bars and one of Arby’s larger market-fresh turkey sandwiches instead of the usual roast beef.

Our crowds have been smaller lately after we made a couple of major changes to our ministry schedule in Tulsa (serving on Fridays instead of Wednesdays and moving from a public park to a private parking lot), so we weren’t sure who or how many would show up that day.

One of the first people to emerge through the serving line of about 40 folks was a soft-spoken man named Gary.

He got the 20,000th bag, all right, and a whole lot of love and handshakes. We also loaded him down with a new Bible, a devotional book, and a men’s journal in an effort to lift up his life.