SEEING THE FACE OF CHRIST

By Deacon Ted Brenneman (Diocese of Burlington)
(excerpts)

For months a copy of the Deacon Digest had lain open on my desk to a page with an ad for deacons to visit the poor in Jamaica. The tours were sponsored by a charitable organization called Food For The Poor and they were free for deacons! Mary (my wife) had looked at it too and was interested but neither of us did anything.

Then one day I resolved to clean my desk…next thing I knew I was on the phone talking to Deacon Jack Pierce at Food For The Poor…he assured me that the trip was really free, and added that the experience would change my life and that of Mary as well. I took this last assurance with a grain of salt….

Since that first trip in 2003, we have returned twice to Jamaica, taking each time one of our children along with their family. These visits to the poor have been so powerful that one of our daughters and two of our grandchildren asked to be baptized in the Caribbean Sea by the priest who accompanies Food For The Poor!

Deacons and wives, do not pass up this opportunity!

FFTP note….Deacon Ted sponsored a fishing village in Jamaica. THANKS AGAIN TED &MARY