food and friends
The Simple Gift of Food
Editor’s Note: DC Service Corps volunteer David Adah-Ogoh reflects on the sacramental nature of community dinners at Casa San Salvador and preparing meals with Food and Friends. For as the rain and the snows fall from the heavens and do not return there, but water the earth, giving seed to the sower and bread to…
Food and Friends and Photography
Editor’s note: Recognizing that we can practice Franciscan values in all aspects of life and work, DC Service Corps volunteer Jarrett Murano practices humility by centering the desires of the client in his graphic design ministry at Food & Friends. At Food & Friends, one of my current projects is to make postcards to reach…
Designing My Ministry of Presence
Editor’s note: Through his ministry at Food & Friends, DC Service Corps volunteer Jarrett Murano both designs communications materials and makes food deliveries of medically-tailored groceries to clients who live with life-challenging illnesses. He views both parts of his ministry as accompaniment. The holiday season is always a great time to reflect. There’s something about…
Ears to Listen: My Ministry of Presence
Editor’s note: Our new class of DC Service Corps volunteers will each be reflecting on a way that they resonate with Franciscan Mission Service’s mission and spirituality. Jarrett Murano shares how his ministry of presence is lived out at his ministry site, Food and Friends, which delivers medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy to…