Lunch for 10K with no reservations?
12 March 2007 - 23 אדר 5767 by Huw
VIA The Inclusive Church Blog we learn about Sikh ministry:
Every Sikh temple throughout the world has a Langar (Punjabi for “free kitchen”). This is not a soup kitchen. It’s not exclusively for the poor, nor exclusively for the Sikh community. Volunteering in the cooking, serving and cleaning process is a form of active spiritual practice for devotees, but the service they provide asks no religious affiliation of its recipients. Our guide’s chorus was, “Man, woman, color, caste, community,” meaning you will be fed here regardless of how you fit into any of those classifications. This spirit of inclusion and equality is reinforced by the kitchen’s adherence to vegetarianism, not because Sikhs are vegetarian, but because others who visit may be, and by serving no meat, they exclude nobody.
Read the whole article on World Changing
Giving away food without any strings - theological, political, economic - and without stigma is also a Christian ministry although we tend to apply strings or social stigma. “Soup kitchen” says something very different to our western ears than “Bodega” or even “food pantry”.
