In downtown Lower Lake on Second Street there is a beautiful little church whose building is over 100 years old. It is Lower Lake”s Community United Methodist Church.
This church does many things to help the community: Collects money for shoes for needy children in the area; has a food pantry to supply food for the hungry; prepares lunch for Habitat for Humanity workers; provides food baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas for those in need; sends gifts to the abused women”s shelter; has a meeting place for hospice training, AA and NA meetings; and has a Thrift shop to help the community. The church also helps with world projects like helping people recover from hurricanes, famines, earthquakes and other disasters.
The United Methodist Women held a bake sale a couple of weeks ago. There were homemade cookies, pies, cakes, jam and plants to sell. The $400 made from the sale was intended to help the needy and was held in a metal cash box on a table.
Someone took the $400. But that person or persons did not steal money from the little historical church, they stole the food out of the mouth of a starving child in Africa. They did not steal money from the pastor of the Church, they stole a warm blanket from around the shoulders of a person left homeless by a flood, tornado or hurricane in America.
They did not steal money from the hard working women of the Lower Lake Church, they stole the shoes from the feet of a poor child in downtown Clearlake. In stealing this $400, they may well have stolen the very life of a child who will die from hunger.
Dee Parker
Lower Lake
