Sunday after worship, we bagged toilet paper.
St. Mark’s cooperates with the Shelby Help Line to provide for those in need, and every Christmas (sort of a tradition) we end up assigned toilet paper. The point, of course, is that people who receive government assistance (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—SNAP, usually called “food stamps”) cannot use the benefits to buy non-food items such as laundry detergent, shampoo, or toilet paper. That is where we come in.
The toilet paper is given out in packages of four rolls, but when you buy in bulk, you get much bigger packages, often 36 or so. And that is why, after church, we took toilet paper out of big bags and put it in smaller bags—117 packages of four rolls each.
And it turned out to be a lot of fun. When you work with people, you build relationships.
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