Breakfast served seven days a week to the unhoused of New Orleans inside the St Jude Community Center. For many it is an opportunity to eat, receive 3 items of clothing, find respect, love and fellowship and hear about other available resources.
All are welcomed, EXCEPT those who have broken rules inside Grace at the Greenlight and have been expelled. Once expelled; always expelled. However, Grace abounds in the fact they still receive breakfast on the outside. They are patrolled and separated from the privileged unhoused, much like the goats from the sheep.
During TBC’s Mission Trip to New Orleans, Bernie Pegram served on the outside. She was charged with the task to give the expelled unhoused their breakfasts. Some received their breakfast without any eye contact. Others took theirs in a grab-and-run fashion. Brokenness. Shame. Outcast. Hopeless. Living on the Outside comes at such a high cost. Is there any hope to ever be accepted again on the “sheep” side of the crowd? Beyond that, is there any hope for restoration of body, soul, mind and spirit? In the words of Christ,
“The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” (Luke 18:27)
