The Doula Part

I am a Community Doula.

SOUTH LOOP COMMUNITY TABLE-
I love these two! Fellow pastors from different ministries that collaborate every Sunday night to host a meal that brings people from different walks of life together for nourishment and fellowship. I was asked to cater the dinner back in 2016 and I did every Sunday for about 7 months (until I got to about 8 months pregnant) and since having kids I’ve tried to share with them opportunities to rescue prepared food and I’ll cook every blue moon.

As the early days of COVID were passing by I felt the urge to prepare a meal for the South Loop Community Table so I reached out and we came up with a bbq cookout for the last Sunday before summer break, May 31. George Floyd’s murder and the outrage that followed took place during the week leading up to the meal and by that Sunday we were told we had to reschedule to Tuesday, June 3rd.

I woke up early early on that Tuesday morning, fired up the grill on my back porch and started grilling everything. A couple of my girlfriends came by to help pack things up and Pastor Ben came to pick up what was done and headed down to the church to meet Rich and the host of volunteers that make this initiative run so smoothly every week. I followed behind not long after with additional food, texting about the best route because of all the street closures due to the social uprisings and the city’s response.

I honestly didn’t intend to write this whole story 😂 I just think this picture of us is really cool and I’ll be posting more about the work I do to feed different communities in collaboration with some really awesome people.

RESULTS ARE IN: Your donation was out here WORKIN, y’all!

If you donated to the Feeding Moms Campaign over the summer then flip 👉🏾 to see what you contributed to. Spoiler alert: it was so much more than what we set out to do!

The initial goal was to feed 600 families in 12 weeks but as with everything, circumstance changes required some pivoting. But I think what has come from that initial goal is more than what we could have imagined. Do you agree?

If you started following me here because you liked the work of the campaign, you’ll love so be sure to follow the expansion there.

I’m so proud of what I was able to accomplish with getting this going. The “I” very quickly grew to “we” because this work CANNOT be done alone or with too much ego, believe me.

It’s the many new partnerships for me!! Make sure you check out all the tagged accounts, too.