We know the Urban Bicycle Food Ministry: they’re a group of angels.
Loving Iowans who take it upon themselves to buy, make, and deliver food and supplies to Des Moines’ homeless out on the streets and in camps around the city. We’re talking about the people who don’t go to shelters. They’re outside — even in this weather — and so the Ministry is, too, every Thursday night.
On this particular Thursday, the basement of the Capitol Hill Lutheran Church was positively buzzing — like a hive of fluorescent-clad worker bees.
They cooked food, made sandwiches, packed bags, folded up warm clothes and sleeping mats, and then loaded it all into waiting vans.
“We’ll make 800 burritos, 400 turkey and cheese sandwiches, 400 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; and we’ll also hand out fruit, water,” says volunteer, Robby Collier.