Lee and Josh Sommerfeldt

My wife Lee and I decided to apply our donation where we think it is needed most this Christmas, in our home church community. Willowdale, North York has a high population of people living under the poverty line, many of which use Spring Garden Baptist Church as a means to get by. Spring Garden provides a food bank service to the community that is utilized heavily every week of the year. The Christmas season is when the demand is at its greatest. Lee and I are heavily involved with our church and knew that there was a great need in the surrounding area. I spoke with the Chairman of the Board of Deacons at Spring Garden on this subject recently, and he brought to my attention that the food bank is in dire need of replenishing. He informed us that a direct donation could be made to the food bank, ensuring that 100% of the funds would go solely to that cause.

After we had made our decision to give our donation to the food bank at Spring Garden Church, our Bible Study group, which consists of 5 other couples, decided to match us and give as well. BWI’s donation, along with ours and our groups’, will no doubt ensure a stocked up food bank and hopefully a happier Christmas for those in need in the Willowdale community. “If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” – 1 John 3: 17,18.
— Josh Sommerfeldt