Just off Gallatin Rd.

Don't think for a second these ladies won't hook you up with a food box if you need it. And that's just the beginning. They run the Christian Cooperative Ministry in Madison. It's a food pantry and thrift store, supported by sixteen different churches in the surrounding community. Like everyone, they have some regular customers and some that are only temporarily needy or displaced. From left to right we have: Irene, Rose, Millie, Edyth, Irene, and The Captain, Flo.

Bakery

"Nothing is more degrading than hunger, especially when man made. It breeds anger, social disintegration, ill-health and economic decline.."
~ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Mission control

"My daughter says I should stop pointing at people when I talk. She says that means I really want them to listen. You know, you spend your life telling your kids what to do and the next thing you know, they're telling you." - Mrs. Elsie Smotherman, volunteer

In the photo, Mrs. Smotherman is speaking to (and pointing at) Mr. H.R. Brown, who along with his wife has been volunteering at East Nashville Cooperative Ministry for approximately nineteen years.

Bag lunch

Volunteers at East Nashville Cooperative Ministry on Main St., prepare twenty-five bag lunches for the homeless, four days a week.