Bakers On Wheels

Minge Pointer, the director of and force behind Bakers On Wheels, is a Christian with physical and mental disabilities which preclude her from working full-time, or outside the home, or according to a set schedule. Yet the desire to advance Jesus’ message and to exercise her mind and body remains.
The idea of Bakers On Wheels came after Minge awoke from a month-long coma, glad to be alive but with limited physical movement and control. The mental and physical steps required to bake bread helped her initially to regain mobility, and to maintain it.

Bread, being a symbol in the church, and a staple needed for human existence, makes a wonderful tool for her purposes -- to spread God’s love and provide an outlet for handicapped adults to keep their bodies and minds active.

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Eleven year old feeding the hungry

As a fifth-grader, Jack Davis learned about how government works, even drafting pretend legislation in his social studies class.
A year later, 11-year-old Jack is pressing for a real law -- one that could help feed Florida's homeless.

The sixth-grader is being credited for inspiring a bill that will allow restaurants and hotels to donate leftover food to places like homeless shelters and not face legal liabilities.

For years, many eateries and other places have simply thrown the food away, rather than face a lawsuit if someone got sick.

"I kind of used my social studies teacher's advice," said Jack, a sixth-grader at Ransom Everglades School. "She told us to make a difference."

His fifth-grade social studies teacher is delighted Jack took her lesson to heart.

"I pretty much want all my students to be as much as they can be and to go for it," said Deborah Rogero, a fifth-grade teacher at Saint Thomas Episcopal Parish in Coral Gables. "It's their responsibility to make the world a better place."


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Church gives a "hand up"

MOSES LAKE - When she spoke before the congregation of St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Mavis Barnett felt like she was floating on a cloud.

Barnett, community service coordinator at the North Columbia Community Action Council, was there to thank the church congregation for participating in the council's program to adopt homeless and low-income families.

"I spoke to them, I thanked them for everything and talked about how good God is," Barnett noted. "I thanked them for allowing God to work through them to help these people, and I felt like they were all guardian angels God had sent to take care of these people who couldn't take care of themselves."

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