Loaves & Fishes

In 2007, Loaves & Fishes served approximately 3,700 meals using more than 880 labor hours.

Loaves & Fishes began in 1980, when the church secretary, Gail Pryor, kept food in paper bags under her desk and would pass them out as needed to people who came to the church office. Ramsey Richardson, the Rector of Christ Episcopal Church at the time, established a program with a local downtown sandwich shop and issued “chits” to those in need.  They would take their chits to the sandwich shop and redeem them for lunch.

Richardson joined forces with the priest from Holy Comforter Catholic Church.  The first soup kitchen was held at Christ Church around 1981. Since then, four other churches have joined Christ Church and Holy Comforter.  They are First United Methodist, First Presbyterian, First Christian, and Park St. Baptist Church.

Christ Church’s Loaves & Fishes Ministry provides a hot meal from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. every Tuesday to anyone who walks in the door – no questions asked.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact the church office (434.293.2347).

• "Of the Father's Love Begotten"

  He is found in human fashion, Death and sorrow here to know, That the race of Adam's children Doomed by law to endless woe, May not henceforth die and perish In the dreadful gulf below, Evermore and evermore! O that birth forever blessed, When the Virgin, full of grace, By the Holy Ghost conceiving, Bare the Savior of our race; And the Babe, the world's Redeemer, First revealed His sacred face, Evermore and evermore!