Community volunteers Betty Baines, left, Jim Gallimore and Elaine Samples prepare bags of kid-friendly take-home meals as part of The Caring Place’s Sac Pac program. The program, now two years old, distributes the packaged meals to over 500 economically disadvantaged students in 11 Bradley County schools each Friday during the school year.THE CARING PLACE2014 ANNUAL BANQUETWHAT: “Stranger at My Door” with River JordanWHEN: Feb. 27 at 6 p.m.WHERE: DeVos Recreation Center at Lee University, 1305 Parker St. NE, Cleveland, TN 37311TICKETS: $60 per person; $400 for tables of 8For tickets and information, contact The Caring Place at 423-472-4414 or visit The Caring Place online at http://thecaringplaceonline.org.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Nashville-based author and speaker River Jordan will be featured at The Caring Place’s sixth annual banquet, “Stranger at My Door,” Feb. 27 at Lee University.
The event’s name is inspired by one of Jordan’s works, “Praying for Strangers, an Adventure of the Human Spirit,” said Reba Terry, executive director for The Caring Place. The ecumenical Christian nonprofit organization provides food, clothing and social services to people in need.
Jordan’s message of reaching out to strangers and praying for them has “a neat kind of connection” to what The Caring Place tries to do, Terry said.
She said many of the people seeking assistance from The Caring Place are strangers looking for help.