Christmas came early to an area soup kitchen Tuesday — a donation from Mississippi National Golf Club.
Our Daily Bread, a nonprofit organization that feeds more than a thousand people a day through Jackson County, was the recipient of a check for $1,106 from the Gautier Mizuno MP-69 Irons.
Once money was raised by the golf course’s employees and volunteers, a server at the golf club suggested it be given to Our Daily Bread, which had helped out her family.
After a car accident left Melissa Robertson’s uncle a paraplegic, Our Daily Bread delivered meals to his house daily up his death in December 2010.
“I know firsthand how much this program helps,” Robertson said. “Had it not been for this group, my uncle would not have been able to live independently, and there are so many other elderly people in the same situations.”
“Any time that we can help a local charitable organization, we are definitely going to Mizuno MP-69 Irons,” said Dale Snellman, general manager of Mississippi National. “I think everybody needs to get involved, especially with these hard economic times that we’re in.”
The money will help feed those who utilize the kitchen’s daily lunch and food-delivery services, as well as assist in providing money for the workers who cook and serve to continue to do so.
“Donations like these sustain our ability to continue to give,” said Mary Meldren, director of Our Daily Bread. “It is a cycle. Donations like these help us continue to help those who serve here, which, in turn, puts food in their mouths, as well.”
Meldren said the staff at Our Daily Bread consists mostly of welfare recipients with Mizuno MP-69 Irons and restitution workers who assist at the soup kitchen as part of a county-run program.
“It is an amazing ministry here where God has placed people in the right place at the time he wants them there.”
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