If it is Thursday you will see Olga at our distribution. Now look down. There will be our youngest, shortest, and cutest volunteer - her five year old niño! She first came to us as a pastor of the church she and her husband started in order to ensure that the 100 members of her church could eat. Well, word travels and now she takes to the highways to deliver diapers, fruta y comida to four other neighbor-led congregations - including 58 burping bebés! If that were not enough, she is a social justice sorceress and takes 50 lb. bags of frijoles y arroz and turns them into steaming hot meals that she and her team of 17 volunteers deliver to day-laborers and people who are unhoused. Finalmente, she was chosen by Puerto Rico to be a missionary.

She makes it look easy. Food distribution for kindergartners. Might be because she takes care of children while doing food distribution! While most everyone is deeply grateful for the grocery bags we bring to their door, she took it to the next level and decided to make it her passion to make sure her neighbors have enough to eat. Now 50 families - many of them who have the wriggling children she watches - receive fruta y verduras due to her leadership and extreme patience. This also is not her first food rodeo: She has been active in her school community delivering to familias. She is proof that where there is a (food) will there is a (comida) way!

100 boxes of perishable food started the relationship. Her response was an emphatic yes and she has not stopped since. She takes it personally if people in her apartment complex are hungry and now supports 1,000 families with our deliveries of food, gently loved furniture, ropa, baby goods and more.

Lucia is famous for being our produce AND diaper queen! Lifting 50 pounds of onions and putting on her head and carrying it to her truck is just one of her many magic tricks. The most important is that 173 families weekly receive food as if by magic due to the extraordinary life-sustaining work. She wears many hats with Food Justice including being on our Leadership Circle where she ensures community needs are centered. Her powerful advocacy is a gift that does not stop giving!

Rivas is both a man of the cloth and action and within a few days of our first conversation he made sure our distribution was embedded at his congregation. Social justice in his DNA and a vision of a world where neighbors are welcome drives him. He leads the fastest growing congregation of it's kind in the U.S. and ensures that neighbors know they are welcome. Under his firecracker leadership the church makes sure 500 receive our beans and rice.