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Our First Responder on discovering God’s call

“When I have an opportunity, I tell people, ‘Don’t give up on people. Plant seeds,’” said one of our First Responders.

Something to give, something to receive

“Y’all are doing God’s work, and I am grateful for you,” said Beverly, who volunteers with and receives food from OneGenAway.

“I was lucky to find a cheap pack of hamburger.”

Terry, like most of us, is feeling the rising prices at the grocery store.

When the chicken is off limits

Fresh fruits and vegetables are essential for our mobile food pantry, and our friend who we’ll call George illustrates that importance on a new level.

OneGenAway serves foster families with First Lady

OneGenAway recently took a trip to the city of Jonesborough with Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee to bless foster families in the area with boxes of food.

The helpers could leave. But sometimes they stay.

Becky knows most everyone in Waverly. As she volunteered at our mobile food pantry, she was cutting up all day with the volunteers and those receiving food.

From two stocked fridges to a mobile food pantry

Before the flood in Waverly, Carmen had two freezers and two refrigerators full of food. Now, she comes to our mobile food pantry in clothes she received from a disaster relief center.

Why ‘no questions asked’ is vital in service

Volunteer Tim points out a critical part of service: Maybe love is best shown when we trust that, if someone asks for help, they need it.

“Why are our arms closed to some?”

For Chuka, service is not only driven by his faith but also by the realization that he is part of a community that cannot thrive without people working together for the good of one another.

When God shows up in a cuckoo clock

Not many stories about God begin with a cuckoo clock, but Anne’s does.

God gave me hope in a bag of grapes

God is certainly in the big moments, but something about his small blessings communicates such abundant love.

OneGenAway raises $217K at Million Meal Spring Breakfast

The Middle Tennessee community raised a record amount for One Generation Away at our largest fundraiser of the year!

St. Philip Catholic Church donates $20K to OneGenAway

Three clergymen walk into a food warehouse and drop off a $20,000 check. Sounds like the set up to a joke, but it is an incredible and humbling truth.

The last place you thought you’d be

At OneGenAway, each day of service is another day of encountering people in places they never thought they’d be, people who feel separated from the rest of the world. But we were never meant to be alone. Right?

How health labels can create barriers to nutrition

Which is a healthier meal: two apples or mac and cheese? What if it’s organic mac and cheese and a non-organic apple? What if the mac and cheese contains GMOs?

When you take a study break to serve your community

Sabrina and Nicole are currently in the throes of college application and self-exploration, but they took the time on a Saturday morning to come serve with OneGenAway.

To give up, or to start again

We met James when he stepped out of the porta-john at our distribution site and declared, “Man, that was a terrible elevator.”

Every home was impacted, even if it wasn’t flooded

“My son had to go in the house that they rented [out] and wake the people up because they was asleep, and the baby was asleep in the living room, and it had water around it already.”

It wouldn’t be Saturday morning without Karen

If you’ve volunteered at a distribution, you’ve probably seen Karen volunteering with her grandkids.

When one becomes four overnight

Peggie had no idea she’d have three kids this year.

Six months after the flood

You don’t see the wreckage in Waverly until you’re surrounded by it. As you drive the hilly roads into the city, the buildings seem to be in pretty good shape until you dip into a valley, where there are hardly buildings at all, just piles of drywall, insulation, and belongings that no longer belong to anyone.

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