From Tulsa-
Just like Jesus, the Rev. Susanne Methven answered a question with a story this week when asked why St. John's Episcopal Church was growing an organic garden to feed the hungry:
"Last summer, a street person was helping me carry in vegetables at Iron Gate (soup kitchen). There was a green pepper on top of the basket, and he said, 'Can I have that green pepper?'
" 'Of course,' I said.
" 'It tastes like home,' the homeless man said."
St. John's, at 4100 S. Atlanta Place, is one of several area churches that have started gardens to grow food for the needy and for their own members.
Methven, the associate rector at St. John's, said the church was inspired to put in a garden this spring after it participated last year in a large community garden at First Seventh Day Adventist Church of Tulsa, 920 S. New Haven Ave.
She delivered the first fruits of the garden Tuesday to Iron Gate, which is associated with Trinity Episcopal Church downtown. The produce included kohlrabi, radishes, lettuce, spinach and mustard greens.
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