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DEBORAH POTTER<\/strong>, correspondent: It\u2019s hard work on a warm day, but Bob Lewis never shirks.<\/p>\n

BOB LEWIS<\/strong> (Garden Volunteer): I garden at home. On off days, I\u2019m out here.<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>: \u201cHere\u201d is a vegetable patch in front of St. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church in suburban Washington, tended by volunteers from the parish.<\/p>\n

VOLUNTEER<\/strong>: We got a bumper crop and more coming in!<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>: Last year, this garden was just an idea\u2014something the rector dreamed up.<\/p>\n

REV. STEPHANIE NAGLEY<\/strong> (Rector, St. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church, Bethesda, Maryland): I think \u201ccome eat, go serve\u201d is becoming our slogan.<\/p>\n

\"post01\"POTTER<\/strong>: For Reverend Stephanie Nagley, the garden as a way of living out what she sees as God\u2019s call to give away what you\u2019ve been given, especially in tough times. St. Luke\u2019s is one of several churches across the country that planted vegetable gardens for the first time this spring, partly in response to the recession. Most of their food goes to local food banks, but what comes out of this garden goes right next door. All of the produce grown at the church is donated to St. Luke\u2019s House, a mental health facility the parish helped to found almost 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

VOLUNTEER<\/strong> (to class members): You want to help us get all this stuff rinsed?<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>: Cooking class is offered daily as part of a life skills program. The goal of the class is to help these adults with mental illness learn to live more independently.<\/p>\n

(to class member): What are you learning?<\/p>\n

CLASS MEMBER<\/strong>: How to cook different veggies.<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>:\u00a0 The fact that those veggies come from the church next door isn\u2019t lost on anyone at St. Luke\u2019s House.<\/p>\n

\"post0a-churchgarden\"BETH WELCH<\/strong> (Client, St. Luke\u2019s House): I think it\u2019s really absolutely nice. We get a lot more veggies to eat.<\/p>\n

MARK ROBBINS<\/strong> (Client, St. Luke\u2019s House): I really appreciate it. I really should thank them sometime, I guess.<\/p>\n

ERIC GORDON<\/strong> (Staff, St. Luke\u2019s House) I think the clients get a real kick out of it. One guy in particular is always double-checking: Are you guys really using that in your cooking classes? Are you sure? Yes, we definitely are using this in our cooking classes.<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>: The clients and staff of St. Luke\u2019s House benefit from the garden\u2019s bounty, but that\u2019s not its only value. Parishioner Anne Elsbree organized the 30 volunteers who tilled the ground, planted the seeds, and now harvest the crops.<\/p>\n

ANNE ELSBREE <\/strong>(Garden Organizer) I think it\u2019s produced good teamwork at church. We\u2019ve all been working on a project together and getting results, so it\u2019s been very satisfying.
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\nREV. STEPHANIE NAGLEY<\/strong>: In some ways, I think a lot of this was just sort of an unconscious bubbling up of people\u2019s faith, and now I think it\u2019s sort of come to this next era, where it\u2019s really now articulated, and we\u2019re making it clear that this is what we\u2019ve been about all along.<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>: Cara Gonzalez worships at St. Luke\u2019s and has brought the local youth organization she works with to help out in the garden.<\/p>\n

CARA GONZALEZ<\/strong> (Parishioner): There\u2019s definitely something spiritual about working with the earth and feeling a relationship with all of God\u2019s creation, and then taking that and making it into a human relationship with those who benefit in the cooking program and with the youth who benefit. I think it\u2019s all about that connectedness, and that\u2019s very spiritual.<\/p>\n

POTTER<\/strong>: This year\u2019s harvest was such a success that St. Luke\u2019s plans to keep the garden going next year and make it bigger, so it can feed even more people, body and spirit.<\/p>\n

CARA GONZALEZ<\/strong> (holding out fresh basil): Amazing. Here, take a sniff. Tell me that\u2019s not spiritual right there. Amazing.<\/p>\n

For Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, I\u2019m Deborah Potter in Bethesda, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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