When Rev. Edgar Gutierrez-Duarte arrived in Chelsea in 2007, there was a small closet with a few rows of non-perishable food items in the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church that Father Edgar’s predecessor had left behind and had sometimes handed out to the hungry.
It had been an act of service that was small, but meaningful.
Shortly after discovering that closet, Father Edgar (which he often called locally), 61, was asked by the Church Vestry (Board) what was the biggest need in the community. It took but a short time for Father Edgar to look at the little closet and realize that it needed to be grown into a full-blown food pantry.
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