The Worship Network

COMPA Ministries puts "COMPAssion in action" by not only providing healthy food to the working poor and homeless, but also helping them develop job skills.

COMPA created an extraordinarily efficient database system to allocate fruits and vegetables to local agencies which offer food to low-income families. The system ensures these perishable items are sent to the agencies, in the correct quantities, within 24 hours. Since many agencies can't offer these items due to their short shelf-life, "this 'next-day' distribution system helps our agencies get good and fresh produce to their needy clients in a timely manner," COMPA writes.

That's not all; the ministry also achieves its mission--delivering food items with more nutritional value than traditional giveaway programs while building self-sufficiency--by canning food for the program.

"With the move to the new COMPAssion Center, and with professional consultation, COMPA designed and is currently implementing a canning plant and food processing center," the ministry shares. "As part of this innovative new strategy, COMPA developed/acquired nutritious, low fat and high protein recipes that make up our Denver Broncos Chicken and Turkey Chilis and a new Beans and Ham meal." Coinciding with the opening of the canning plant, COMPA will launch the new COMPAssion Works program to address the desperately needed "vocational needs" of the community by providing job training to homeless and low-income invididuals.