Led by Ben Adams, campus pastor, in collaboration with volunteer student leaders, “Takin’ it to the Streets” started in 2012. Here, a student prepares peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Grace Place Episcopal Church, Chicago, is the home base for the program. Renaldo Webb (middle), a member of Grace Place, assists with sandwiches. “Takin’ it to the Streets” distributes an average of 60 meals each week to people on the streets.

College students from Chicago’s South Loop are meeting their neighbors in a most unusual way: each Sunday night, they walk a shopping cart through the streets and hand out sandwiches and clothes to people in need. The program, called “Takin’ it to the Streets,” is part of South Loop Campus Ministry, a join initiative of the ELCA Metropolitan Chicago Synod and the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. (Photos/Chris Ocken)

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