Jill Staton Bullard was a soccer mom, going lto a game one Saturday morning in north Raleigh many years ago when she and another mom decided to go to a fast food restaurant to get breakfast sandwiches and coffee for others who were going to be on their side of the field. After getting their order and now ready to leave, the server asked if they needed anything else, and they said no.
What happened next changed Jill's life and the lives of so many others. The server threw all the remaining sandwiches in the trash. Why? It was 10:30 and time to switch to lunch.
Jill and the other mom went back to the soccer field, thinking shame on the restaurant for throwing the food away. Over the weekend, that feeling changed to shame on us for not doing something about it, perhaps buying the remaining sandwiches and giving them away to others on the field.
That weekend was the beginning of the Inter Faith Food Shuttle, now more than thirty years old and presently delivering food to seven counties near Wake County in North Carolina. Jill's best guess is that the Food Shuttle now delivers food to more than 40,000 people per week.
One person saw what she believed to be an injustice and did something about it. She did not walk away. She embraced it and in doing so changed her life as she led the Food Shuttle for twenty eight years. Perhaps more importantly, she changed the lives of so many thousands of people who have received the food she has helped to deliver these many years.
Jill Staton Bullard, my friend from so many years ago, has changed her corner of the world. She has led and lived truly A Consequential Life!