Wes Higgins galvanizes community by making sure everyone has bread.
Wes Higgins is a retired logger who had dedicated his life to helping the less fortunate.
"I started doing it when I was 5 years old. We growed our own stuff and canned it. And we'd go to people's houses that needed food and we'd give it to them," he said. "When you are working for the Lord, there is no full time job. You just do whatever needs to be done."
He maintains his spirit of giving as an adult, and now Higgins runs a sort of back porch pantry for the poor. His thriving grass roots food delivery program is in rural Dixie County, Fla.
Higgins, who lives on a fixed income, has built a system of giving that now operates at 15 churches and distribution centers. It stretches from his porch in Old Town, Fla., across Dixie County and all the way to the Gulf Coast.
It feeds needy families in the rural area, which has been hit hard by poverty. Some pockets have an unemployment rate reaching 19 percent.
Some of the needy have come to depend on Higgins' kindness.
"Every time I come through that door, I always ask the Lord, I say, 'Bless us oh lord and these thy gift which we are about to receive,' because honey, this stuff here to some people wouldn't be anything, but to us its really part of our livelihood and I myself depend on I," said Ruby Folgelman, one of the recipients' of Higgins good deeds.
Higgins has helmed the operation almost singlehandedly until recently, when his wavering health held the feisty 78-year-old back.
But in true AmeriCan spirit, neighbors and friends stepped in to help. Unable to drive, Higgins now gets a lift from neighbor Stan Struthers.
Together they travel Florida's country roads to make pickups from people donating their food goods.
"He loves to do it. It's his passion, and I want to try to help him as long as I can," Struthers said.
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