Having to pay for a soup kitchen meal

---Here in El Paso, I frequently have my dinner at the Salvation Army Family Center.  The meals are delicious and well-balanced; and free.

--In times past when I lived in El Paso, I would occasionally go to the Rescue Mission for dinner.  It's fairly close by. Then, I could'nt go there for dinner because they no longer served to people in the area who are poor.  Only to persons residing there overnight.

Now, I understand they've reopened the soup kitchen to people in the El Paso area, but they charge $1.50 per meal.  I could never afford to eat there for any length of time!  The idea of a soup kitchen meal is to my mind that people who don't have much have at least a free meal!  I would hope the Rescue Mission here in El Paso would come to see it that way once again.  Also, they still have in effect that the diner must first hear a sermon.