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Produced, Written and Directed
by Gerard Thomas Straub
Co-Produced and Edited by Chad O. Mochrie
Introduction to the Film
Where Love Is tells the inspirational story of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, which has been faithfully serving the poor of Detroit since 1929. It has become one of Detroit’s most beloved charity organizations, providing not only three meals a day at two locations, but also working toward long-term systemic change and social justice through education, including a drug-rehabilitation center, the Rosa Parks’ Art Center for Children, and an urban farm program. This 90-minute film presents stories of faith from places of deep pain. Among the hollowed-out businesses and homes, violent crime, and poverty, the Capuchins reach out with arms of love, offering new life and hope to many who have no one to turn to and nowhere to go. The friars and volunteers love with sincerity, believing that where love is, there God is.
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Gerry Straub’s deeply held and courageously lived out religious convictions and his poignant visuals disturb and challenge viewers at many levels. He makes us see what we would rather not see. He invites us to feel and empathize more deeply, to think more critically, to pray more faithfully, and to act more courageously. His personal witness is as inspiring as it is troubling. As an expression of the Gospel, Gerry’s life and films are indeed “good news for the poor.” But they await the viewers’ response to become even “better news for the poor.”
A Note From the Filmmaker, Gerry Straub
“We live in a society that measures your success, usefulness and value by what you have and what you do and that’s where the folks here have reminded me that the value of a life is not about what you have or what you do or what degrees you have or any of that stuff. The bottom line is what you do with what you have, as far as love goes… For where there is love, there is God.”
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