HANDS OF JESUS
“For I used to be hungry and also you gave me meals, I used to be thirsty and also you gave me drink, I used to be a stranger and also you welcomed me.” – Matthew 25:35
Throughout our Open Air Christmas Live performance, FBCTLH and the Florida Baptist Youngsters’s House partnering with FarmShare have been blessed to provide away 600 models of meals to households in want! A unit of meals consisted of milk, eggs, boneless hen breasts, yogurt, cereal bars, contemporary greens, water, inexperienced tea, and a gospel tract providing the enjoyment and hope of Christmas. In line with Tamara Smith, the Regional Director of the Panhandle of the Florida Baptist Youngsters’s House, this was the most important meals distribution they’ve had all 12 months!
I want to share only one story from the plethora of tales all through the day. A husband and spouse pulled into our meals line driving a Mercedes Benz. We weren’t asking questions and easily serving anybody who stopped. The person driving said that he had seen the signal and stopped as a result of because the principal of a faculty, he knew of three households that had a direct want. He hoped to get meals for them after which take it over to their houses instantly.
This might not have occurred with out the superb efforts of everybody who volunteered and stepped in to assist with this ministry alternative.
Along with giving freely meals, FBCTLH additionally restocked the pantry on the Youngsters’s House on Buck Lake Street. By the top of the night, their volunteers advised me that it was the most important meals drive they’ve had this 12 months and that their pantry was in one of the best form it has been for the reason that starting of the pandemic. If you want to nonetheless donate to the meals pantry on the Florida Baptist Youngsters’s House, you may take your donations straight there (8415 Buck Lake Street) or you may carry them right here to the church and we are going to ensure that they’re delivered to the Youngsters’s House.
I can not thanks sufficient for being a component of each of these ministry alternatives. We will relaxation in figuring out that the Lord blessed our obedience as we have been capable of meet bodily and non secular wants. Thanks once more and God bless.
