Looking to Serve Together as a Family?
In May of 2012 a group of Overflow High School students attended an event called the “Day of Hunger.” In addition to serving food at a local food pantry, we visited several homeless communities on the east side of Columbus. While visiting some homeless families in the Brice Rd area, we asked them “Where do you get your food?” They mentioned that they went to the food pantry at New Faith Ministries on Brice Road. They told us how kind and genuine the people were at New Faith. I reached out to the pastor of New Faith (near Lowe’s on Brice Road) and we began what has been a 13-year partnership with the wonderful people there. This “Kingdom” partnership has been an incredible encouragement to members from both churches. Although New Faith hosts a food pantry every other Saturday, the largest pantries are just before Thanksgiving and Christmas. We bring a group from Violet to help with these larger food distributions. Several Violet families came together to help provide Thanksgiving food for over 300 families in need at New Faith Ministries! The Hendershot, Smith, Reed, Jones, and Barsch families worked for over 3 hours to load food into the vehicles of families in need. There will be another opportunity for families to serve together on Saturday, December 14th at New Faith Ministries at 2879 Brice Rd. (near Lowe’s). You will be the one who is blessed when you serve others!
Any questions? Please contact Pastor Keith at keithh@violetchurch.com.
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