Cedar Hill church gives apartment residents Thanksgiving food

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CEDAR HILL—Hillcrest Baptist Church in Cedar Hill gave an apartment complex a reason to be a little more thankful this Thanksgiving season.

The congregation’s Jerusalem Ministry Team recently distributed 186 boxes of food in an apartment complex where it has been ministering regularly. Each box included 12 nonperishable food items to help people provide for their families.

Mary Fae Kamm, who leads the church’s local ministry team, said the outreach is one way the church is trying to share the gospel with residents of the complex. Many of them have fallen on hard times, she said.

Distributing food allows church members to meet both physical and spiritual needs. Each box of food included an evangelistic Texas Hope 2010 multimedia gospel compact disc. The CD includes audio and video gospel presentations, as well as a link to the Bible in more than 350 languages.

“When we had kid’s club, I’d have two or three people come down and say, ‘I just don’t have any food,’” she said. “Every day, it seemed like we were putting together some boxes.”

The congregation is attempting to share the love Christ commands each of his followers to have for others, Kamm said.

“We love them for Jesus,” she said. “And they know that. They call us the church people, even in the office. We have ministered to the staff. When they’ve had crises in their life, they’ll call us.”

 

 


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