I've seen reports from the food pantry and ESL ministry from this Monday night and our ministry to Houston's underpriveleged continues in the name of Christ.
The number of clients at the food pantry is rapidly growing. If you remember, prior to NEHBC taking over Farrington Baptist Church's property, their church ran a food pantry that had never serviced 100 family units in a month. With the current trend of the relaunched food pantry, we fed over 100 family units in August and this month or next month we will hit the 200 family unit mark. When you consider these numbers are family units and not individuals, we are feeding a lot of people.
This growth means we need more food. Right now we need dry beans, rice, peanut butter, and jelly. You can drop off inventory in the NEHBC lobby bin.
Our ESL ministry has up and down weeks, attendance-wise, but is trending upwards. Last week the childcare room was completely full. It's a matter of time before ESL needs more space and workers.
The number of clients at the food pantry is rapidly growing. If you remember, prior to NEHBC taking over Farrington Baptist Church's property, their church ran a food pantry that had never serviced 100 family units in a month. With the current trend of the relaunched food pantry, we fed over 100 family units in August and this month or next month we will hit the 200 family unit mark. When you consider these numbers are family units and not individuals, we are feeding a lot of people.
This growth means we need more food. Right now we need dry beans, rice, peanut butter, and jelly. You can drop off inventory in the NEHBC lobby bin.
Our ESL ministry has up and down weeks, attendance-wise, but is trending upwards. Last week the childcare room was completely full. It's a matter of time before ESL needs more space and workers.
Most importantly, our plan to pave the way for gospel advancement is working. Christ followers are intentionally sharing their faith with those who come for food, clothes, ESL, dance, and basketball. Last week a man accepted Jesus as His Lord and Savior. Not only that, but other churches are getting involved; to my knowledge, Faith Family and two hispanic congregations from other parts of the city are now faithfully serving at FM also. This is part of the vision--for other churches to get involved in advancing the gospel through FM.
NEHBCers, the Lord is increasing His use of our church family to make His Name holy among humanity. What a privelege to be used by the Messiah to building the Kingdom of God, one life at a time. Glory to God!
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