When the Bags Come Marching In

Wow. THANK YOU to all of you who stepped in and created a moment that will not be too quickly forgotten around CCO. While we anticipated a great response, it was still overwhelming to see it all! God is good and His people are finding their place in His story!



Again - thank you for helping and leading and turning what could have been complete chaos into at least controlled chaos :) What a place for a yellow-shirted teenager to get to be part the love of Jesus being carried in by the bagful. What a place for a family to get to make a shopping trip of food that they will never eat. What a place for a banker to be driving a gator all morning gathering food.

Tonight 75-80 people showed up and the food bags were sorted. Young and old. Families serving together. Little kids pushing carts of food to adults that sorting everything out. Each row of chairs in the worship center has been converted into a shelf holding a specific item. You should see all the Quick Oatmeal where the Gilmans sit and all the Cereal Boxes where McGrews sit! It's amazing. The Brothers In Need Pantry is full. FULL. F-U-L-L. We have SO much food left over that we are going to show up and surprise some other food pantry ministries here in town. We gathering boxes from stores tonight and tomorrow so that the Tuesday night volunteers can box up the sorted items. We hope to have three rental moving trucks ready to go tomorrow night so they can be loaded and will go out Wednesday to those ministries.

Again, we can't say it enough -- THANK YOU for all your work! Thank you for doing your part in making the name of Jesus known to a community that is hungry for more.