Empty Building, Full Hearts

CCC took the day off from morning worship services on Sunday, April 24, and instead went out to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the community that surrounds us. The work included:

• Feeding The Valley Food Bank: Thirty-four people packed 373 boxes that will be distributed to area families.
• Area Schools: Four ladies visited six schools – Spencer High, South Columbus Elementary, Key Elementary, Dorothy Height Elementary, Baker Middle and Eddy Middle –and prayed for God's guidance and presence to be felt daily by the students, faculty, administrative staff and workers.
• Ruth Ann's Restaurant: One couple anonymously paid for breakfast or lunch while having brunch at the downtown diner. One was a Columbus police officer who was breakfast with his wife, children and parents; another was a WWII Veteran and his son.
• Punkin Bottom: Arise, CCC’s Young Adults Ministry, made and delivered 60 care packages in this Phenix City neighborhood, and continued to grow relationships formed from previous outreaches there.
• Ronald McDonald House: The Markert community group prepared freezer-ready meals to stock the Ronald McDonald House freezer - a simple way to bless families who are going through a tough time and are away from home.
• Midtown Medical Center: The Persons family took treats, sodas and thank-you cards to the labor and delivery nurses at Midtown Medical. Writes Amy Persons: "Since they blessed us just three weeks ago during the birth of our second daughter, we wanted to thank them again for their service."
• Midtown Medical Center: Also at Midtown Medical, a community group made 15 care packages and handed them out in the ICU family waiting rooms. "We were able to bless at least six families and were so moved by a tragic loss of one family that we purchased and delivered lunch to their large family gathering," writes Kelli Wommack. "It was a bittersweet day ... [and] a perfect depiction of 2 Corinthians 1:3-5."
• Southern Living Academy: A group painted this future group home for boys.
• Columbus Hospice: A community group cleared the walking path and planted flowers (including some placed in flower pots painted by CCC children).