Ministry Beyond the Walls

I asked one of our members to send me this story of their ministry and outreach in our community. This is great example of how our folks, in this case our Singles Ministry, continues to make FBCS a Missional church:

The singles group adopted a family for Christmas. It was a family of six, but we only wound up having two ss classes participate so I didn't know how it all would work out. We set a goal to collect about $700 for the family. We wanted to get everyone about the same amount of items and be able to give the a $100 dollar gift card to BiLo. After collecting money and shopping for the family I realized that we had a lot more money than we could have imagined. We still had 500 dollars left. I was discussing this with my dad, a Corporate Chaplain in the area, and he said that If he had known we could collect so much money he would have given us a name of a guy from one of his companies. After discussing this with a couple of singles representatives and getting it approved by CCA we decided to add the family on. It was just a week before Christmas and we knew we wouldn't have time to shop so I gave cash and a BiLo gift card to my dad to deliver to the man. He is a single dad of three and has been going trough a really rough time with some things. My dad was informed by CCA that he could not deliver the gift at the office he had to do it at the man's home. God works in mysterious ways. The man had been wanting to discuss some issues with my dad, but didn't want to do it at the office. This gave dad the time and space that the man needed. All the man had was a little table top tree and one present under it. He was extremely grateful for the gift. He said, "These people don't even know me. Why would they want to do this for me?" He was just going to take the family out to dinner because he couldn't afford to cook, but now he could do a nice meal. He called me after the holiday and thanked us again and told me that it was a great Christmas and they even had a great holiday meal at home.This really made my day and I can't wait to see what we can do in the future, either for this family or another.