Churches meet needs for men’s recovery center
ELMA, Wash.--Individuals and churches of the Olympic Baptist Association partnered together in recent weeks to provide for needs at Set Free Christian Fellowship in Elma, Wash. The ministry is an in-house non-profit discipleship program for men, an organization that is dedicated to aiding those less fortunate due to various addictions and life's crisis. Many of those helped have been able to get back on their feet and start their lives anew.
The call for needed supplies went out to churches and they responded in generous ways. Blankets, sheets, pillows, towels, canned and boxed food goods, paper products, and personal hygiene items were donated. Churches also gave office supplies, an oak file cabinet and hauled away broken appliances. A $600 donation from a children's Sunday school class in Texas was passed along to Set Free, and the organization will add that money toward the "Turn Up the Heat" fundraiser currently being collected for a wood stove.
The group has a building that is approximately 5000 square feet that includes the sanctuary, which has very little heat.
"We are so grateful to God and those who partnered with him to help our ministry, said Debbie Tallman of Set Free.”The men in our program will be warm and fed because of these wonderful people who have chosen to be the hands and feet, the body of Christ in action."
The churches which donated time or products included Faith Community Church of Ocean Shores, Wash., McKenzie Road Baptist Church in Olympia, Wash., Sunshine Baptist Church and Kitsap Lake Baptist Church of Bremerton, Wash., Clear Creek Baptist Church, Silverdale, Wash., and First Baptist Church of Montesano, Wash.
Those wishing to add support to Set Free Christian Fellowship can visit the donations page at the website www.setFreeElma.org or call 360.310.0577.
Article copyed from "Northwest Baptist Witness"
Vol. 79, No 11 –November 26, 2009
