This past Sunday night my small group met at the Holt Food Bank to serve our community rather than have our regular meeting (we’re currently viewing and talking about a PBS series called The Question of God about C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud).  This was an initial attempt of our church to connect missions and small groups so that every small group would make a commitment to serve regularly (every other month, every third month, etc.) somewhere in the community during the same time that they normally meet as a small group.  This will allow people to make one commitment to a small group that will cover both growing in Christ and serving our community and world.

Our group ended up going to Holt Food Bank’s warehouse where we cleaned and sorted food.  They just received 14,000 lbs. of donations from the postal service’s food drive.  The volunteer coordinators, Denny and Caroline, were very enthusiastic about having the help.  We also had the opportunity to learn about a mission that most of us had never visited before.  It was a great success.