June 16, 2021
By: Dwayne Page
Dozens of people from the Smithville Church of Christ are pitching in to help show their Christian love for others during the congregation’s annual Work Camp being held through Thursday this week.
The church began the work camp a few years ago as a means of helping less fortunate residents of the county do some fix up and cleanup projects around their homes. Much of the work includes building handicapped ramps, mowing lawns, and cutting down and trimming trees and bushes.
“We believe that every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change as James writes in the New Testament. To paraphrase, everything we have been given, our energy, time, money, all of this are blessings we receive to bless others. We have a group of people including those who have taken vacation time who are coming out and being intentional about blessing other people because we love DeKalb County and we care about them so we are going to people who are less fortunate than we are including people who may be older, who have cancer, etc and if they need something done like moving brush, cleaning gutters, pressure washing, painting, building handicapped ramps, etc. we are doing that or whatever we can to help this week,” said Jonathan Anderson, Youth and Associate Minister of the Smithville Church of Christ.