November 11, 2018
By: Bill Conger
It was a day of Thanksgiving (Nov. 10) at Smithville First Baptist Church as over 500 individuals were provided with food for the upcoming holiday meal. At the church’s third Community Day this year, volunteers gave out stuffing, cranberry sauce, vouchers for hams from Save-A-Lot, and other Thanksgiving staples to around 187 families.
“We want to continually be a source of love, hope, and light to our community,” says F.B.C. Pastor Chad Ramsey. “We want to help in any way that we can to show the same love God showed us by showing God’s love to others. We do not do these community days to make ourselves feel better. We do them because we care, and we love Jesus. So we want people to know that God loves them and so does Smithville FBC.”
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Volunteers like Tom Koblinsky enjoyed helping out.
“I felt like the Lord told me to do this,” Koblinsky told WJLE. “I feel called for home missions. I like to help the people locally more than far away. I like to see the joy and the happiness on their faces. It brings me self-satisfaction also knowing I’m doing the Lord’s work.”
The Clothing Closet also set up racks of winter clothing for folks, and a Christmas scene was on display for families to take a nice formal picture for the Yuletide season.