Within the Kenosha Temple Bethlehem parking zone, 2528 Roosevelt Highway, the Reverend Galen Nelson was busy grilling beneath completely clear Saturday skies, whipping up sufficient ribs, brats and hotdogs for greater than 130 individuals throughout the Thanksgiving Day occasion. the church group.
Visitors may take pleasure in free meals within the shade, with video games and a bouncy fortress obtainable for households and youngsters. Free clothes tables had been additionally obtainable for these in want, from child garments to ladies’s heels.
Nelson, president of the church’s outreach and evangelism mission group, stated the occasion was simply one other a part of their efforts to achieve out and help the group, just like the fuel giveaway they hosted final month.
“Persons are in want, they want meals, they want clothes,” Nelson stated. “It’s a must to deal with pure wants.”
Nelson stated it was essential for church buildings to assist individuals with sensible issues, not simply religious ones.
“Preaching is for the inside of a church; individuals have issues exterior the partitions,” stated Nelson. “Even right here, we will get very distracted by the preaching half, however when individuals stroll out the door, they nonetheless have issues.”
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These “exterior” issues solely acquired worse as fuel and grocery costs rose. Nelson stated they wish to assist out in the neighborhood in any means doable, whether or not it is as a gathering place for group occasions, a vaccination heart or, as occurred on Saturday, a spot to eat and revel in one another’s firm.
“Our purpose is to interact with the group,” Nelson stated. “No matter it’s, we’re not right here simply to entertain ourselves.”
The church takes a “no questions requested” strategy to serving to, Nelson stated. No matter individuals’s motives, he promised to assist anybody who requested.
“We even feed the mailman when he comes,” Nelson stated, laughing.
Extra details about upcoming church occasions might be discovered on the Kenosha Bethlehem Temple Fb web page.
