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| - This church has a HUGE congregation and it's easy to get swallowed in all the under currents of personalities. I attended here years ago, with my children, but left when I heard that the Pastor didn't support 12 Step Programs. My calls to his office, to confirm this, went unanswered.
They have a powerful choir, who takes front stage long and hard. Afterwards, the Pastor's sermon rounds out the theatrics. Since he swayed from the bible quite a bit, and ventured his opinion, the message of Jesus Christ became blurred.
Today was my first time stepping back on the church grounds, albeit for the fresh vegetables and fruits they give away every fourth Saturday of the month. The line was long and the heat fierce, but the church members who volunteered to serve on this event were on the case: promptly offering cold water cups, water bottles and offering indoor shade to the elderly, sick or those who suffered heat exhaustion. Unfortunately, I was one of those who suffered heat exhaustion while my daughter pushed me in my manual wheelchair. Once inside the church, we were trusted (on the Honor System) to respect our outside places in line. I chatted with others, who came in, of their illnesses and offered to assist in anyway that we could.
After about 1 hour, I resumed my place in line. The volunteers did a great job of organizing the food lines as well as assembling tables with each item. this created a great flow for traffic. Younger church members handed out bags and/or assisted with transporting your items, via a donated shopping buggy, to your car. I received: kale, broccoli, individual packaged chef salad, asparagus, corn on the cob, onions, apples, loaf of bread, hamburger buns, huge bag of green and purple lettuce, 2 containers of green tea, 4 bottles of water, 4 bags of Doritos, a cantaloupe and 3 small packages of Tennessee pride breakfast sausage. i was impressed that everything was fresh, and they had plenty of it to go around. Starting time was 10:30 am. we arrived at 10:15 am. We left around 12: 45. not bad at all.
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