Having a Christian Service Center to serve the needs of Granbury has been a dream since 2006. For several years now the church that I serve has distributed food to those in need twice a week. There are months when hundreds of families are touched through this effort. Several years ago a group at church had the vision to distribute good used clothing and furniture. This area of service would be of particular benefit to those who had lost homes due to fire or some other kind of disaster. We used a portable building for a period of time to accomplish this objective, but that was only a temporary arrangement.

In 2007, we started envisoning a free standing building to distribute food, furniture, and applianaces as well. The vision began to expand to include counseling services, recovery groups, support groups, and community education classes of all kinds. The final detail to be considered was…money. The church responded generously in special contributions in 2008 and 2009. All of the funds to construct a building that will be approximately 6,000 square feet have been raised.

The fun officially got underway September 20th with a ground breaking ceremony. The city of Granbury finished running electrical service to the lot last week. In order to stay within the confines of our budget, we are going to have use as much donated labor as possible. Kudos to Jerry Turner. He is donating his time as general contractor. We had a pretty motley volunteer crew out there this morning laying sewer line. I didn’t think I would ever see the day that a sewer line would get me excited, but that was certainly the case today!

It won’t be long until the service center is up and running. I can’t wait! In today’s economy, the timing of this ministry is indeed providential. There are a lot of people in Hood County in need.
The service center will soon be buzzing with activity.

Be sure to check out Trey Morgan’s blog. He has some good perspective on the responsbility of the church to the poor: www.treymorgan.net