Urban Restoration On Tuesdays

This is where we go on Tuesdays

Debbie Eaker and Cole Thompson loading the 44 extra bags of grocery that we needed tonight.

Cole loading grocery bags

Gary & Debbie Eaker

Cole standing outside in the rain, ready to carry grocery bags for those who needed it.

On Tuesday nights (6-8:30pm), you will find people from Radiant Life Fellowship serving the needy at Urban Restoration. We hand out free and full bags of groceries to those who are in need. Tonight, almost 150 people lined up to get their grocery bag. We then have the opportunityto love on them, bless them, get to know their names and ask to carry their grocery bag to their ride (bus, car, bike).

When I serve the poor with love, I discover that they give me a greater gift than I could ever offer them. I am somehow "saved" from drifting into discontentment. I regain a sense of gratitude for who I am, what family I live in and what I have. I always leave with a sense that I did something for someone else who could never pay me back. I served because I loved.

Without regular interactions with those who survive with much less than I have, I lose perspective. I start to think I need more, bigger, newer and better stuff. My life starts to center around "I". That's why I need to regularly find myself in environments where I am in the minority. It's just one way God has given me to counter my bent toward self-centered-ness.

Thank you God for Radiant Life Fellowship.
Almost 100% of the Radiant Life people have served the people
that benefit from Urban Restoration each week.

Chris Thompson