Our church, in coordination with our sister church, Segunda Iglesia Bautista, supports the ministry at Lexington Manor Apartment complex, Samuel Place and Casa de Manana.  This ministry in involved in providing several ministry opportunities for both church volunteers and the complex tenants by offering Bible study classes for various ages, a youth choir, women's group, men's group, special outreach activities, children summer reading clubs and special studies.  This ministry also provides counseling and guidance for those in need.
 

Lexington Manor Apartment Ministry

Sometimes a mission takes us to places we never wanted to go! Several years ago a group of “church ladies” volunteered to teach Bible to young women as an apartment ministry. These ladies had reared their children and were excited about doing something that didn’t involve children! 

Our Bible classes went well for a year or two and we began to see opportunities for an expanded ministry. Our church did a survey to examine the needs, and subsequently we conducted classes in parenting, personal growth, computer, cooking, and sewing. As time went on we had limited interest and participation from the women.

The biggest truth we took away from the classes was that young mothers have lots of children who need love, attention, and encouragement. That is the year we started the Reading Club to encourage children to keep up their reading skills during the summer. Dozens of wonderful women sat and listened and loved and have continued every year.

In the spring of 2007 our Community Center Director announced that she had six new sewing machines and wondered if we had some way to use them. What did we do? We offered a sewing class for teens though we had limited experience in sewing. 

At just the right time two angels from the Sewing Ministry said, “Move over. We can do this.” What a success! Each teen made a tote bag and a pillow. 

In July, 2007, we separated the Reading Club into two groups—kinder-third grade on Tuesdays and fourth-sixth grades on Thursdays. It meant twice the time but half the chaos. So all of July and half of August were filled with more hugs and encouragement and special instruction for those who were not at grade level in reading. Every session ended with Word Bingo and the kids loved it. 

As August of 2007 marched across the calendar, our summer projects began to end and quite frankly the “church ladies” were ready for some quiet time. It was then that our Community Center Director approached us about school clothes for some extremely needy families. We operate our ministry with no budget, so guess what? From generous Sunday School classes and from friends, we received $1,254 and were able to provide 19 youngsters with one pair of shoes and two school outfits top to bottom. The Lord had provided and stretched our funds beyond our wildest hopes. 

Yes, we didn’t want to work with children. We had been there, done that. But our mission has taken us not where we wanted to go but where we needed to be. 

Joann Wright and Mamie Medlin

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