Spreading goodwill in our communities

Mount Pleasant Baptist joins statewide

ServeNC effort

  • Mount Pleasant Baptist Church students, from left, Jameson Dawson, Sydney Greenstone, Charla Segars, Martin Ledford, Student Pastor Eric Segars and Jones Pressley wash a Clay County Deputy’s car.
    Mount Pleasant Baptist Church students, from left, Jameson Dawson, Sydney Greenstone, Charla Segars, Martin Ledford, Student Pastor Eric Segars and Jones Pressley wash a Clay County Deputy’s car.
  • Mount Pleasant volunteers, from left, Bob Storring, Eric Segars, Dan Sams and Garrett Segars load benches to deliver to the historical Indian trail.
    Mount Pleasant volunteers, from left, Bob Storring, Eric Segars, Dan Sams and Garrett Segars load benches to deliver to the historical Indian trail.
  • Tim Thompson fires up grill, cooking hamburgers for the first responders’ night.
    Tim Thompson fires up grill, cooking hamburgers for the first responders’ night.
    Michelle Goble hands out gift bags at Clay County Care Center.

    Michelle Goble hands out gift bags at Clay County Care Center.

    By Phil Goble Jr.

    Guest Writer

     

    Mount Pleasant Baptist Church joined hundreds of churches across the state Aug. 3-10 in a joint initiative called ServeNC, which had them all stepping outside their walls and into their communities. More than 1,000 churches across the state participated.

    The initiative, organized by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina encouraged churches small and large to become the hands and feet of Jesus through service projects in their communities.

    Mount Pleasant Baptist saw more than 70 volunteers work on four projects that touched nearly 200 people in our community. The four projects were:

    • Tuesday, Aug. 6: Our Tuesday Tea ladies group led a luncheon and ice cream social for the IDD community.

    • Wednesday, Aug. 7: MPBC put on a dinner and car wash for the first responders in our area.

    • Saturday, Aug. 10: Workers built and installed four benches on the historic Indian trail in downtown Hayesville.

    • Saturday, Aug. 10 – Volunteers visited the Clay County Care Center handing out gift bags to the residents and cookies and brownies to the staff. They also brought a guitar and banjo for an impromptu concert in the facility’s general-purpose room.

    “We enjoyed all the projects this week,” said Pam Storring who spearheaded the projects for the week. “We are grateful for all who participated and for so many we were able to serve this week.”

    The volunteers came from all age groups at Mount Pleasant, with students and children helping to wash first responder vehicles and sing at the Clay County Care Center to young families and seniors helping with the meals and building project. It was a week that Mount Pleasant plans to repeat in the future.

    It was a great week and was a blessing to be part of these projects. To see the smiles and shake hands with people around our community was such a huge gift for us. This is what we were called to do. We are praying this week lights a fire for service that spreads across our world.

    Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is at 50 Marvin Cabe Lane in Hayesville. The church’s website is: www.mountpleasantbc.org. MPBC has Sunday school each week at 9:45 a.m. with worship following at 11 a.m. On Wednesdays the focus shifts to students and children with a meal at 5:45 p.m. and classes from 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.