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Someone commented to me recently that “The church looks half empty.” From up front I can see some empty rows. (One solution would be to set up fewer chairs so the place looks more full!) Actually our attendance has been pretty good given the flu bug that’s going around — from a low of 160 to a high of 192 over the past couple of months.
What is interesting to me is to try to get a handle on how the church is doing other than the usual things we tend to measure — “noses and nickels.” One of the things I love about our church is our emphasis on serving in the community. The big one is our bread ministry. Four men work the “bread run” every Tuesday morning. They estimate that they serve six hundred people every week. In four hours they deliver bread and other food items to needy people in several challenging neighborhoods, the Newark Senior Center, Meals on Wheels, Aletheia School, and individuals along the way.
Also on Tuesday our members, along with members of the Cedars church, are busy preparing meals for the Blue Hens for Christ Campus Ministry. On a typical Tuesday over fifty students will gather for a meal and Bible study.
If you’ve ever been by our building during the week, the halls echo with the voices of children being educated through Aletheia Christian School and Child Care. Also in a typical week our People’s House, located behind the church building, serves three families with a loved one in an area hospital, although at times all five rooms are full.
On the first Thursday of the month members serve a meal at Hope Dining Room. And several times a week someone will stop in needing groceries, which are supplied by our members through their donations to the food pantry.
So how is our church doing? In terms of our commitment to minister to “the least of these” — things could hardly be better!

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