February Urban Hands: City Gate & Haymarket Baptist Church Host Community Outreach and Clothing Give-away Day
Saturday, February 3rd youth and adult volunteers from Haymarket Baptist Church hosted a community outreach day. Volunteers assisted with setting up tables of clothing on the front lawn of the Johenning Center, and neighborhood children in the after-school program made signs to advertise the event. We gave away many pieces of clothing of all sizes for men, women, children, boys, girls, and infants. Also volunteers served hot chocolate and soup, perfect for a cold winter's day. About twenty children and their families attended; we even used the opportunity to converse with neighborhood residents about what they would like to see City Gate do in the future.
Thanks Haymarket Baptist Church!
Youth set up tables outside (left). Jerramey displays the sign he made (right).
People from the neighborhood come for food and clothes (left). Volunteers help sort clothes for the closet (right).
Everyone needs a helping hand once in a while (left). A rousing basketball game was also had (right).
Dr. Lynn Bergfalk, City Gate's executive director, thanks the kitchen crew (left). Haymarket youth take a quick break from the cold in the nice, warm kitchen! (right)
The whole Haymarket Baptist crew, with fearless leader, Matthew Hensley (far left).