WXXV News 25
August 2, 2021
Gulf Coast Community Ministries received an unexpected surprise in the mail.
Michael Wilson, executive director of Gulf Coast Community Ministries, checked the mail and to his surprise there was a package filled with hundreds of beautiful individually packaged homemade cards containing scripture and notes of encouragement.
This package was from a woman by the name of Lisa who lives 1,342 miles away in Salt Point, New York. Wilson said, “It took a second to soak in as I got to looking at it, I finally recognized the detail and the level of workmanship that went in to this. It dawned on me that Ms. Lisa must have spent hundreds of hours putting this together so much that I looked her up and found her up in New York state and called her to thank her and just find out her story and why she connected with our ministry down here in Gulfport, Mississippi.”
Gulf Coast Community Ministries is always working to help those physically, emotionally, and spiritually in need. One way the ministry helps is by hosting a free food pantry each Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. The pantry gets over 4,000 pounds worth of food delivered from various churches and Feeding the Gulf […]