My Brother’s Keeper is an outreach center in the Alief community which provides assistance that stabilizes and strengthens individuals and families in crisis. It does this by providing food and clothing, financial assistance, and counseling. During the past year, we assisted with their Thanksgiving and Easter outreaches. Renae Nelson, a member of our church, directs this mission and we are honored to come alongside her.
At the Thanksgiving outreach, our people brought bundles of food to the church. All of that bounty made it possible for My Brother’s Keeper to give out 505 meals to families, feeding a total of 2,320 people. This was only MBK’s second year to provide Thanksgiving meals. For the Easter outreach, we provided dozens of Resurrection Eggs, which are a unique tool to share the story of the resurrection.
Be watching for details on upcoming church wide outreaches at My Brother's Keeper.
On Wednesday nights we have Music and Missions - a time when our kids learn the songs we sing on Sundays so they can join in and sing praises to the King right along with everyone else. But not only do they learn the songs - they learn what the words they are singing mean. We go through the songs line by line making sure that they understand and many times their understanding of the words or their explanations have bring tears to the eyes of those lucky enough to be helping out with these amazing children.
In addition to learning the songs we also teach them about missions. What it means to be on mission. Who God has called. Answering the questions - do I have to be a certain age, do I have to go away from home.
Each week we either learn about a missionary, or mission opportunity in our area. For the last two weeks we have been telling them about My Brother’s Keeper and the great things they do for our community, especially for Thanksgiving. We called upon their artistic abilities to decorate the bags that will be filled with all kinds of Thanksgiving yumminess to be handed out this year. Here are just a few pictures of our kids hard at work!!
