Faith
February 6, 2025
St. Paul UMC looks to create sense of community with soup kitchen
Soup kitchens are nothing new in the Christian church. Every day you can find churchgoers preparing and serving meals for the needy.
While the soup kitchen is a well-known fixture of ministry work, St. Paul United Methodist Church is using theirs to serve more than just sustenance.
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Weekly Column
February 5, 2025
I have been a Christian for 40 years, having put my faith in Christ Jesus on April 2, 1984, in a small church in south Florida. I began to perceive familiar things differently my mind being renewed in Christ. However, there were aspects of my new life that were not familiar. I quickly realized there was an entirely new vocabulary that I needed to learn. For example, many in my new church family referred to certain Bible verses as their “life verse” and spoke of having a daily “quiet time.” I had no idea what they were talking about.