EDITORIAL: ShareFest Waco yields the harvest of good works
The ability to gather hundreds of people from several different churches, inspiring them to come together for a third annual day of community volunteering, known as ShareFest Waco, should make our community proud.
About 400 volunteers from six area churches dropped denominational boundaries and worked side by side Saturday assisting the poor, elderly and tiniest among us through nine community service projects spread throughout Central Texas.
After gathering for a brief worship service at the Extraco Events Center (formerly the Heart O’ Texas Fairgrounds,) volunteers prayed together in circles, then headed off for various jobs. Some landscaped, others painted, some spruced up an elderly residence, others broke up a sidewalk and painted a drug rehabilitation center, while some delivered food and manned a blood drive at the fairgrounds.
Harris Creek Baptist Church worship pastor Drew Greenway was among several volunteers who helped resurface a playground at Talitha Koum Institute, a child care center that helps poor infants. Greenway said helping another nonprofit institute that helps others was personally satisfying. And he enjoyed working alongside brethren from yet other denominations.
“You do it to be a blessing to someone else but it’s always a blessing to you as well, and to see the churches come together and drop their denominational lines and serve together is really neat,” Greenway told us.
He added that whenever he passes the south Waco institute and sees the building’s newly stained front door — which his group painted — he’ll think of his day of service.
So will we. Perhaps it’ll inspire yet more to join in the good work next time.
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