Ebenezer Baptist Church runs clothing drive

Ebenezer Baptist Church hosts a clothing drive. (Photo taken from Ebenezer Baptist Church’s website)

Ebenezer Baptist Church (EBC) runs a clothing drive to help people during winter.

The church’s website says Restoring One’s Hope of Atlanta, INC (ROHA) accepts donations for clothes. They added that they would appreciate it if members could give blankets, coats, sweaters, and other things to help against the freezing temperatures.

Besides, the church announced dropoff areas in the EBC Narthex, MLK Resource Center, and the EBC Education Building.

Ebenezer Missionary Union

In another section, the church highlighted that Ebenezer’s Missionary Union (EMU) advocates missions locally and internationally to help the ministries of the church.

They also deal with the needs of the sick and shut-in members of the local and global communities, as explained on the website.

According to the website, EMU is composed of 11 mission circles whose main goal is to give glory and serve God. They noted that as missionaries, they accepted God’s great commission to accomplish Jesus’ mission in the world.

The EMU stressed that they are “called to love.”

Supporting People

The same website emphasized that EMU offers lunch at the Genesis Shelter for homeless families. They also give hair care services to the Sadie G. Mays Nursing Home people.

They mentioned that they help in prison ministries through evangelizing and giving financial shares. Also, EMU provides book scholarships to upcoming college students.

As further posted, EMU works in global mission projects identified by the leadership, like donating budget to dig wells in Haiti. They added that they sponsor mission trips to Africa and partner with other church groups that do mission initiatives.

Restoring One’s Hope of Atlanta Inc.

The organization’s website states that ROHA is a nonprofit group that offers food security to homeless individuals in Atlanta, Georgia. They aim to restore hope to the hopeless through their hunger relief initiatives.

According to the website, Brittany Johnson founded the organization in 2019 and served as the Executive Director. They revealed that they had served more than 9,000 free meals and hygiene kits to the vulnerable population in the City of Atlanta since it was established.

In addition, they said that they had expanded their efforts from serving once a month to serving every week.

Impact

The same website noted that their economic influence since 2019 in the Atlanta area is nearly $80,000 through monetary and in-kind gifts. They explained that some of their corporate supporters or contributors include EBC, Chick-fil-a, Kroger, and Walmart.

Besides, they acknowledge the support of Publix, Pepsi, State Farm, Atlanta Dream, McKesson, etc.

ROHA emphasized that they strive to raise their impact by offering additional meals, clothes, hygiene kits, and linkage to resources for vulnerable people.

Facts about Homelessness

The ROHA’s homepage revealed that 580,000 people are unhoused in the United States. The nine thousand people living in Georgia are among them, as added on the website.

As further mentioned, three thousand men and women live in the street of Metro Atlanta. They pointed out that 494 young adults from 18 to 24 years old are homeless.