Feeding The Community Through Ministry

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI)- With the temperatures continuing to drop everyone could use a nice hot meal.

To help accommodate with that, House of Faith Ministries in Tupelo hosted its first ever Food Ministry.

The ministry cooked hot meals and served them to 100 hungry people in the Tupelo community.

Bringing light to God’s people.  That’s what Pastors Aundra Payne and James Bradley are all about.

“We want to be that light to God’s people,” Spirit of Life Ministry Pastor James Bradley said.

But things didn’t start out so bright for Bradley.

Bradley he spent his younger years being in the streets and hooked on drugs.

“I truly got to thank God for God seeing a great future in me,” he said. “People used to look down on me, tell me I would always be a junkie, I would never amount to nothing, but I heard a voice name Jesus Christ, that said, I believe in you.”

 
And Bradley listened to that voice, which led him to meeting Pastor Payne.

“God connected me with House of Faith Ministries, and connected me with Pastor Payne, and he had given us a great vision,” Bradley said.

And that great vision led the two pastors into forming a Food Ministry.

“We know what we came from up in this community, we came up sometimes we didn’t have anything to eat, sometimes we didn’t have no clothes so now it’s time for us to give back, even though we don’t have much, we want to give what we had,” House of Faith Ministries Pastor Aundra Payne said.

On Saturday, the ministry cooked up grilled cheese sandwiches and made hot soup to feed to the community.

“Well, the goal, in the name of Jesus Christ our lord and savior, is to try and feed 100 people,” Bradley said.

“We’re trying to feed all the homeless people and give them what they need,” Payne said. “We’re gonna go down under the bridge, we got some that’s coming from the salvation army.”

Both Pastors said giving, is what the ministry is all about.

“Sometimes people do this on Christmas Day, Mother’s Day, but you can’t just do this on holidays, you got to do it every time you see God trying to meet the need if people, you got to do it all the time,” Payne said.

 
The pastors will host their Food Ministry every fourth Saturday of each month at the House of Faith Ministries Church in Tupelo.