February 16, 2024
Charlotte, NC - Spring is almost here, but there is still much time to make an impact in 2024: volunteer. While every new year does not promise a guarantee on our resolutions, volunteering to impact your community produces lifelong benefits. In the past two years, I joined great outreach organizations such as the Charlotte Mecklenburg Dream Center.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Dream Center was founded in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Jim and Karen Noble. A branch of the Los Angeles-based Dream Center Network, CMDC’s mission, according to its website, is to “raise up disciples and transform communities through consistent, Christ-centered, community-based engagement, and meeting the needs of the whole person—spirit, soul, and body.” The Dream Center meets the needs of its community by hosting and performing outreach to Charlotte’s underserved and homeless population throughout the week.
Volunteers can join any program throughout the week to serve the Charlottean community. A few of the programs I have participated in include Sunday Meal Service, Friday Night Food Prep, Friday Night Street Ministry, YTH Night Live, and Adopt-A-Block. The beauty of these programs is that one can serve both adults and children throughout these ministries. Particularly, Adopt-A-Block often serves three underserved neighborhoods in Charlotte: J.T. Williams, Reid Park, and Thomasboro. On its website, CMDC states its mission for these neighborhoods is “to give hope and bring transformation . . . through consistent and dedicated home visits, relationship building and physical acts of service.”
Let this year be the year that you share that Gospel message through serving those who may never hear the gospel or know God’s love without your presence in their lives.
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