12 April 2022
Epicenter Church
2512 Fort Bragg Road
910-485-8855
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Epicenter Church has served those in need with dinners, adopted 250
children in the county foster care system at Christmas and handed out gift
cards to strangers on the streets in Fayetteville.
The church started a separate nonprofit called Ways 2 Love Fayetteville in
2013 and has a goal of logging 20,000 volunteer hours throughout the year.
Prior to the pandemic, the church held Hop in the Park, an event at Festival
Park downtown with a skydiving Easter Bunny and where thousands of
children searched for eggs and candy. The focus is streamlining this year,
with the church concentrating on smaller events that it hopes can impact the
community in a large way.
This past Thanksgiving, Epicenter collected more than 16,000 pounds of
food with a Bumper Crop initiative and served 5,000 meals with its Operation
Compassion Thanksgiving dinner. Members host Hope dinners at the church
each month, serving those in need. It also has a food bank that is open twice
a week. Church members also serve dinner to first responders several times
a year, calling on staff at the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center emergency
room, fire stations and police departments.
It also works with the school system. It has provided goodie bags for
teachers and staff and gift cards that were raffled at schools.
On one weekend alone, church members handed out $3,000 acts of
kindness gift cards to strangers, planted 50 azaleas at J.W. Coon Elementary
School and painted Hurley pots downtown.
Epicenter Church serves
those in need through various
community service initiatives.
Photos
contributed
