Story By: Lola Cortez

 

“God is good”

On November 28, inmates in Albertville City Jails had a blissful Thanksgiving. New Harmony Baptist Church program, Celebrate Recovery members come together this Thanksgiving to remind inmates ‘’God is good,” and demonstrate what thanksgiving is all about.

Sterling Sparks the director of Celebrate Recovery in New Harmony Baptist Church, was in charge of making a place for people who didn’t have an opportunity to have Thanksgiving dinner. Church members gather together to prep meals for more than a hundred and fifty members of the community including inmates in jail and the work release program.

“We’ve been blessed with enough food for people who are in work release and people that are in the city jail,” said Sparks

After preparing the meals, the church members gather together around the food to say a prayer. They then headed to the city jail.

This is an important mission for most of the members of Celebrate Recovery as they too have been in jail before.

“I too have been in these jails, said Cassey Lasseter, a member of Celebrate Recovery, “and then Thanksgiving I missed my family and nobody came in here and tell me about Jesus, its truly important that we give back and let them know that Jesus loves them and the community does as well.”

On a phone interview with Gegina Lindsey, the jail warden, Lindsey mention how this act of kindness from the church brings a positive effect upon the inmates and lets them know they are cared for.

Although this is the church first year prepping meals for inmates, they hope to be able to double the meals next year.