It’s been a busy couple of weeks! First we dropped off a big bag of books to Kirkpatrick Elementary for the grandmother of one of the students there. She wanted to make sure she had appropriate books in her home for her grandchild.
Nate Paulk of Trinity Community Ministry
Next we took a big load of books to Trinity Community Ministry. They are building a lending library for their neighborhood and they also do a community meal on Tuesday nights. While we were there, the coordinator Nate Paulk stopped two different neighbors walking by just to check on them. One asked us if we would pray for his mother who was in the hospital. So we did, right there in the parking lot off Trinity. It’s not just about books and kids.
Then we took books to McNeilly Center for Children and met Natalie Foxx. McNeilly has been serving kids for nearly 100 years and currently serves 280 children age 0-5. They are adding books to their lending library and setting some aside to send home with kids.
Natalie Foxx and the boxes of books we brought to McNeilly.
Finally we stopped back at Shelby Park Community Center to drop off dictionaries and a couple of encyclopedia sets to Mr. Randy to go with the books and book shelf we brought him a few weeks ago.
Mr. Randy modelling some new encyclopedias in the homework room at Shelby Community Center
It’s been great getting to know these people and find out more about how they serve kids in East Nashville. We are glad to be a small part in their efforts to get kids reading.