First Assembly Of God: A Short Story

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At First Assembly of God on Friday, July 11, locals crowded the small church parking lot, picking out backpacks, clothes and other goodies made available by four people who came together to give back to Blythe.
Praying everyday for the past four weeks at 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., Cyndi Silvas said her and Pastor Clifford Short and Pastor Greg Terrazas sought the Lord on how they could work together for the good of the community.
“We’ve been praying for something like this,”Silvas said, “but we only had the clothes.”
Thanks to a brother in Christ by the name Hector, a Blythe resident who helped the trio receive 200 backpacks from Abundant Life Church in Indio, after their donation of 1,000 backpacks in the area, First Assembly of God and Church of God’s vision came to life. …show more content…

Giving back to the people of Blythe, the church yard was packed with an overflow of many grateful hearts taking home backpacks packed with school supplies, soap, clothes in baby, small children, women and men’s sizes and baby formula.
However, before anyone was able to leave, households were fed a free spaghetti dinner, including buttered toast and corn.
As some parents shook the hands of the church leaders and shared just how thankful they were, because of the nice things the church were doing, one resident said she was very happy to be able to start the school year, by finally having everything checked off her list.
“This shows that churches can come together, no matter the denomination and work together for the good of our community,” Short shared with the Times. “It’s all about the community and we always wanna try to do something.”
“We kept saying we have to do something, we need to do something to bless the people, and God expanded what we even thought of doing,” Silvas

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