By JEFFREY SMITH
Leader staff writer
The North Pulaski Baptist Association and the Arkansas Baptist State Convention are teaming up for a day of community service from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in Jacksonville, Sherwood, north Pulaski County, North Little Rock and Maumelle.
Associational missionary Dennis Wilkins with the North Pulaski Baptist Association said more than 2,000 volunteers from 50 churches in the North Pulaski Baptist Association and churches from all over the state will meet at 8 a.m. at the North Little Rock High School football stadium and then spread out to dozens of locations in the area.
Volunteers can sign up at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at North Little Rock High School. Groups will leave at 8 a.m. and return by 4 p.m. with a celebration service.
“The North Pulaski Baptist Association has a community service day in the spring and fall. The State Association has one a year in a different area of the state,” Wilkins said.
“As Christians, we are called to reach out to people in need. The day of service is a lesson to all of us that we can do it individually. But on this scale, we can see how it all works. People are coming from various parts of life – professionals, blue-collar and students – working on a common goal. It is a demonstration of unity, to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the community,” Wilkins said.
The associations will feed on-duty police, fire and paramedics. They will have senior adult ministries. They will be doing yard work and home repairs for north Pulaski County residents.
Block parties with free lunch and games will be held in Jacksonville at Bayou Meto Baptist Church, 26200 Hwy. 107; Stonewall Park, Lakeside Estates, 2613 E. Coffelt Road; Christ Centered Fellowship, 111 N. Oak St. and Runyan First Baptist Church, 10611 Jacksonville Cato Road.
In Sherwood at the vacant lot on 119 Country Club Road; Oakbrooke Elementary School, 2200 Thornhill Drive; Connection Church, 14322 Hwy. 107; Kohl’s parking lot, 7600 Warden Road; Indianhead Lake Baptist Church, 8601 Indianhead Drive and Iglesia Bautista Betel, 2300 E. Lee St.
Free medical and dental services held in Jacksonville at Bayou Meto Baptist Church, 26200 Hwy. 107; Options Pregnancy Center, 1409 Madden Road and Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, 1017 Ray Road. In Sherwood at Iglesia Bautista Betel, 2300 E. Lee St.
Free food distribution in Jacksonville at Christ Centered Fellowship, 111 N. Oak St. and Runyan First Baptist Church, 10611 Jacksonville Cato Road. In Sherwood at Kohl’s parking lot, 7600 Warden Road.
Free laundromat service at the Super Suds locations, 1000 Stone St. in Jacksonville and 3301 E. Kiehl Ave. in Sherwood.
Free children’s activities in Jacksonville at Options Preg-nancy Center, 1409 Madden Road, Maddox Road Baptist Church, 702 E. Maddox Road. In north Pulaski County at Zion Hill Baptist Church, 11923 Zion Hill Road. In Sherwood at Park Crest Apartments, 100 Manson Road.
Free children’s fishing derbies at Lake Cherrywood in Sherwood and North Pulaski Community Park, 5705 W. Republican Road.
Free car washes at in Jacksonville at Bethel Baptist Church, 112 N. Jeff Davis Ave. In Sherwood at Friendship Baptist Church, 10150 Brockington Road and at Auto Spa, 8521 Hwy. 107; Splash Car Wash, 14323 Hwy. 107 and Suds Carwash, 25401 Hwy. 107.
