Meeting the needs of the community at Wyee Hub
By Barry Chapman
Wyee Community Hub
Wyee Community Hub was born from humble beginnings around three years ago. There was a plan to develop a building that could host community projects. The pandemic stopped most of the development as building was slow, prices were increasing and the budget we had set out was starting to blow out.
I recall going to bed countless nights pleading with God. "I know this is Your project. We are going to run out of money. It's in Your hands," I prayed. After these prayers, money started flowing in and we were able to generate the funds needed.
We are amazed at how God is opening the windows of heaven and pouring out blessings on the Wyee Community Hub Program. Our weekly program has expanded to a level never dreamed of. Each week on Thursday we offer food support to the community. We are now supplying more than 100 food hampers each week. There are approximately 50 volunteers supporting the program, about half of which are from the community.
Our 'Doing Life Together' program is a mental health, counselling, training, and well-being service that is run by mental health professionals, psychologists and counsellors who voluteer their time. This is run on Thursday afternoon and around 40 people attend weekly.
Between these two programs, we now have many people attending church weekly. God is certainly using these tow methods of evangelism to impact the community, people often ask why we do this. The answer is simple, it is one of the things Jesus asked us to do!
Wyee Community Hub
The Wyee Seventh-day Adventist Church and its dedicated team of volunteers are doing wonderful things to help support our community. Each Thursday they open the Wyee Community Hub Inc where people who are doing it tough can go in and pick up some fresh food, groceries, clothing and shoes at a greatly discounted prices.