Thank you for your support of DCOM with your prayers, monetary donations, volunteer hours and donations to Blessings in Store.  DCOM has been able to reach out to the people of our communities and share God’s love with others.  Without your continued support none of this would be possible.  Every day at the crisis center and the thrift store we see God’s love and we are as blessed as those we are reaching out to!  At the December board meeting we voted to accept “Feed Our Hungry Children” under our umbrella and to begin the process needed to start the Backpack Buddies program in 5 local schools, Wallace Elementary, Rose Hill-Magnolia Elementary, Chinquapin Elementary, Charity Middle, and Wallace-Rose Hill High School.  This program should be launched by the end of January and more details will follow. Saturday, December 17, several of the board members met with Duncan MacCalman from Chapel Hill.  We discussed several possibilities for reaching out to our communities but we concentrated on one additional ministry to DCOM.  We have wanted to add a soup kitchen to the ministry and now we have begun to work on this dream. Our first order of business is to find a place to have the soup kitchen.  We need a house or other suitable building with a kitchen.  We would prefer a donated building that we could use and possibly upgrade the kitchen area to suit our needs. Next we will have to develop a budget.  With the budget we will need to do a menu and what will be needed to stock the kitchen and eating area.  If you are interested in being part of the soup kitchen ministry or have a building that we could use, please contact one of the board members, you can call DCOM (285-6000), Blessings in Store (285-5557) or Lois McCartney (285-5766) and leave a message.