On cold Michigan nights, one Lansing church is offering families with children a safe place to rest, part of a wider effort to keep vulnerable residents warm this winter.
- With chilly temperatures set to hit our neighborhoods this weekend, a church is transforming to a warming center for children and their families.
- Union Missionary Baptist Church in Lansing started doing it in November and will run through February or March.
- The warming center runs each night starting at 9 p.m. with neighbors chipping in donations and volunteers offering their time.
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Since November, Union Missionary Baptist Church has been turning its gymnasium into an overnight warming center from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The inspiration came when Avid House and the Mayor’s Interfaith Council reached out to area congregations, seeking help for families sleeping in cars.
“We provide warming from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. for families with children… because we felt anything below freezing is too cold for a child,” said Pastor Kenny Craig, the church’s senior pastor. “We decided we wanted to step into that gap.”…