Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Anesis Therapy this week celebrated five years of providing free mental health services for the community on Madison’s south side, and continued to seek donations to build a new building for that and other community programs.
The weekly free drop-in clinic is open from 10 am to 2 pm every Thursday. It started in October 2020, in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At an event Monday, Senior Pastor Marcus Allen said the need was present long before the pandemic, as parishioners often came to him with issues he wasn’t fully able to address…