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Liquid Church Brings 200+ Volunteers For A 26-Hour Continuous Extreme Makeover of Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen in New Brunswick

By Kenny Jahng
Liquid Church, one of New Jersey’s fastest growing churches, led a multi-city community service campaign responding to the urgent needs of various social service organizations. Liquid Church is celebrating its 5-year anniversary in 2012. And instead of presents or a celebration in its honor, the church has asked hundreds of members to give back to some of the most underserved populations, such as those with HIV/AIDS, the homeless and families without food security.
Liquid Church, which has campuses in New Brunswick, Morristown and Nutley, is coordinated large-scale community service projects in those cities during the weekend of June 1 -2 .
From 4pm June 1 to 6pm June 2, an extreme makeover during a 26-hour marathon took place in New Brunswick at Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen, which serves over 100,000 meals a year. Over 200 volunteers signed-up to build kitchen shelving and organization, install new lighting and fixtures, replace bathroom fixtures, purchase and install café furniture and repaint the facility. Total budget for the construction project exceeds $20,000. The church will hosted a BBQ so that Elijah’s Promise can continue to serve clients while under construction.
An additional 175 volunteers worked on various service projects throughout Nutley for on June 2. And another 300+ volunteers renovated the NJ AIDS Services facility in Morristown on June 1 and 2.
Tim Lucas, lead pastor of Liquid Church noted, "At Liquid, we believe the best way to demonstrate our love for God is by loving our neighbors in need. We want to challenge Christians to put their faith into action by helping the homeless, the hungry, and the hurting all across New Jersey this Spring."
Liquid Church is one of NJ’s fastest-growing Christian churches. Founded in 2001 by Lead Pastor Tim Lucas, the church’s vision is to “take church to the people” with campuses in Morristown, New Brunswick, and Nutley. Nearly 2,500 people experience Liquid’s worship services each weekend in New Jersey and around the globe through Church Online. As a part of its global outreach Liquid provides clean drinking water to the poorest of the poor with dozens of completed projects in Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Haiti and El Salvador.