Vinnie and Debra Barbee-Q would like to thank everyone that donated toys and money towards the toy drive. There was 46 families this year, some small and some large.
DECATUR â There is an old joke that says, âJesus is coming ⦠look busy.â
For some, however, Christian charity and doing good works is a regular way of life, and so it came to pass that on Easter Sunday, as has been tradition for the last 20 years, Vinnie and Debra Barbee were making life brighter for somebody else.
Some like it hot: Vinnie Barbee struggles in with a heated server full of his delicious smoked ham.  Tony Reid
Their Easter Dinner for the Homeless was hosted at Decaturâs Water Street Mission and offered no hastily thrown-together meal. The cooking of the juicy smoked ham started the day before and the fragrance of the meat built a stairway to heaven for anticipatory palates.