N.J. church brightens the holidays in the darkness of pandemic
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
For eighteen years, Shiloh Baptist Church has helped needy families with Christmas presents and food. Its Community Christmas Celebration has grown bigger and bigger. But not this year.
Pastor Darrell Armstrong, leads volunteers in prayer before the start of the church s annual Community Christmas Celebration to provide toys and food for needy families.Michael Mancuso | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
“We would normally have hundreds of folks up in the sanctuary, then they come downstairs,” Pastor Darrell Armstrong said.
Instead, the event became a drive-thru. “It’s a much smaller scale,” Armstrong said, “but it’s a very heartfelt effort.”