By God's Grace...

Summer 2020 has been filled with blessings beyond measure. Burdens have bombarded as we, the people of Sampson County, stand strong together in Christian love, pray, not allow any form of division to spoil His plans for us to prosper - put personal agendas aside - step in faith - shine as unified believers with our focus on THEE - and let our little (we love JESUS) lights shine - SAMPSON STRONG - for all the world to see! Then, people put in places making harmful decisions and people living in hometowns and hurting places across America can see what God can do when we keep our focus on THEE ...and take it off ‘we’! Pictures on Tim’s Gift/ Learning Station page (provided by a Good Samaritan in our hometown) portray the joy of Sonshine Kids from The Learning Station sharing Jesus throughout Sampson County during Summer 2020. These children prayed with people, shared seven hundred fifty cards at businesses and with people who came to Tim’s Gift for help - - with 2 Chronicles 7:14 and their personal messages of hope on them, made and gave away hundreds of heart cards that said, “Good News - Jesus Loves You”, and praised and worshipped the Lord every day, enjoyed trips to Papa Pete’s Family Farm, and are presently decorating three hundred bag for Helping Hands to use in a community event to honor those who serve Sampson strong! By God’s Grace… CIndy Byrd - owner and manager of Dominoes in Clinton - and I have shared thirty years of growing a close friendship (we are sisters in Christ) and our businesses. Cindy’s love for the Lord, her family, employees, and customers shines brightly as she humbly serves and happily helps people God put in her path. During Summer 2020, Cindy, her daughter - Ashley,and faithful team at Dominoes teamed up with Tim’s Gift to share pizzas and prayer with HEROES throughout our city and county. Giving a ‘shout out’ to Cindy for her beautiful benevolent spirit of giving, example of hard work and strong faith, and taking time to tend to things that matter most…(as Jesus did) - listening, loving, and looking for ways to help people wherever He leads! Thank you Cindy for believing in the power of possibilities through Prayer and Pizza… and being a faithful friend!

PIZZA & PRAYER
By: Cynthia Byrd, owner of Dominoe's

When the idea of "Pizza and A Prayer " was being formed, Becky's sister came by the store (Domino's) this particular day. She was working on a fundraiser. We began to talk. It was the first time that I had heard the entire story of how Tim's Gifts was created. It was a touching story. I had this desire to give food to people in need, but didn't know exactly how to go about that. When I told her sister this, she went to Becky and told her about our conversation. Becky had the means and the way to get pizza to folks and I had the product. We put our ideas together and with a few trial runs, it evolved into how it's done today! I just wanted to give to folks who may need a meal or may need to know that people DO care about others. Sometimes it's the small things that a person may say or do that makes a big difference in someone's day or life. Just a small kind act means so much, and sometimes we don't even know how much it may really mean to that person. Life can be so hard and difficult at times.