Ken Stover and his wife, Sandra, have traveled many places distributing basic necessities to people in need.
For the past 27 years, their ministry, dubbed “Sonrise Ministries,” has offered food, clothing and shelter to people from the Navajo Nation in Arizona to folks in the Appalachian Mountains. Now Stover says the Lord has led them to take their ministry to southwest Georgia.
The Stovers arrived in Georgetown in July from Marion County, Miss. – one of the poorest counties in the state. Sonrise Ministries operated shelters there for homeless people and abused women and children. The ministry also distributed hot meals to the homeless and homebound and sponsored faith-based fairs each Halloween in the poor neighborhoods of Columbia, Miss. When Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi and Louisiana in 2005, Sonrise Ministries fed those affected by the disaster.
“Our town was almost wiped out,” said Stover. “We were feeding 800 people a day.”
Sonrise Ministries has also distributed necessities to the needy in the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico and to people in the Appalachian Mountains, delivering tons of food, clothing and cleaning supplies.
When the Stovers arrived in southwest Georgia during the summer, they understood that needy people were still around them.
“When the Lord released us to come here, we realized that some of the poorest counties in Georgia are surrounding us,” said Stover.
Read more on this story in the midweek Tribune.
To learn more about Sonrise Ministries, visit sonriseworldministries.org.
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