North Flint’s food and nutrition options will continue expanding with the announcement of funding to support a new supermarket development. Among 17 grants, the Fresh Start Community Development Center was awarded $250,000 to help launch what’s being described as an affordable outlet for nutritional produce and other healthy retail options. New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist […]
The first of three new grocery stores slated for development in North Flint has opened. The ribbon cutting at Hamady Complete Food Center represents yet another sign of the city’s recovery, says Michigan Works! Executive Karen Hemphill, who headed efforts to fill more than 100 new jobs available at the store located in the Hallwood […]
When the last big-box grocery store left Flint, about 100,000 residents were left with one less major shopping option for affordable, fresh food. The void punctuated by Kroger’s closing on Davison Road in 2015 left residents, community leaders and local government to seek solutions, but the effort has grown into something bigger. Several independent retail […]
Pastor Kenneth Stewart is driven by an African American proverb, which originated in the ante bellum south during slavery. “Each one reach one. Each one teach one.” The idea is for everyone to pull the next one up the ladder. Originally from Pine Bluff, Ark., that’s the same philosophy Stewart follows as pastor of the […]
To make sure his congregation and community enjoy healthy food options one pastor took it upon himself to find resources to feed more Flint residents. Pastor Patrick Wayne Sanders of New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist Church at 1035 East Carpenter Road, developed the nonprofit Fresh Start CDC about five years ago, around the same time […]
When his uncle, Bishop Odis A. Floyd, appointed him interim pastor of the New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist Church in June 2011 it set in motion a vibrant and passionate viewpoint to the church. Shortly after Floyd died, Sanders was elected senior pastor of the church in December 2011, and has since served as a […]