Local church celebrates anniversary with service
Beacon Hill Worship Center pastor Anthony Wheeler shovels mulch at Dublin Park as part of the church’s “Light the Night City-Wide Outreach” on May 1. (Record Photo/Nick Sellers)
By Nick Sellers | Staff Writer
MADISON – To ring in 10 years as a congregation, members of Beacon Hill Worship Center spent their Friday night on May 1 shoveling mulch at Dublin Park, among other service projects around Madison.
Officially dubbed “Light the Night City-Wide Outreach,” the night featured members at different locations throughout the city. In addition to the volunteers who helped spread mulch at the Kid’s Kingdom playground in Dublin Park, volunteers were also stationed at nursing homes and Boys & Girls Club locations in Huntsville on May 1.
“That’s pretty much who we are,” pastor Sa’Brina Wheeler, wife of fellow pastor Anthony Wheeler, said. “We’re really big on our community service. We are called humanitarians.”
The church, which sits off of Old Madison Pike on Miller Boulevard, had between 75-100 members show up to volunteer that day, Anthony estimated.
“We’re a serving church,” he said. “It’s in our DNA.”
The service projects occurred from 5-7 p.m. on May 1, and all members congregated at the Hogan Family YMCA at the conclusion for a celebration.
The next day, the church held a combination leadership/networking panel at the Beacon Center located at Madison Square Mall. Though the mall was sold days before the panel, Anthony said he was confident the center would continue to service the community.
The center has been operational in the mall for months. The space provides free coffee, free wi-fi and place for anyone to gather.
“Wherever it will be, I think it’s going to be great for the city,” Anthony said.
The congregation also maintains an ongoing project that aims to collect 5,000 shoes for children in Honduras, Nigeria and Haiti, in addition to the village near Kampala, Uganda that the church “adopted” some two years ago.
The church’s address is 911 Miller Blvd. in Madison.
