FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) — The Christian Covenant Fellowship of Ministries (CCFM) held a major food distribution event Saturday at the Florence Center.
It’s a part of CCFM’s annual conference that connects people from 14 states and nearly 80 churches and ministries.
Bishop Michael Blue and his wife Malinda Tart Blue are the pastors of Door of Hope Christian Church in Marion, where CCFM originated, according to the church’s website.
This is the 25th year of CCFM, and 19 of those conferences have been held at the Florence Center.
“Because this is a celebratory year for us, we wanted to do something that demonstrated to God and to people just how grateful we are. And so, through a partnership with World Vision International, we were able to provide a distribution this morning,” said Bishop Blue.
“A distribution of household goods. Which includes some food and some appliances, and all of those things. And freely given volunteers from among us. Volunteers from Facts of Life Church in Whiteville, N.C. The Marion Co. Long Term Recovery Group, Marion County, S.C., Q2 Construction, Mr. Deon Sanders, and his construction team. And many volunteers, from CCFM, the conference, and the fellowship.”
“We are here to say to our Father, our Heavenly Father, that we appreciate his goodness,” said Bishop Blue.
CCFM began as a small group of pastors in the year 2000, who decided to “network and unite for the purpose of synergistic strength has evolved into an organism connecting 14 states and nearly 80 affiliated churches/ministries.”
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CCFM is a dynamic entity that strives to empower faith-based community leaders who will, in turn, inspire and instruct all people, particularly the young, to attain their optimal potential, for the good of all, according to the CCFM website.
Since those initial gatherings in 2000 and 2001, officials said tremendous growth took place with the conference.
The churches and ministries affiliated with the Fellowship are located in the following states:
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Ohio
- Wisconsin
- Indiana
- Georgia
- Florida
- Virginia
- Illinois
The conference has attracted speakers from all over the country, including “John Maxwell, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Bishop John Francis, Pastor Marvin Sapp, Pastor Kimberly Ray, Bishop Noel Jones, Pastor Darlene Bishop, Pastor Suzie Owens, Bishop Harold Ray, Dr. Mark Chironna, Bishop Tudor Bismark, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Pastor Jamal Bryant, Bishop Liston Page, Jr., Pastor Sheryl Brady, Bishop Norman Wagner, Bishop Andrew Merritt, Evangelist Joyce Rodgers, Dr. Cindy Trimm, Pastor John Hannah, Dr. Kelley Varner, Pastor Marvin Winans, Bishop Bobby Hilton, Bishop Melvin Lambert, Bishop Charles McDowell.
National gospel recording artists have graced the conference, including ” William Murphy III, Earnest Pugh, Martha Munizzi, Maurette Brown-Clark, Blanche McAllister-Dykes, Jonathan McReynolds, Todd Dulaney, The Anointed Pace Sisters, Wendi H. Wyatt, James Fortune, Leandria Johnson, Youthful Praise, Kathy Taylor, Eddie James, Stephen Hurd, Karen Clark-Sheard, Maranda Curtis, Kierra Sheard, Jekalyn Carr, Kurt Carr, and many others.”
The event started on Tuesday and wrapped up on Saturday.
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