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Local church gives out 5,000 meals
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Hopewell Baptist Church members Lisa Phillips, left, and Jackie Martin prepare plates of food Sunday for the residents of Brentwood Apartments . - photo by Tom Reed
One Gainesville church set out to be a part of a miracle on Sunday afternoon. Hopewell Baptist Church in Gainesville fed more than 5,000 people after their morning church service. Dwight Joy, the church’s mission pastor, said the idea was inspired by a story in the Bible in which Jesus feeds 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish.