Bondi Bowls will be featured at the Feed Lake Highlands 10th Birthday Celebration.

Lake Highlands United Methodist Church flipped the script in 1996. After years of inviting neighbors from nearby apartment communities to worship with them in their building with little success, they gathered resources and volunteers and moved into recreation rooms of complexes to offer worship services there. The project was a hit, and expansion followed.

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By 2007, the church opened the New Room Community Center on Whitehurst to bring these congregations together and expand services. Five years later, Feed Lake Highlands was born.

Feed Lake Highlands is a nonprofit working to address food insecurity in our neighborhood – but their services go far beyond their name. In addition to their food distribution program, they collect and distribute new and gently used clothing, household items and furniture, provide after school homework help, send kids to summer camp and sustain families and elderly residents in a host of physical and spiritual ways.

This Saturday from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Feed Lake Highlands will celebrate its tenth birthday with a community event at LHUMC. The party will include Bondi Bowls, hot dogs, popcorn, bounce houses, a trackless train, face painting, games, a DJ and more. The event is open to the public, and attendance is free.

LHUMC is at 9015 Plano Road. You may donate to Feed LH here. You may sign up to volunteer here.

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  • Carol Toler

    Blogger CAROL TOLER and her husband, Toby, are the parents of four LHHS graduates. She has an MBA from SMU and is the proud recipient of the Exchange Club of LH's Unsung Hero Award and Councilman McGough's Blake Anderson Public Service Award. She received LHHS PTA's Extended Service Award, FMJH PTA's Charger Award and a Life Membership from the LHFC PTA. She has moderated candidate debates for Dallas Mayor, Dallas City Council and RISD Trustee races and taught seminars on garnering publicity for nonprofits. She completed training with Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation and Inside RISD, and she's a sustaining member of LH Women's League. She has served on the boards of After8 to Educate, Dallas Free Press, Healing Hands Ministries and Camp Sweeney and chaired fundraisers for multiple Dallas nonprofits. Email ctoler@advocatemag.com.