By: Amber Jordan
The Hour of Power is a community project through the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, under the leadership of Pastor Carlos Wilson.
The project started in 2014, its purpose is to provide people in the church’s community decent and livable housing. Pastor Wilson and other volunteers from other churches, communities and organizations come together and work on homes that were are damaged before and after the storm in 2013.
Wilson said, “It’s been a long journey for me personally, The Hour of Power is a couple of years old, but I have been cleaning up the community for 18 years.”
Pastor Wilson’s intentions, through other ministries as well as Hour of Power, is to change the community, called the Ghoulas, into something greater than it’s original state.
Wilson said, “I’m a cheerleader for the underdog, I like helping the less fortunate, I love to see people who don’t have some things that others have gain some of those things, that’s always a plus for me.”
Numerous homes have been touched the project and there are still more in the community that need assistance.
The project started in 2014, its purpose is to provide people in the church’s community decent and livable housing. Pastor Wilson and other volunteers from other churches, communities and organizations come together and work on homes that were are damaged before and after the storm in 2013.
Wilson said, “It’s been a long journey for me personally, The Hour of Power is a couple of years old, but I have been cleaning up the community for 18 years.”
Pastor Wilson’s intentions, through other ministries as well as Hour of Power, is to change the community, called the Ghoulas, into something greater than it’s original state.
Wilson said, “I’m a cheerleader for the underdog, I like helping the less fortunate, I love to see people who don’t have some things that others have gain some of those things, that’s always a plus for me.”
Numerous homes have been touched the project and there are still more in the community that need assistance.