Editorial: A home of its own

We couldn't be happier for the Mooresville Soup Kitchen, which as found a place to call its own.

This week the ministry, which annually serves more than 24,000 free hot lunches to area residents, opened the doors of its brand new location on South Broad Street.

Located in the former home of an auto parts store, the soup kitchen has a spacious dining room and a well-equipped kitchen, all paid for by contributions from the community.

The best part, though, is simply the fact that the building gives the soup kitchen a permanent home. First Baptist Church generously lent the organization space in a fellowship hall for many years, but the ministry never really had its "own" site. Until now.

A community of churches, businesses and individuals that has been phenomenally generous with monetary and food donations for years is to be thanked for making the soup kitchen's new building a reality.

The beneficiaries, of course, are all those folks who depend on the good, hot meal available to them there each weekday. On their behalf we say thanks, Mooresville, for giving vibrant new life to the soup kitchen.