DALZELL, S.C. — One Dalzell woman is meeting a growing need in her community with an outreach ministry as part of her nonprofit that provides free, unused household items to anyone in need.
"I like to say servant leader because that's what we’re doing: serving the community," Kimberly O. Green says about her title as founder of the nonprofit Doors of Transformation. "Serving the community means that we are going beyond the walls, the four walls of the church. Serving the community means we are getting out there in the highways and the byways. We are doing what God has said to do: go!"
Green partners with stores and organizations like Walmart to provide free, brand new household items to the Dalzell and surrounding communities, no questions asked.
"Now I'm having to look for volunteers," Green says. "We’re growing and I'm having to meet the need of the growth."
Volunteers to help organize and sort the donations they get.
"I realize this is part of my purpose: to serve others," volunteer Jacqueline Dinkins shares. "We’re all our brothers helpers and anyway I can help, that’s what I want to do."
Dinkins started helping out in October. Since she started serving, Dinkins tells me she recognized just how big of a need there is in her community, which Green thinks is partially due to the rising cost of food and gas from inflation.
"Since the pandemic and the economy, I didn’t realize it was as big of a need but I realized when I came here and started working, yes there are people that are really in need. Even working class people because of inflation. They really need things that they can’t afford anymore. Just general things," Dinkins explains. "There’s a need all over, not just here in Dalzell and surrounding communities. I could see us moving if we had enough volunteers, we could move over the state."
Green says that’s eventually her goal. To get there, she needs more volunteers and wants to raise awareness about what one woman she helped called Dalzell’s best kept secret.
"I said to her, 'It’s not a secret. We want people to know, we want people to come out, we want to serve more," Green remembers.
The organization is taking monetary donations to help with administration fees, unused household items and volunteer work. For more information, you can email Kimberly@DrKimberlyGreen.com.
"There is such a great need in the community in the body of Christ and we wanted people to be able to walk in inside or outside, wherever we at, but step into the ministry and not be scrutinized or feel like they may not qualify or they’re not good enough," Green shares about the no-judgement attitude of her volunteers. "We’re serving and we’re not just serving one culture or people, we are serving multicultural people and there is no…there's really just no setbacks to it."