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title: "Helping Birmingham’s Homeless Women and Children"
date: 2022-04-26
author: "Laurie Stroud"
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# Helping Birmingham’s Homeless Women and Children

**Church Leaders**

Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church (OLS) parishioners recently volunteered to prepare and serve dinner to dozens of homeless guests at First Light Shelter in downtown Birmingham. OLS works with the shelter about 14 days each year, coordinated by Leslie Bentley. First Light offers the only emergency shelter accepting homeless women and families in the area, [www.firstlightshelter.org](http://www.firstlightshelter.org). †

[![Church Leaders OLS First Shelter Group Photo](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Church-Leaders-OLS-First-Shelter-Group-Photo-300x225.jpg "Church Leaders OLS First Shelter Group Photo")](https://birminghamchristian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Church-Leaders-OLS-First-Shelter-Group-Photo-scaled.jpg)Leslie Bentley (left) leads the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church team delivering and serving home cooked meals to guests at First Light Shelter in Birmingham.