Loving Couple Continues to Bring Christmas to Ford Heights Kids

Tim and Sharon Thomas help make Christmas happen for students at Medgar Evers School in Ford Heights.

They sat with their hands folded at the desks. A big cart rolling down the hallways was filled with green & red stockings. The students looked out the doorways. Christmas had come for the students at Medgar Evers School. For the past eight years, Tim & Sharon Thomas of Lansing, have provided stockings for every student at Medgar Evers. That's almost 300 stockings. Their ministry, City Limits Ministries, has been around for 23 years, serving the urban areas. "We serve in impoverished communities," said Sharon. "We look forward to this every year." This year their 9-year-old granddaughter Ellie Thomas came from her hometown in Iowa to help them. "This is fun," says Ellie as she finds a green stocking for a first-grade boy. "I'm having a good…

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