Standing in front of the altar where Hillcrest Baptist Church collected nearly $38,000 in its Birthday Gift to Jesus campaign are (from left) Rev. Jeff Dixon, Rosalind Dixon, Melody Collins and Scott Collins.By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

Hillcrest Baptist Church knows what it is like for a community to come to one’s aid.
The local church burned to the ground in 1998. Then in 2010 the deadly Yazoo tornado ripped through it, leaving a pile of rubble behind.
But the community arrived immediately to bring the church up from the destruction from both the fire and Mother Nature.
“People just reached out to this church tremendously,” said Pastor Jeff Dixon, who began to lead the church last August. “We owe a tremendous amount of thanks to the people around us. God has been so good to us.”
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