2024 Hometown HEROES Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS June/July 2024 Page 9 Both Julie and Barry King, her husband of 23 years, have long served on the Ministry Team for the Harvest of Talents for World Hunger. Neal has served with Julie and Barry on the Harvest of Talents for World Hunger Ministry Team for many years and said, “I am a key witness to their amazing creativity.” Neal has seen the King’s creativity “evidenced by the work of their hands and by their endeavors to problem-solve, their energy in giving what it takes to get the job done and ideas as they worked hours on end to help events and projects come to fruition.” As Neal said the Kings “truly believe they are blessed to be a Blessing. Their hearts for the hungry compel them to use their myriads of talents to help raise funds to alleviate hunger in Jesus’ name. Because they work so well as a couple, complementing each other’s strengths, they are such a valued addition to ministry.” It is Julie’s leadership that Neal said helped bring forth the Junior Harvest Team. Neal said, “She and Barry have long provided artistic expertise in helping display hundreds of handcrafted items for the popular Harvest Day live auction and have made lots of unique and delightful repurposed articles that are sought after by Harvest supporters every year. They can make such beautiful items out of discarded, unrelated pieces, often reminiscent of beauty from ashes.” But it’s in the way they encourage, support, and uplift others that Neal particularly admires. As the Kings make “beauty from ashes,” they have turned a broken sideboard into a high back bench and taken an old oscillating fan and made it into a lamp. Coffee pots have been turned into bird feeders or lamps. Barry and Julie once took a headboard and made it into a bench. They have also used old suitcases to
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