Jacob’s Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a program Sept. 12 at 2:30 p.m. to benefit Jospiephine Morris of Talladega. The Joyful Aires of Gadsden will be the featured group, but all groups, choirs and soloists are invited to participate.

The event will be called “Praise Your Way Through,” with a theme from Psalm 27: “For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; He will hide me in the shelter of His tabernacle and set me on a high rock.”

Morris lost her home in the early morning hours of June 30 when a driver lost control of his car, struck a power pole and then drove through the front of her house. The impact was great enough to knock the building off its foundation.

The driver was uninsured, and while Morris’s possessions were insured, the building itself was not.

“A company out of Birmingham donated the material and concrete for a new foundation, which is in now,” Morris said Thursday. “This program is going to help with the materials for the framing.”

Participants are asked donate “whatever’s on their heart,” she continued. “We just plan on getting together and praising God, because I know he has blessed more than just me.”

The program will be very special in another way, as well. “I volunteered at Hawkins Chapel (at the Alabama Institutes for Deaf and Blind) for 11 years, and I directed the choir for 10 of those years. Some of the kids that I worked with over the years that have graduated heard about and said they are planning to come, too. They want to just get back together and sing. I know some of them are in Anniston, and I think some are in Mobile, and I don’t know for sure who all will be able to make. But they do love to sing.”

“My cousins are coming from Gadsden, too,” she added.

James and Teresa Smoot of Jacobs Chapel are helping to organize the event, and “Rev. Hayes, the pastor, opened up the doors for us.”

For those who will not be able to make it Sept. 12 but still want to help can donate to a charitable fund established for Morris at First National Bank in Talladega. Also, Talladega County Extension Agent Wanda Juriaans is taking donations of or for new cabinetry and household furnishings.

For more information, please call Jacobs Chapel at 256-362-6850. The church is located at 308 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, across from the B.N. Mabra Center.