BIRMINGHAM, Ala, (WIAT)- CBS 42's Chris Womack attended a Christmas morning church service at Friendship Baptist Church of Collegeville, where people were not only celebrating the holiday, but the news from the EPA that their community is one of three that's getting help from Superfund. as well.

"I think I shed a few little tears after I heard it.  [It] made me feel like somebody cares about the people in the community, finally," says Pastor Lorenza Huggins.

Superfund is a program that allows the EPA to either compell sites to clean-up potential hazardous leaks from their facility or do it themselves and charge the responsible parties.  The news comes with mixed reactions, one part joy, one part confusion.  "It's been 20 some odd years and we're finally getting to the point where Superfund comes in here.  You have to think, 'What was going on prior to this?'" says Pastor Huggins.

Friendship Baptist isn't changing it's plans to relocate following the news.  They will move to a new location as soon as they find a place to go from their current spot across the street from the Hudson K-8 School.  The pastor believes the future will look much brighter for the kids that walk those halls.

"I think for generations to come, it's not too little too late; but for some of us that's been out here breathing the air, and walking on the soil, and ingesting what's in the air, it could be too little too late."