Friends,
The Outreach Center, in partnership with the Suffolk Y JCC, hosted a really wonderful MLK “Day of Service” on Monday in the Parish Hall. Attending and working the event were the OLMM Round Table, the Islamic Mosque of Wyandanch, and the UJA Federation of New York. Students from our Religious Education Program, the Wyandanch High School, Copiague High School, Half Hollow Hills East, and West, students from UJA, and St John the Baptist DHS High School got together and performed various tasks; some created birthday party packages for children in need, others made beaded inspirational bracelets for our food pantry clients, while others helped sort 76 crates of food. The spirit and enthusiasm of this diverse group of 150 students, all working together for a great cause in honor of this important day, was quite impressive and truly heartwarming. The Day of Service ended at the Suffolk Y JCC in Commack with an interfaith MLK service sponsored by the JCC, and coordinated by Abraham’s Table of Long Island; Paule Pachter, CEO of Long Island Cares, was the keynote speaker on the theme of “sharing our bread with the hungry,” and the Thea Bowman choir performed gospel music.
Our Noelle and the student volunteers are in the middle of this two minute news clip!
All good! Enjoy the cold, no polar bear plunge this week!
