Thanksgiving Outreach

Each year we ask our senior class to help out Upper Room's Mercy House Thanksgiving food distribution. Our seniors will work from 10:30am until 3pm unloading trucks and filling over 2,0000 bags of groceries for the less fortunate. It's a chance for them to "give back" to their community and learn about caring for and giving to others in their time of need.

This year is even more significant in the wake of Hurricane Sandy! Many here on Long Island remain without power or even find themselves homeless. Upper Room's Mercy House is a place where folks can come and receive food, advice and prayer. Each person goes home with a Turkey and 4 bags of groceries!

The distribution will start tomorrow and continue on Sunday. On Thanksgiving Day many of the students will come back as we prepare and deliver over 300 complete hot Thanksgiving dinners to shut-ins throughout the Long Island area. It is especially moving and impacting for our 19 International Students as many of them never saw anything like this in their country! We believe that part of being thankful is reaching out to those in need and knowing that "there but for the grace of God go I"!

Blessings!
Pastor Ed