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More than 120 people from Saint Paul’s Church, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, and the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club packed the Parish Hall at Saint Paul’s Church, Chestnut Hill to join in service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 16. Two projects provided food and school supplies to needy people around the world. Through the organization Stop Hunger Now volunteers packaged dehydrated, high-protein meals enough for 10,000 people in crisis in developing countries. In several weeks the organization will be able to tell exactly where the Saint Paul’s food packages were sent. A gong rang out in the parish hall each time packages for 1000 people were filled for shipping, until the 10th gong sounded and the morning’s work was done.
Staples Office Products donated $1000 toward Saint Paul’s Church Martin Luther King Jr. Day service that sent school kits to poor children who have no educational supplies in countries like Haiti and Zimbabwe. Saint Paul’s children and parents filled bags with scissors, paper, rulers and crayons, pencils and sharpeners. These were sent to the Sager Brown Depot in Baldwin, LA for shipment to parts of the world where children study in half-destroyed buildings, tents or open-air. The bags may be their only school resources. After the mornings work was done, the children sat to watch a film on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the struggle for Civil Rights in the United States.
