As the impact of Covid-19 starts to slow down, we are returniang to church at a slow pace. Yet since the start of the pandemic, we at St. Paul’s in Greenfield Park have not stopped working in the community. And although we were not able to gather in person to do what was needed, we found ways to continue our outreach;
• keeping our ladies in the community busy at home by knitting articles for schools in our area, for our Christmas families, for men’s and women’s shelters and for the homeless
• making frozen food for seniors and supplying approximately 400 sandwiches every Wednesday for Bread and Beyond, who in turn give them to seven shelters in Montreal,
• continuing the breakfast program for our local school,
• making blankets for cancer patients at the Charles Lemoyne hospital in Greenfield Park,
• collecting for our Christmas families as well as those in local shelters.
We have been able to do all of this while not being able to meet in person but with a LOT of help from our community.
In fact, the ladies and men of the Greenfield Park United church have all worked together to help with the sandwiches, knitting and blanket making. We have had strangers helping us make food for our frozen meals for the seniors, gather gifts for our Angel tree for our Christmas families, purchasing items for the homeless, offering to pick up and deliver food to the seniors, baking for our on line bake sale and much more.
It is amazing what a community can do when it comes together not just as a church but as people of God. The Lord wants us to gather in his name and to help those in need and that is what our community on the South Shore of Montreal is trying to do.
Please take a moment, look around and see what you can do in God’s name. A pair of hands can do a bit but many hands can accomplish a lot.
