Hapeville School Students Collect Food For Hungry

Published: December 23, 2004

HAPEVILLE—St. John the Evangelist School held a party to feed the hungry…and everyone came to help. The Nov. 16 Home and School meeting at the school was focused on collecting food for those in need in the community.

Families donated canned foods for the St. John food pantry and supplies to make lunches for the guests at My Sister’s House (of Atlanta Union Missions) and the Women’s Christian Center.

The families in attendance assembled sandwiches, and the children decorated each of the paper lunch bags that held the sandwiches. So many children and parents came to help that every available surface in the cafeteria was taken for assembling and decorating special lunch packages for the hungry.

The “loving hands” of the families prepared more than 1,100 sandwiches, gathered into brightly colored bags.

After the business meeting, the families gathered for a prayer service led by school principal Karen Vogtner. Everyone then processed outside by battery-powered candlelight, singing songs of praise to celebrate the lighting of the evergreen tree in front of the school.