Community Corner
Join Christ Church Bronxville for Outreach Sunday!
It’s Sunday morning, April 6, and there’s more going on around the church than in. It sounds unusual, but that’s exactly what happens on “Outreach Sunday.” Parishioners of Christ Church Bronxville (CCB) will face both the elements and the glue gun to take on the needs of our community, from feeding the hungry to protecting the environment.
The day will start early as CCB teens and their chaperones head into New York City on a “Breakfast Run,” part of a program that helps feed the city’s hungry, clothe them and provide basic necessities. Then, as the morning helpers return back to Bronxville just in time for an abbreviated 10:00AM service, the larger CCB congregation will begin their work. Church members will take on a range of projects, including:
- Painting at Fessenden House, a transitional home for men offering help to those recovering from drug addiction or coping with mental health issues;
- Spring cleaning for the Bronx River Park Conservancy, collecting trash that’s
- accumulated around Bronxville Lake;
- Supplying food for the Interfaith Food Bank, a warehouse and distribution center for other organizations which feed the homeless;
- Cooking and preparing lunch for homeless men and women of the Midnight Run in Christ Church’s Taylor Hall
- Putting needle to thread as part of Project Linus, which provides homemade blankets to seriously ill or traumatized children.
Outreach Sunday is held twice a year, once in the fall and again in the spring. As Father Michael Bird explains, the tradition is significant to the life of the parish, “While this day highlights the organizations to which we provide aid,it also reminds us that the call to offer a caring hand lasts more than just one Sunday.”
All are welcome. Please join us on Sunday, April 6th at 10 AM!
Christ Church (Episcopal/Anglican) has served Bronxville and the rest of
lower Westchester for over a century, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church hosts four choirs and a bell choir, The Eliza Corwin Frost Child Center and the widely-known youth performance arts program, Young at Arts. For church service times and a list of activities, visit our website at www.ccbny.org or call (914) 337-3544.
