via fox8cleveland: Volunteers and friends are helping familiar faces at a special gathering started with a prayer of thanksgiving this Easter Sunday. Festive music on an accordion filled the air at the St. Augustine Hunger Center in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Dozens of volunteers cooked and served a traditional Easter dinner that included sweet deserts. Hundreds […]
via Joy105: More than 50 years ago, people stood near a church entrance in St. Augustine to keep blacks from coming inside. The civil rights movement was underway, and some staged protests by trying to gain entry into racially divided churches. Some houses of worship, including what is now called First United Methodist Church on […]
via News5: St. Augustine Church and Hunger Center is celebrating Easter by feeding those in need. The tradition started 45 years ago and has carried on ever since. Volunteers cook and prepare the meals and then personally serve them to visitors in the dining hall. Sister Corita Ambro says it’s always an emotional experience. “Holidays are lonely […]
