Amen to Motion piles up one million meals

By jimadmin On Nov 27, 2021

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Amen to Action piles up a million meals

Updated: 10:53 a.m. EST November 27, 2021

While many went to stores on Black Friday looking for deals, a dedicated team of volunteers settled down at Sacred Heart Church in Pittsburgh to help the last of 1 million meals they have prepared over the past three weekends, to give the finishing touches. The group, anchored by the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, leads the Amen to Action initiative, which is now in its fifth year. As of 2017, the team of more than 3,000 members of interdenominational parishes from across southwest Pennsylvania spent the day after Thanksgiving on the monumental task of packaging a million long-life meals for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. That year the effort had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and make some changes to the timeline and venue that the volunteers and staff were used to. The entire group traditionally manned the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to perform such a task. “This year we decided to do this in ten different geographic areas in southwestern Pennsylvania,” said Bishop David Zubik of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. “That’s the icing on the cake.” Behind Zubik, hundreds of volunteers worked hard to package nearly 6,000 meals at the Sacred Heart Activity Center in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Friday’s event was the culmination of nine separate meetings on the first three Saturdays of the month, according to the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation. Zubik says the campaign he co-started with Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation founder Reid Carpenter shows that there is love in people’s hearts. “It’s one of those other signs of how great the people of southwest Pennsylvania are in our faith (and) how much we really want to show it in action,” said Zubik.

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As of 2017, the team of more than 3,000 members of interdenominational parishes from across southwest Pennsylvania has spent the day after Thanksgiving participating in the monumental task of packaging a million long-life meals for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. That year the effort had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and make some changes to the timeline and venue that the volunteers and staff were used to. The entire group traditionally manned the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to perform such a task.

“This year we decided to do this in ten different geographic areas in southwestern Pennsylvania,” said Bishop David Zubik of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. “That’s the icing on the cake.”

Behind Zubik, hundreds of volunteers worked hard to package nearly 6,000 meals at the Sacred Heart Activity Center in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Friday’s event was a culmination of nine separate meetings on the first three Saturdays of the month, according to the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation.

Zubik says the campaign he launched with Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation founder Reid Carpenter shows that there is love in people’s hearts. “It’s one of those other signs of how great the people of southwest Pennsylvania are in our faith (and) how much we really want to show it in action,” said Zubik.