Volunteers at North Catholic spend Black Friday serving others
CRANBERRY TWP — Instead of getting up early on Friday to hit the stores and score deep discounts on material items, 300 faithful Christians joined Bishop David Zubik at North Catholic High School to pack a meal for the disadvantaged.
The last of 10 Amen to Action food-packing events saw volunteers bopping along to loud and upbeat music as they worked as a well-oiled machine to create eight-serving zipper bags containing an oatmeal-and-dried-apple meal.
The completed bags from each table were then neatly packed into boxes, the stacks of boxes wrapped in plastic, and the stacks shipped to the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank for distribution to people in need.
Amen to Action volunteers have packed various meals at 10 churches of many denominations throughout the Pittsburgh region.
Michael Palcsey, principal at North Catholic, wiped sweat from under his hair net as he proclaimed the one millionth meal in the 2022 Amen to Action program was to be packed at his school on Friday.
Many North Catholic students stood at the tables, or “stations,” in gloves and hair nets, pouring measured scoops of oats, cinnamon, sugar and dried apples into the zip bags.
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