Students Prepare Over 400 Lunches for TASK
Posted on 01/31/2018
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." 
Mother Theresa
On Tuesday, January 30, forty Bishop Ahr High School students plus Sister Cynthia, Mr. John Roche, Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Mr. Harry Ziegler, Ms. Liz Savner, Mrs. Karen Wilton, Ms. Grace Alexander, Mrs. Lynne Braine, Mrs. Dorothy Machovic, Mr. John Tocci, Mrs. Diane Fucci, and Father Keith Cervine joined together to prepare and bag over 400 lunches for the CSAC "CHANGE" the World Project! Into each bag of lunch was put a sandwich, a napkin, 2 snack items and a bottle of water and lots of love.

Freshmen in Mr. Matt Roche's Religion class and Mr. John Roche's Western Civilization class decorated and wrote notes on each bag. Then on Wednesday, January 31, the lunches were delivered to the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen by the BGAHS maintenance staff.

Before beginning the project, the group prayed asking God's blessings on those who would receive the lunch bags and also on us as we made the sandwiches. On this feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of the high school, our prayer ended with a resounding "St. Thomas Aquinas pray for us!"
  
All of the bread, the snacks, water, peanut butter and jelly, bags, and napkins were purchased with money collected from the students on a Dress Down day for the poor. Alumnus Edward Van Eckert '78 donated peanut butter and jelly for the project. This was once again a total BGAHS community project; everyone helped from the maintenance staff to faculty to staff to students to alumni and alumni parents! Thank you to all who helped our "Change" the world project to provide lunches for the poor.
 
The CSAC "Change" the world project was one small action that helped us here at Bishop Ahr High School to follow Pope Francis's call to go out of our way and help "change" the life of the poor.