[Magdalen] pencils

[ME Michaud]

I love this annual project. There's just something about the
cooling nights and the lengthening shadows that makes me
want to buy school supplies. Pavlovian, I suppose, but it's
so much fun to outfit the kids.

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> For several years, while I was at St. Barnabas, the Diocese of E. TN
> participated in a backpack project in which you chose a grade level and
> stuffed a backpack for a boy or girl in that grade level. The backpacks
> were brought in on a specific Sunday and blessed, then dropped off at a
> central location from which they were distributed to children in need. We
> had near 100% participation in our little congregation, and it was such fun
> to go and pick out the supplies. I understand the project is no longer in
> existence. Pity, that.
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