Recently, the Garden City Community Church and Freeport’s First Presbyterian Church joined forces to stage a pair of Will Sing for Food concerts whose proceeds were used to help fund the Long Island Council of Churches’ food pantries. The final take for both shows was close to $5,600, a noble yet small amount when you consider that according to Share Our Strength, a national organization working to end childhood hunger in America, 1 out of 5, or 16 million children, struggle with hunger. It’s a fact that’s easy to lose sight of now that Thanksgiving and the holidays are fading in our collective rear view mirror. If there is a silver lining to be cognizant of it is the fact that with not only these recent shows held by local clergy, but with many food drives, more and more younger people are getting involved in trying to help the less fortunate. It’s this kind of activism from the younger set that fuels the hope that those aforementioned numbers someday start to take on a downward trend.
—Dave Gil de Rubio
