Community Newburgh Ministry
The Newburgh Ministry is a community center/hospitality house in the east end of the city of Newburgh. In 1983, the Newburgh Ministry was founded by three communities of Roman Catholic sisters. These communities and their members are still active as staff, board members and donors. The goal of the founding group of people was to approach working with people in poverty differently. Rather than trying to fix the individuals and systems that they, as helpers, had identified as having gone awry, they listened to people living and working in the neighborhood and to their understanding of the problem. Then they worked together with people to find solutions to the problems that were adequate for the people concerned. For the first decades there were few paid staff.
Today they continue the work begun in 1983 with the same vision. They continue to listen and respond to the needs of the people in the east end of Newburgh. They respond in light of the call of the Law, the Prophets and the Gospels.
For more information about the Newburgh Ministry, please visit their website at http://www.newburghministry.org/
On April 11th, Jim McElhinney, Executive Director of The Newburgh Ministry, visited Redeemer. His visits are part of the longstanding relationship between the Newburgh Ministry and Redeemer, and provide a wonderful way to hear the news about the ongoing efforts and tremendous work of this important ministry. On-site volunteers are always welcomed, and needed, but Jim shared with us other ways that we can help.
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September 11th changed the lives of many in N.Y.S., the Congregation of Redeemer Ev. Lutheran Church of New Paltz being one of them. Just 90 miles from NYC, Redeemer helped with clean-up of 9/11 by making sandwiches for the Ground Zero volunteers.
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