Thrive for Life Welcomes New Faith Community Partners
As we enter the season of thanksgiving and gratitude, Thrive For Life was happy to welcome two new parishes to our family of faith community partners. On October 17 and 21, Fr. Zach and members of our community visited the churches of St. Anne in Garden City, New York and Our Lady of the Snows in Floral Park, New York to celebrate the Eucharist. During his homilies and after Mass, Fr. Zach spoke about our important work to transform lives behind and beyond the prison walls, including our plans to expand our spiritual retreat programming for families affected by incarceration. Our team also had the opportunity to chat with parishioners about the ways to support our work, such as through spiritual mentoring and organizing care package supply drives for our retreat participants behind the walls.
Reflecting on our many blessings, Fr. Zach made a point to emphasize that our faith community partners constitute a bedrock of our ministries that help us amplify the awareness of issues concerning incarceration and our responsibility to care for those living through the difficult challenges of life behind and beyond the walls. In particular, he thanked Fr. Kevin at Our Lady of the Snows and Deacon Robert McCarthy for their warm hospitality and commitment to the cause.
Please see below some pictures from our journey to these wonderful houses of worship!
