Dear Editor: I wish to take this opportunity to thank you and the Bright Christmas campaign for your generous donation to Visitation B.V.M. Church.
It will indeed be used to brighten Christmas for the parish’s children.
Many thanks and God bless you. May you have a wonderful Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year.
FATHER CLAUDIO ANTECINI
Red Hook
Dear Editor: This note is to thank you for the Bright Christmas grant. This allowed us to share with our community. We were able to give one needy family financial assistance and we also provided gifts to over 90 children. The balance will be spent on food, food, food. That is the most needed here in this neighborhood.
Many parents work long hours in low pay- ing jobs to support their families while paying astronomical amounts of rent and usually sharing apartments with one or two other fam- ilies to make ends meet. Other families are single-parent families, or children being raised by grandparents who also need help.
At the end of the day, please be assured that the grant you sent us was put to very good use here.
May God bless you for thinking of our pro- gram when making this decision, and may God also bless everyone who contributed to the Bright Christmas program.
Merry Christmas!
DENISE DOLLARD
Outreach Director St. Margaret Mary Chapel of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Astoria
Dear Editor: Thank you and please thank your readers for the generous gift from the Bright Christmas Fund.
Your generosity has already gone to good use brightening the hearts, eyes and spirits of the recipients. We began by supplying a wheelchair and needed medicine as well as gifts for a young girl afflicted with muscular dystrophy. While she cannot speak or walk on her own, the joy in her eyes spoke volumes.
The joy which the other recipients received brought a brightness into their lives and the lives of their families – thanks to your readers.
You were all remembered at the altar during Midnight Mass.
MSGR. JOSEPH NUGENT
Pastor, St. Paul and St. Agnes Brooklyn
Dear Editor: Greetings from Trinity Human Services Corporation!
On behalf of our executive director, Father Pedro DeOliveira, O.F.M. Conv., I would like to express our heartfelt appreciation for this Bright Christmas campaign grant.
Your grant helped us provide Christmas gifts for many children in our neighborhood. You helped our children experience a brighter and more joyful Christmas, with our Santa and in our community setting. This year we served over 350 families at our Christmas party. We hope that this time begins a grace-filled New Year for them.
Thank you again for your generous contribution to our Christmas event. We would not be able to do our ministry without wonderful people like you.
May God bless you abundantly with a Healthy, Happy and Holy New Year.
SISTER WOOHEE SOFIA LEE, S.F.M.A.
Deputy Executive Director Trinity Human Services, Williamsburg