Local Children Bring Joy to New Orleans
Group from BJBE bring “treasures” and good will to residents of New Orleans’ ninth and seventh wards.
Lessons of faith come in many forms and for 66 members of Deerfield’s Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim (BJBE), 25 of them children, it came in two New Orleans churches a few weeks ago. That is when a group from BJBE took its fourth annual trip to New Orleans. They went to help people in the ninth and seventh wards still struggling from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 take another step in rebuilding their lives. The group gathered 135 boxes of tools, books, toys and sporting goods to ship ahead of time and went themselves to join people in New Orleans for worship, fellowship and some hard work like painting and other tasks, according to Michael Goldberg of Deerfield. Goldberg was one of the people who helped Nancy Rooks …
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4:12 pm on Tuesday, May 1, 2012
My name is Pastor Bruce of ST.JOHN#5 FAITH CHURCH one of the churches they came to help in the 7th ward.Nancy Rook and Rabbi Brian was a great help to us and our community BJBE help in many ways not just with toys and super gifts like bikes and wonderful games.They spend some great quailty time with our kids the men play ball with the trouble youths and they put down the guns and knifes and hate … more ›