18 Dec 2024
✝️🎄🎁 Christmas Embrace 2024 has been such a gift to our SPCC community! So many students and staff and their families from our SPCC community donated more than 7 large boxes of toiletries and gifts for the Vinnies Christmas Appeal. Julian, a student from Year 11, expresses personally his experience of Christmas Embrace this year. “Giving holds immense importance in my life as it embodies empathy, connection, and it displays my faith. The Christmas Embrace was a way to acknowledge the value of others and to share the blessings I’ve received. It reminds me that even in challenging times, we have the capacity to brighten someone else’s day. Ultimately, giving enriches both the giver and the receiver, creating a ripple effect of positivity that makes the world a little kinder." Mr John Klumpp, the Year 11 Coordinator, describes his delight in seeing St Pauls students practising the Corporal Works of Mercy. “The Christmas Embrace provided a platform for the students to discuss giving to others and unite as a Year 11 form to organise workshop tasks to gather donations for the hampers. The number of students volunteering to help was pleasing. We thank the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Greystanes Catholic Community for this opportunity."
On behalf of Vinnies, we thank all the members in our community who donated to the Vinnies Christmas Appeal or volunteered to help with the operation of the initiative at SPCC. The presentation of the Christmas Hampers will bring hope and joy to the 60 families in the Greystanes Conference.