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Pinecrest Faculty and Staff Participate in Service Project
While on retreat, employees at local Catholic school make 600 sandwiches for poor
Pinecrest Academy faculty and staff participated in an on-campus retreat on Friday, February 12, 2016, which provided attendees an opportunity for reflection, rejuvenation, idea-sharing and service.
The retreat focused on Pinecrest’s educational philosophy of four pillars of Integral formation — intellectual, human, spiritual and apostolic. In completing the apostolic portion of the retreat, the faculty and staff made sandwiches for the poor. Being in the midst of Lent, all were afforded the opportunity to participate in both corporal and spiritual works of mercy, by affixing personal notes with spiritual messages to the future recipient of each sandwich.
The goal was to make 600 sandwiches, and Fr. David Steffy, Pinecrest President, had the honor of making the 600th sandwich. Nine boxes of sandwiches were delivered to a group of Pinecrest high school girls, who handed them out to women and children transitioning from homelessness through the Restoration Atlanta Ministry. This ministry collaborates with the City of Refuge in downtown Atlanta.