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The Momentum Project Honors Community Churches
The Momentum Project, an affiliate of Village
Care of New York, has honored nine community churches in New York City for their dedicated, long-time
support of the needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS.
The Momentum Project, which began over 23
years ago as a volunteer organization dedicated to feeding disenfranchised New
Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, is one of New York City’s largest AIDS
organizations, providing hot meals, pantry bags and a wide array of
life-sustaining support services at nine locations in Manhattan, Bronx, Queens
and Brooklyn.
All of the sites are located in
community churches, which have offered their facilities as a haven for those in
need served by The Momentum Project.
“Today we honor and thank our distinguished
community churches for their continued generous support,” said Jose Belizario,
administrator for The Momentum Project.
Belizario described these churches as
“ideal settings” for program sites because of their established links with their
communities as well as the trust that they have earned.
At
the luncheon honoring the churches, Belizario told the representatives, “We look
forward to your continued support and dedication in what is truly a labor of
love as we sustain health and foster hope for
New York City’s most vulnerable citizens.”
The event was
held at Rivington House, a skilled nursing facility for persons living with
HIV/AIDS, which, along with The Momentum Project, is part of Village Care’s
comprehensive Network of AIDS Services.
Churches honored in Manhattan were Holy
Trinity
Lutheran
Church, Middle Collegiate Church, St.
Paul the Apostle
Church
, St. Cecilia’s Church, Saint Peter's Lutheran
Church,
which was The Momentum Project’s first site over 20 years ago.
Other churches honored were Trinity
Baptist
Church and Church of the Immaculate
Conception in the Bronx, St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Queens and St. John's
Lutheran
Church in Brooklyn.
Pictured at the luncheon (front row left to right) are Johnny Tounstell; Dorothy
Patrick and Dorothy Goldman. Pictured
(back row left to right) are Rev. Jonathan Priest, St. John’s Lutheran
Church;
Earl; Jose Belizario, administrator of The Momentum Project; Jeannie; Augustus Smith;
Rev. Naomi Tyler-Lloyd, Trinity Baptist
Church; Rev. Dr. Tom Dorsey; Emma
DeVito, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Village Care of
New York; and Rev. James Gardiner, Friars
of the Atonement and board member of Village Care of New York.
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