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Moon Volunteers Organize Outreach Event at Holy Family Institute

Volunteers will spend time working with children served by the Emsworth nonprofit.

Members of the Moon Township-based Project Genesis service group today will volunteer time at the Holy Family Institute in Emsworth. More than 60 volunteers, including members of St. Philips Church in Moon Township and Crossroads Church in North Fayette, will perform outreach today at the institute, a nonprofit that provides services to disadvantaged families and children in the Pittsburgh region.  Project Genesis member Rider Davidson, of Moon Township, said the group has worked with the Holy Family Institute for five years, and today will host its second-annual Easter celebration for members of the organization.  "It's just about us going down there, and taking some time to talk to the kids," Davidson said. "You have a lot of kids who …

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Impact Christian Church Hosts 'Operation Hope' Dinner

A Moon Township church hopes to make the Christmas season brighter for local families in need.

Moon Township's Impact Christian Church will bring Christmas a few weeks early to members of the community in need at its first "Operation Hope" dinner on Saturday. "We'll have turkey, ham, stuffing, pie, sort of everything you would have for a Thanksgiving dinner," said student ministry coordinator Zach Shidemantle.  Church volunteers have spent recent weeks reaching out to area food pantries, clinics and other organizations to spread the word of the event.  Shidemantle said last Christmas season, the church worked with the nonprofit Light of Life, sponsoring a clinic for the homeless in downtown Pittsburgh. This year, the church wanted to make it's mark closer to home, he said. "There are people in Moon struggling to put a meal together…

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Tweet #PatchRebuilds to Help Hurricane Sandy Survivors

Patch will make a $1 donation to AmeriCares for every tweet with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds.

You can help rebuild communities that were hit by Hurricane Sandy by donating cans of food, volunteering for cleanup efforts—or simply sending a tweet. Patch is excited to announce our new effort to help support devastated communities after the storm. For every tweet sent with the hashtag #PatchRebuilds, we will donate $1 to the AmeriCares Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund, up to $125,000. Your contribution will go toward medical and humanitarian aid, grants and programs to help Sandy survivors. You can simply tweet the hashtag #PatchRebuilds, or go to our Patch Rebuilds website, rebuilds.patch.com/moon, and tweet directly from the site. A customized tweet that starts “My heart belongs to…” is created from the Patch Rebuilds website, …

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