The spirit of giving permeates all of the work New Song Urban Ministries does in Sandtown. The Michael Group has been partnering with New Song Urban Ministries for the past several years. Our first project with New Song was Gerry’s Goods back in 2008. Gerry’s is a corner store/cafe owned by Gerry Palmer in partnership with New Song Urban Ministries. To celebrate it’s 2nd Anniversary, Gerry’s is donating over 150 snacks to the students at a local school.
Our current project with New Song is the construction of New Song Square. This exciting project includes a complete rehabilitation of an existing structure to include teacher’s offices, lounge and conference room. An addition will be constructed which will provide a new dance studio, art studio, preschool and kindergarten as well as classrooms for first through fourth grade. The new school will be connected to the existing school by a bridge that spans over Presstman Street.
To celebrate the holidays, the Michael Group donated and delivered over 150 cups of hot chocolate and bags of chocolate chip cookies to the students and New Song Academy.
Together with staff from Gerry’s Goods and New Song Urban Ministries, the Michael Group went classroom to classroom handing out treats from Gerry’s.
The kids loved every minute of it! (So did we!)
We’re looking forward to continuing our work with New Song in 2011! We’ll keep you updated on our construction progress as New Song Square gets started.
