MeetingPoint to start service projects – beginning with Triune Mercy Center
July 27, 2015
GREENVILLE, SC – In its continuing effort to create a more “beloved community,” MeetingPoint will partner with Triune Mercy Center as they begin to pursue service projects in Greenville.
The first service opportunity will be Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. at Triune Mercy Center, 222 Rutherford Street, Greenville, when volunteers will be handing out healthy snacks to the needy in the downtown area.
“MeetingPoint is about sharing ideas and breaking down the barriers between us,” said Rabbi Marc Wilson, the group’s founder. “Compassionate service is one of our foundational pillars, and serving the needs of the community helps us directly address those barriers.”
People interested in signing up to volunteer with MeetingPoint can do so by emailing [email protected].
MeetingPoint is the outgrowth of the Year of Altruism and aims to create genuine interfaith opportunities by looking to the “trans-covenantal” nature of our endeavor, Wilson said.
The Year of Altruism started in 2013 to encourage and celebrate altruism in thought, speech and deed, focusing the community on fostering acts of kindness in its organizations and individuals, thus creating a better future, one life at a time, Wilson said. MeetingPoint was created to spread that message forward.
“This is about uniting Greenville using our commonalities – not our difference,” he said.
About MeetingPoint
MeetingPoint is a United Interfaith Community, drawing together people of goodwill in prayer, study, fellowship and compassionate service. MeetingPoint is a direct outgrowth of Greenville’s Year of Altruism (YOA), which has taken our community to new heights of compassion, civic awareness, and social action. Learn more at www.meetingpointsc.org.
