KATONAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TO HOST HANDBELL BENEFIT CONCERT ON MARCH 22

MONEY RAISED WILL GO TO HELP FEED HUNGRY
CHILDREN THROUGH BACKPACK SNACK ATTACK 

Saturday, March 22, 2014, 4 P.M.,
Open To All

KATONAH,
N.Y., March 11, 2014 – Six choirs from New York and New Jersey will gather at the
First Presbyterian Church of Katonah for the 5th Annual Hudson Valley
Young Ringers Handbell Festival on March 22, culminating in a Benefit
Concert at 4:00 p.m. in the church's new Fellowship Hall.

Under
the direction of Carol Roman from the Warwick Reformed Church, young ringers from
fourth grade through high school from congregations in Athens, Katonah, Pearl
River, Pleasantville and Warwick, N.Y. and Sparta, N.J. will play a selection
of pieces, including Campana Sonos and Love Will Find a Way.

Admission
is free, but a free-will offering will be collected to support the concert’s
benefit recipient, Backpack Snack Attack, which feeds the public school
children of Warwick Township. The volunteer-run, non-profit organization
is an outreach program of the Warwick Reformed Church in Warwick, N.Y.
that began in 2009. BSA provides food on weekends and in the summer to more than
300 hungry children within the Florida, Greenwood Lake, Pine Island and Warwick
School Districts. A group of volunteers fills backpacks each week with 13-14
food items per child. They then deliver this food to the schools, where each
child receives a backpack to take home.

This
is the second year that Pleasantville’s Emanuel Lutheran Church handbell choir
will be attending the Young Ringers Festival. Emanuel’s director Eiko Cornelius
said that the organizers wanted the offering to go to someone in need, and she
thinks that the youth in the choirs could relate to a program like Backpack
Snack Attack.

Eileen
Laurence, Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church of Katonah,
organized the Festival. The church is located at 31 Bedford Road, Katonah, NY
10536. For more information, please contact the church at 914-232-4568.

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