On Thursday, February 25 the Round Hill Community Church Youth Group, together with the Greenwich High School service group “Care for Healthcare,” hosted their first-ever virtual fundraising event to celebrate and support frontline healthcare workers in our town and across the country. The event featured guest speaker Sandra Lindsay, nurse, and director of patient services in the Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s ICU and the country’s first recipient of a Covid vaccine. Ms. Lindsay shared her experience on the frontlines of the Covid pandemic and also encouraged the audience not to be fearful of receiving the vaccine when it becomes their turn. The other speaker was Greenwich Medical Services (GEMS) paramedic Jim Anderson. In addition to the two speakers, the evening’s program included a special “thank you video” compiled by the students and their recent distribution of over 100 care packages to local healthcare workers who sacrificed so much to provide care to those who needed it during the most difficult, uncertain, and frightening times at the height of the Covid pandemic.
“We are so excited and extremely pleased to announce that because of everyone who participated in the “Care for Healthcare” night and gave so generously in support of the fundraiser, that we were able to surpass our initial fundraising goal by more than a whopping 7 times, raising a total of $3,600 for GEMS,” said Craig Packnick, Director of Youth Ministry at Round Hill Community Church. “As the town of Greenwich’s sole provider of emergency services, we are so pleased to be able to gift 100% of the donations raised that evening to GEMS so they can continue their mission of providing high-quality pre-hospital medical care to every Greenwich resident.”
For more information about Round Hill Community Church and its various services and programs that support the Church’s mission of being a force for good in the world, please visit www.roundhillcommunitychurch.org.
