Serving our Senior Citizens

 

Serving our Senior Citizens:

 

The senior citizen is the backbone of our community and it is from them that we gain our strength in character as a union throughout the world.  We will find within this group of people, a lot of knowledge, wisdom understanding through experience and education. It is a fact that through the process of life and aging, most people grow to care more about humanity as a whole and find a God of their understanding that they serve.  Like a child should be born innocent and it is the journey of humankind, to once again try to become righteous and be in service to the God of their understanding.  And often this is done through one's community work.

 

But the reality is that many of our senior citizens are barley surviving in the Southside Redevelopment Area.  Most are living on a fixed incomes or food stamps that barely allows them to make all their bills and eat properly.  Many of senior citizens find themselves in really lonely situations, without anyone to socialize with.  Many of our senior citizens are without structure and only want to do some meaningful volunteerism.  Many of our senior citizens are huge resources of information waiting to be tapped for knowledge.  And some are just doing fine in retirement and just want to give back to our community.  Whatever it is, if it is good, our senior citizens deserve it and more.  So we set aside Sunday as "Weekly 50+ Senior Citizen Recreational Spot," whereby we are open all day to address senior citizen issues, offer recreational activities, food  and other services.