Cleveland featured in Partnership Schools Blog!
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| The Ozannes!! |
As we are busily working on Archbishop Lyke and St. Thomas to renew the physical structures, Ozanne Construction has been a local leader for us. Here is the link to the story behind the man https://www.partnershipnyc.org/catholic-school-impact-one-cleveland-family/.
This Thursday Partnership Schools Cleveland will be featured on Sound of Ideas!
I met with Mike McIntyre last week outside at some picnic tables at the Stinchcomb Monument in the Rocky River Reservation. We talked for about and hour and a half and he said he definitely thought there was a story here! We are working out the details, but we are tentatively scheduled to be on Sound of Ideas (aired between 9AM-10AM) on this Thursday, August 6, with Rick Jackson. Please tune in and call in!! Of course, the show will also be available in the archives.
Two mindsets: Scarcity and Abundance
Yesterday's Gospel, commonly referred to as the "Feeding of the 5000," sends a strong message about how God works. The disciples tell Jesus to send everybody home, we can't possibly feed them we only have 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish! Jesus says matter of factly, bring me what you have. They did, and the rest is the story of God's abundance! Partnership Schools Cleveland is bringing to God what we have and are beginning ot reap God's abundance. 
The painting begins with twice as much paint as we could afford! Ozanne Construction takes over the project and showers us with generous donations of time and materials! We already experienced the abundance of God's help through raising $3.14M dollars in 4 months during a pandemic! What more do we need to see to believe. Today's reading has Peter asking Jesus to invite him to walk on the water. Jesus' reply is quite simple: "Come!" He does for few steps and then fear takes over and he begins to sink. The constant message of the Gospel is proclaimed to Peter: Do not fear! Just have faith! I am continually challenged by those words. I pray that someday I can rid my self of fear and just have faith. In the meantime, I am constantly reminded of God's abundance and thank God that he has so much patience with me.
What lessons are we learning?
School nurses, well lit and airy school buildings, school lunches are all lessons that were learned in 1918 from the pandemic that rocked the world then. A recent PBS News Hour segment looked back at the outcomes of the so-called Spanish Flu pandemic. What are we learning from the COVID-19 pandemic with regards to schools?
Certainly the universal need for connectivity is becoming more and more apparent. The importance of a strong sense of community, the need for families to have support, the increased need for after school programs and nutritional assistance as well as the central need for schools to educate are some of the ideas surfacing now. We are in the middle of this now, but the challenge is to find solutions for the problems that are being brought to light by the disease.
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| Children at home in 1918 |
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