Share The Blessings Organization Meeting for Volunteers - March 2021

Thanks to our volunteers who were able to join us for our first quarter 2021 organization meeting. We shared lots of information for our new members. One key was a recent organization change to help our committee chairs be more effective - the creation of liaisons for each committee. 

Please see these changes in our organization model depicted here. If you are interested in volunteering for any of the committees, even serving as committee chair if the role is open(TBD depicted in the organization model), please contact the appropriate liaison. Descriptions of the volunteer roles available can be found here. If you don't see a description for a committee of interest, please use our new liaison contact page to contact a liaison to volunteer for a committee. Again thanks for those that were able to attend and for others interested in volunteering please watch for our next organization meeting which will take place in the 2nd quarter! 

Our Basic Goals

 Each year Share the Blessings strives to achieve goals in basic humanitarian areas of

 --- Clean Water - at least 2 clean water wells a year

--- Education - support child education

 We achieve the goals via blessings and a commitment to help those in need.

 If you too seek to assist those in need, please let us know how !

thanks & God Bless!

Education Spotlight

That’s one Heckawalk! Hiking 3,000 miles for education and wells in Uganda

By: Jay Carney

I have conducted many “Runs for Uganda” over the years to raise money for STB’s Uganda education program. But what Max Feiler is doing this year dwarfs anything I have ever undertaken. Inspired by the thousands of East African pilgrims who walk for weeks to Uganda Martyrs Day, Max is undertaking a 14-month, 3,000-mile walk-across-the-USA on help benefit STB and the Ugandans who touched his life as a 2017 summer intern with Fr. Joseph Kakooza.

A month after graduating from Duke Divinity School, Max embarked on his journey in June 2019 by swimming out into Boston Harbor, symbolizing his desire to begin his pilgrimage with a ritual cleansing. In his first three months, he has walked through cities, suburbs, and along the Appalachian Trail. In Maryland, he will pick up the newly-finished American Discovery Trail and take it all the way out to California. “I have tried to come with no expectations,” Max says. “I know I am walking from Boston to San Francisco. I am just trying to play it by ear with as much fun and piety as I can.” He carries his few belongings on his back and sleeps most nights in a hammock or on the ground. Despite the occasional “conversation” with local police, he has mostly encountered hospitality, warmth, and generosity from fellow hikers and passersby. He spends his days listening to audio books, reading Scripture, and just being quiet, locating himself in a pilgrimage tradition with deep roots in Christian history. “I am using my body to embody the faith,” he says.

As for the name “heckawalk”? According to Max, “hecka” is the kindergarten way of saying “helluva” in northern California, and Max “wanted to homage that I am from California.” (I might add that a 3,000-mile hike is surely worthy of the label!) Max’s goal is to raise $25,000 for Share the Blessings. He chose to work with STB given the organization’s successful track record of building wells and supporting education in Uganda. He plans to dedicate one-third of his funds to building two water boreholes in Uganda; one-third will support school scholarships; and one-third will expand access to St. Jude Kasana’s lunch program. After he finishes his walk, he will spend a year living in Uganda.

If you’re interested in contributing to Max Feiler’s benefit walk, please check out his Gofundme site.  Omukama abeere naawe – May God bless you, Max!  

Great News for Clean Water and how you can help!