18 May

The Bishop Maginn Wish List Is Up

by Jon Katz

Galatians 2:10 “Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.”  – Jesus Christ.

If you help the poor  you are lending to the Lord – and he will repay you.” Proverbs, 14:17

I am not a Christian, nor do I worship Jesus as the son of God. I do accept and embrace him as an inspiration and a spiritual leader for me. I wish more influential Christians felt the same way.

Today, there is  and wonderfully easy and efficient way to help the poor, just as those of us with any spiritual or religious connections have so often been asked to do. The Bishop Maginn High School is poor also, mostly because they taken in so many children who can’t afford to pay their tuition.

They try to accommodate everybody. They urgently need help in setting up an arts and music program, they have some extraordinarily gifted and motivated students there.

So we’ve set up an Amazon Wish List for Bishop Maginn High School, the fourth non-profit gift list I’ve worked on. All have been successful. This is the future, the best way to donate. People get exactly what you want them to get when you want them to gee

Please go take a look, there some very inexpensive things to buy. Make sure you’ve sent it to the right address: 75 Park Street, Albany, N.Y., 12202, 518 463 3347.

The Bishop Maginn High School In Albany, N.Y., home and refuge to some of the neediest and poorest and traumatized children on the earth, has put up one of the most effective and popular fund-raising tools in history: The Bishop Maginn Amazon Wish List.

Photo by Paw Lway Shee (sold for $50)

They need everything – pencils, paper, paint, markers. The Amazon Wish List is shockingly simple. The school will list the things they need, people can buy them with a click and ship them directly to the school. The address is on the Wish List, but if you need it, it’s Bishop Maginn High School, 75 Park  Avenue, Albany, N.Y., 12202, 518 463-2247.

The materials you bought – most are quite inexpensive – go straight to the school and it’s teachers, who have been buying supplies out of their own pockets. No middlemen here.  The school is a non-profit institution, all gifts to them are tax-deductible. You can send a check to the school instead of a Wish List gift, or  you can send donations to me, Paypal, [email protected] or P.O. Box 205, Cambridge,N.Y., 12816.

On Monday the school will get the full Army Of Good treatment. That means a lot of boxes are coming their way.

I will be meeting students at the school, I’m eager for the gift of being able to help them.  They are enthusiastic and hard-working and already great patriots of our country. They appreciate a good education as much as any young people I have known.

This is truly the Lord’s work, whatever one’s faith, and the hope for humanity, the earth’s most selfish and narcissistic species.

Check out the new Wish List here. It will be updated continuously.

 

1 Comments

  1. Galatians is a letter Paul wrote to churches in Galatia who are in crisis because ‘false teachers’ were trying to turn them from the gospel of Christ. Verse 2:10 is part of Paul’s recollection that ‘the church leaders in Jerusalem endorsed Paul’s mission to the Gentiles provided that he be mindful of the poor’ . Paul’s letter, Jesus’ s message.

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