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Prayer Service for Haiti Planned

Release Date:
February 22, 2010
Contact:
Paula Witherell,
716-926-8792 or 716-472-1830 (cell)

HAMBURG, N.Y. --A prayer service for Haitians as they struggle in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck the country in January will be held at 4 p.m. Feb. 24 in Hilbert College’s West Herr Atrium in Paczesny Hall.

Hosted by the Hilbert Campus Ministry Club, the prayer service will include prayers, readings and selected songs. Hilbert students, faculty and staff are expected to be in attendance.
 
For more information, contact Barbara Bonanno, director of campus ministry and mission integration, at 926-8924 or e-mail bonanno@hilbert.edu.
 

Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. Hilbert’s personal approach to learning combines liberal arts with an outstanding professionally-focused education that’s taught by professors who bring a depth of real-world experience to the classroom. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities.