Christ Church Greenwich To Hold Candlelight Vigil For Ukraine

GREENWICH, CT — Christ Church Greenwich will hold a community-wide candlelight vigil for Ukraine on Sunday, March 20 at 5 p.m.

"No doubt we have all been horrified by the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. Many people are trying to understand what they can do to help families fleeing the violence and destruction, and many people are having a difficult time coming to terms with how this can happen," the church said in a news release. "It is hard to watch as it unfold on the news. The power of prayer helps us as well as the people we are praying for. It is soothing, meditative, and hopeful."

Along with being in-person at the church, the event will be live streamed here. All are invited to attend — masks are optional.

"Whenever innocents are suffering around the world, we must rally together and channel the resources of the world and encourage people of good will everywhere to do the right thing," said the Rev. Marek Zabriskie, Rector of Christ Church Greenwich, in a news release. "We invite you to join us and pray in solidarity with the good people of Ukraine and with the people of Greenwich, our nation and our world. Prayer facilitates God's transforming goodness in the world."

Christ Church Greenwich is also organizing an event to provide 36,000-plus packages of nutritional meals for Ukrainian refugees on the border of Poland.

All ages are welcome to help during the "packathon" on March 26 at 10 a.m. in the Christ Church Parish Hall, located at 254 E. Putnam Ave. in Greenwich.

In coordination with the Ukrainian Cultural Center in New Jersey, these meals will be transported to the docks and packed into a container and loaded onto a ship headed to Gdansk, Poland. BOC International will handle the transportation free of charge, Christ Church Greenwich said in a news release. BOC International has already shipped nine containers of meals to Poland.

The total cost for the supplies and food for the packathon is $12,600.Christ Church Greenwich is asking the community to donate whatever they can to help underwrite these expenses.

Donations can be made directly to the Packathon by going to the church's website or Text To Give 73256 and enter Ccgctgive.