NewsClassifiedsYellow PagesToday's Ads
Snow showers 33°5 Day Forecast
Wednesday February 10, 2010
SEARCH: Site   Advanced Search
Home
Facebook Page
News
South QueensCentral QueensEastern QueensSoutheast QueensMid QueensNorthern QueensNortheast QueensWestern QueensQueenswide
Opinion
EditorialLetters to the Editor
Special Sections
Anniversary EditionPrime Times: 50 PlusBanking and FinanceCelebration Of QueensHealth & FitnessContestsSpring GuideBack-To-School/Fall Guide
Sports
Local Sports
Entertainment
qboroArts ListingCommunity CalendarI Have Often Walked
Q Gallery
Relay For Life
Business Directory
Business ProfilesQC Dining OutAdvertiser's Index
Our Newspaper
About UsSubscribe e-mailContact UsHow to AdvertiseMedia Kit
Home : News : News : Northern Queens
Sistas in the Hood giveaway
by Liz Rhoades, Managing Editor
11/19/2009
email this storyEmail to a friendpost a commentPost a Commentprinter friendlyPrinter-friendly
<B>Sistas in the Hood members outside PS. 20 in Flushing. The group will be distributing food for Thanksgiving on Saturday. The Rev. Sherrell Jordan, the founder, is second from left. </B>PHOTO BY ENITH HUGHLEY
Sistas in the Hood members outside PS. 20 in Flushing. The group will be distributing food for Thanksgiving on Saturday. The Rev. Sherrell Jordan, the founder, is second from left. PHOTO BY ENITH HUGHLEY
   Ten caring members from Flushing will be giving away turkeys and all the fixings for Thanksgiving to needy families on Saturday.
   Sistas in the Hood, organized by the Rev. Sherrell Jordan two years ago, will hold their giveaway from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside P.S. 20, 142-30 Barclay Ave. It’s first come, first serve and residents are urged to line up outside the main entrance.

   “We want to help low-income families,” Jordan said. “The stores have been generous and we should have 150 turkeys.”
   Money and food donations have been received from BJ’s, Pathmark, Target, the Station Road Civic Association, the 109th Precinct Community Council, the Isaac Sasson Fund, the Franklin Rehabilitation Nursing Center and Plak Smacker, which donated dental kits.
   Food contributions have included cranberry sauce, stuffing, macaroni and cheese mixes, yams and cake mixes.
   Aside from the annual turkey blow-out, as Jordan calls it, she has organized give- aways for baby goods, school supplies in the fall and holiday gift cards at Christmas. The Sistas meet monthly and is a support group for single mothers. Jordan is a single mother herself.
   This fall, the Sistas were able to give 300 backpacks filled with school supplies to area families. In December, they will be handing out $15 gift cards for use at Toys R Us.
   Jordan would like to be able to do more for the community, but is hampered by lack of money and an office. She would prefer to work out of a storefront or in donated space in a church, where she believes her group would be more visible.
   For more information on how you can contribute to the group, call Jordan at (347) 732-9314.
   In her spare time this year, Jordan wrote a biblical book titled “Who is She?” which will be published by Adonai Inc. next year. Her daughter Michaiah started kindergarten this fall.



©Queens Chronicle 2010

Reader Comments
 Submit your own comment!
Added: Thursday November 19, 2009 at 08:36 PM EST
Great Job Reverend Jordan!
I am blessed by your pure-hearted ministry in missions to single mothers, the needy and the poor. May God bless you and contintue to bless you to be a blessing and may those blessings be reciprocated through all the lives that you touch.
Be steadfast --- !
Rev. Phyllis Y. Bolden, Norwalk, Connecticut

email this storyEmail to a friendpost a commentPost a Commentprinter friendlyPrinter-friendlyTop
South Queens
BREAKING NEWS: Seminerio gets 6 yr. sentence for bribes

AEG wins bid to build an Aqueduct racino

Three-alarm fire leaves O.P. families displaced

PS 65 teacher and aide allegedly let kids fight
Central Queens
Cuomo to sue firm over eviction tactics

Mayor plans cuts for 20 FDNY units

Priest implicated in feds’ kid porn probe

BREAKING NEWS: Seminerio gets 6 yr. sentence for bribes
Eastern Queens
Meeks and Smith tied to ‘slush fund’

Hard-hitting tournament

Bill would hike workers’ pay

Resource center opens in Brooklyn to aid Haitians
Mid Queens
Mayor plans cuts for 20 FDNY units

C-Town settles suit by Labor Dept.

Bloomberg proposes big cuts in 2011 budget

Pi Time at Christ the King HS
Western Queens
BREAKING NEWS: Seminerio gets 6 yr. sentence for bribes

Power plant closes in Astoria

Corona slams plan to build school

Cuomo to sue firm over eviction tactics
Queenswide
Borough Board OK’s driveway regulations

Social Security loses a CD with personal info

Support Senate GOP plan to help New York recover

Will history’s lessons ever be learned?
SEARCH: Site   Advanced Search
NewsClassifiedsYellow PagesToday's Ads

Send us your community news, events, letters to the editor and other suggestions. Now, you can submit birth, wedding and engagement announcements online too!

Copyright © 1995 - 2010 All Rights Reserved.