Celebrating MLK Day with a “A Day On, Not a Day Off” National Service Initiative” event
Parents don’t have to worry about entertaining their children all day during the MLK holiday, thanks to the staff and volunteers at First Presbyterian Church of Maumee (FPC), 200 E. Broadway Street in Maumee. Anyone, members and non-members alike can drop off their preschool to 8th-grade children off between the hours of on Monday, January 20 between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. for free food and activities which includes: air hockey tournaments, video games, arts and crafts, foosball, billiards, a movie with popcorn and more. A free, pizza luncheon kicks things off at 12:30 p.m.
High schoolers seeking volunteer hours are invited to join the fun by helping to supervise the activities. “This is a great way for students to earn volunteer hours and perpetuate the MLK A Day on, Not a Day Off National Service Initiative, said Jeanette Axford, FPC’s director of family ministries.
She added, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?'” This free, public event is our small way of perpetuating Dr. King’s Dream, giving back to our community and helping others.
KEEPING IT TOGETHER will provide a broad range of marriage and relationship education and economic stability skill-building activities for low-income couples, families, single individuals and youth. We will address the barriers that often keep them from realizing successful changes in behavior that lead to improved economic stability.
