Campus Ministry Comes to the Aid of Storm Victims

November 08, 2012

One week after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New York metropolitan area, Rafael Serrano Rivera, Campus Minister, Campus Ministry, led a team of St. John’s student volunteers to help victims of the storm begin to pick up the pieces of their lives.

“On Monday, when we came back to campus, we wanted to do something to help,” said Rivera, who received a call from Pamela G. Shea-Byrnes, Vice President for Campus Ministry and University Events. “Pam told me that St. Thomas More Church in Rockaway Point had food and clothes that were donated, but no way of getting them to the victims of the storm.”

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