Our congregation's commitment to social action focuses on a variety of projects in the spirit of tikkun olam to help the community and world.
The annual High Holy Days food drive assists local food banks, including Community Harvest, Wellspring and Associated Churches. Take a grocery bag home on Rosh Hashanah and bring it back on Yom Kippur filled with non-perishable items.
Mitzvah Day brings together the congregation for a day of community service, whether working in the greater community, participating in a walk to raise money for the homeless, making fleece blankets to distribute to children, donating new and gently used clothes to children and families, sprucing up our own building, or helping needy children.
Our new ongoing Thoughtful Thursdays program in partnership with the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation and Congregation B'nai Jacob helps 85 low-income children and their families who attend Head Start in the Temple building. We also collected canned goods at Hanukkah to build a giant hanukkiya to raise awareness and support Thoughtful Thursdays.
The Temple Youth Group selects tikkun olam projects annually to assist a variety of organizations. Recent projects included participating in Nothing But Nets, volunteering at Hope House and Conflict Minerals.
Our members support MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, including encouraging our b'nei mitzvah students to donate a portion of their gifts to feed the hungry. (www.mazon.org)
Achduth Vesholom also is a supporting congregation of Wellspring Interfaith Social Services.
To find out more about how you can help, contact the Temple office at 744-4245.