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PAGE 8—The Georgia Bulletin, August 15, 1974
Mechanicsville Community Center
Offers Many Projects for Needy
FREEDOM CENTER
VOLUNTEERS provide a variety of
services for the residents of the
Mechanicsville section of Atlanta. The
program is supported by St. Paul of the
Cross parish.
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Father George Maloney, S.J., professor of Oriental
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library, 2825 Briarcliff Rd., NE on Sunday, August 18 from
1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The seminar, sponsored by the 10
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the development of greater depth in prayer.
BY CHRIS STARR
What began as a buying dub for people
who wanted reduced food prices has
flourished into a community center offering
job referrals, budget counselling, assistance for
people who are eligible for Social Security
benefits and other programs for the needy.
The “Freedom Mechanicsville Community
Center,” located at the corner of Georgia
Avenue and Ira Street, is run by volunteer
help from St. Paul of the Cross Parish,
community volunteers and graduate students
in social work from Atlanta University.
“People need someone they can trust,” says
Mrs. G.L. Toomer, the guiding light who is
responsible for much of the center. “We’ve
always had the faith that we can do it,” she
added, “and more importantly we have tried
to share that faith and respect with the people
who come to the center for help.”
The “faith and determination” that begun
the center just blocks from Atlanta’s stadium,
is shared by the many volunteers who donate
their time to the running of a budget store
that sustains the center’s service programs.
Begun February, 1970, the center has
operated with revenue from its clothing store
and a grant from the Passionist Fathers.
Father Richard Leary, C.P., a parish priest at
St. Paul of the Cross and the center’s chaplain,
has been with the center for three years.
Father Leary said he considers it a
fulfillment of his corporal and spiritual duty
to work in the secular pursuits of the center.
“I think my chief contribution is priestly - a
church that has a spiritual presence. The poor
have the Gospel preached to them. People ask
me to pray with them in crisis situations, and
I visit them in the hospitals, jails, courts, their
homes and the elderly at the time of their
death. This is a great opportunity for a healing
ministry.”
The center is also receiving the expertise
and enthusiasm from graduate students at
Atlanta University. The University’s School of
Social Work places first year students at the
center as part of an internship required for a
masters degree in social work.
The work of the students is geared toward
helping the volunteers in setting up
community organization and case work in
housing, food and credit problems. The
students also act as advocates between
agencies and the people the agencies serve.
Ms. Joanne V. Rhone, an assistant professor
of social work at Atlanta University, is
responsible for placing students at the center
and said students who have worked there have
profited a great deal from the experience.
“But the most beautiful experience has
been the opportunity to work with Mrs.
Toomer, whose philosophy and principle are
geared to giving people a sense of
responsibility and dignity. Mrs. Toomer has
set up accounts for people at the thrift store
and people pay what they can. If they are not
able to pay, she will perhaps give them what
they need or have them help her fold clothes
or other needed jobs. She is giving people a
sense of dignity - not a hand out.”
The center, now located in an old house in
one of Atlanta’s poorest neighborhoods, is
soon to move into a new building that will
include a thrift store, chapel and office space
for counselling services. The new building has
been paid for at each phase of construction
and the local contracting firm doing the
construction has hired many neighbors of the
center to help build, not just in a physical
way, but in what Father Leary called,
“Spiritual values that are bettering the quality
of life in Mechanicsville.
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