Full Circle Bar Mitzvah
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The Hebrew word Mitzvah translated means a good deed.
This past Saturday Full Circle Celebrations helped coordinate a Party with a Purpose for a Bar Mitzvah. The guest of honor, Ethan, declined gifts and asked guests to make donations to a cause that is dear to him. In additon to the financial donations, the kids at the party created 30 gift bags to donate to the Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. At the party Full Circle Celebrations helped the kids decorate goodie bags and fill them with games, candy, and toys for kids in the hospital battling cancer. Notes of encouragement were included with each goodie bag from the child who made the bag and the guest of honor, a lukemia survivor himself. Ethan raised over $3,000 through the use of the user-friendly online fundraising site GiveForward.org and inspired his friends to volunteer their time for others. Now that’s putting the Mitzvah back in Bar Mitzvah!
This article appeared in the in the NY Times on 12/9/09 and gives examples of other kids serving their communities in preparation for adulthood.
