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Local grad wins the JfL Samaritan Award
By EPHRATA REVIEW
Ephrata Review
Published: Jun 19, 2008 10:56 AM EST
EPHRATA - A national non-profit organization, based in Raleigh, NC, will hold its
Annual Awards Dinner during which it will award the 2008 JfL Samaritan
Award recognizing its Volunteer of the Year. Fred Hubach, Jr., a resident
of Ephrata, PA and incoming freshman at Wheaton College, will be the
recipient of this prestigious award selected from thousands of volunteers
across the country.
JfL equips churches and organizations to provide
job training and support to those who struggle finding and keeping
employment. Today in over 90 cities and 30 states, hundreds of churches and
community based organizations are leading JfL classes training people in
character and work readiness skills and connecting them to a community of
supportive relationships to help them achieve success in the marketplace.
JfL training takes place in urban and suburban churches, prisons and
re-entry programs, rescue missions, shelters, YMCAs, ministries to youth
and many more.
Mr. Hubach will receive this award as a result of his
extraordinary leadership of the JfL class held at his church, Reformed
Presbyterian Church in Ephrata, PA. As a part of his high school Senior
Service Project, Mr. Hubach chose to lead a JfL class for developmentally
disabled adults who have struggled finding and keeping meaningful
employment.
As the visionary leader of this initiative, Mr. Hubach
raised the needed funding and recruited a teaching staff, support staff,
and group of businesspeople all more than twice his age to train and
educate the students on various topics related to employment skills. As a
result, the students of the class, some of whom could neither read nor
write, have experienced hope they have never experienced before and for
some, found employment that previously would have been
unattainable.
Mr. Fred Hubach, Jr. has demonstrated unique qualities
of a servant giving time and value to these individuals in ways that will
change their lives forever. As a result, Jobs for Life is honored to award
Mr. Hubach its 2008 Samaritan Award.
For more information, contact
David Spickard at 919-669-8584..500
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