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Fr. Josaphat and Joan Korchinski Kudos to Brendan Wood, the BWI Partners and friends for injecting the “dreaded Christmas party” with new life and meaning. The founding of Lazarus Partners shows that the ghosts of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” are not really needed to spur company executives on to acts of charity. All that is needed are men and women who care for the less fortunate in tangible ways. Our charity of choice is the Welcome Home, located in Winnipeg. The Home is a project of the Ukranian Catholic Redemptorists of the Yorkton Province. As an extension of their mission to serve the poor and to the most abandoned, they founded a community of lay adult men and women who were willing and qualified to serve the needy of the neighbourhood. They named it the Welcome Home and opened it in 1993. Volunteers give a year or more of their lives to serve in this mission. The experience helps them to discern their vocation in life. They enter a new and challenging lifestyle, a spiritual boot camp if you will. During their stay they learn what community living is all about, and are given the opportunity to work with the Redemptorists in providing food, clothing and shelter to the needy. The financial assistance provided by donors helps make a difference in the lives of the volunteer workers and in the people they minister to. “… as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me”. (Mt. 25:40)
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