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Homeless for the Holidays
Dec. 18, 2003
Homeless for the Holidays
By Eileen Jevis/ SUN staff writer
SUN photo(s) Paul Finch
“He who has compassion on the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his good deeds.” (Prov 19:17)

The Salvation Army’s Emergency Shelter on Salina Street in Syracuse was a beehive of activity as the residents there prepared for a holiday party. Mothers were busy completing the tasks assigned them while toddlers walked in and out of the common room looking for a snack, a playmate or their mothers. This particular shelter takes only women and children and, like every other shelter in the county, is filled to capacity each night. According to information provided by the Onondaga County Homeless Task Force, there are approximately 700 homeless people in Onondaga County. This is a conservative number and does not include homeless people that may be staying with relatives, friends or in hospitals or in prison.
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“Hi Lynn, this is God.”
Oct. 9-15, 2003
“Hi Lynn, this is God.”
By Eileen Jevis/ SUN staff writer
SUN photo(s) Paul Finch
Sister Lynn Abdelnour finally answers His calls

UTICA –– The yearning began when Lynn Abdelnour was 19. She ignored it and went on living her life. Her life included working full time as an administrator at a major grocery chain in Virginia, taking college courses and teaching religious education classes at St. John Neumann Parish in Reston, Va. Sister Lynn Abdelnour, CSJ, grew up in Cohoes near Albany, where she attended St. Patrick’s Elementary School and Cohoes High School with her five brothers and sisters. After high school, she obtained a degree in physical education from Hudson Valley Community College and then moved to Virginia. Her life was full and busy. While teaching religious education at St. John Neumann’s Parish, Lynn complained so much about the parish’s religious education program, that when the coordinator left, they put her in charge. “And so it began,” said Sister Lynn. “There was a need for a children’s program that would compliment the adult RCIA program at St. John’s,” said Sister Lynn. So she started one. “It was during that time that the real stirrings to go into religious life began,“ she said. “I talked to a good friend of mine who is in the Oblates of St. Francis about what I should do. He suggested I take some time away from my job, school and parish work to really think about it. With all that was going on in my life, I needed to take some time to talk God out of this.”
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