St Joseph Parish has many wonderful service opportunities
available. Some require very little time.
If you would like more information contact the
church office at 636-227-5247.
Helping Hands is a group of volunteers who provide a meal to parishioners
who have a funeral at St Joseph. Volunteers prepare and serve dishes.
Call Jeanne Becker 636-394-6511 if you are interested in being part
of this program.
Volunteers provide skilled and unskilled labor to assist with ©2001
St. Joseph Parish Manchester MO specific home repair and rehab projects
in our area referred by the St Vincent de Paul group. Also, St Joseph
parish is now involved in the building of homes through Habitat
for Humanity.
Volunteers prepare single servings of soup or stew, or set aside
individual portions from their family meal for an “unseen dinner
guest”. Each meal is frozen, labeled, dated and stored at home until
the fourth Tuesday of each month. The meals are delivered to either
of two drop off points in the parish. The meals are taken to a parish
in the inner city, which distributes them to shut-ins, elderly,
and needy in the neighborhood.
On the second Sunday of each month, before all Masses, items are
collected in our school lobby for the St Augustine Wellston Center
thrift shop and food pantry. St Joseph parishioners who wish to
participate in the program may pick up a flyer from the Church lobby
describing items to be collected on the particular Sunday.
Crisis Meal Ministry grew out of the Helping Hands program and provides
meals to parish families that are caught in a short-term medical
crisis. Volunteers prepare a meal and deliver it to the home of
the parishioners who are in need. Call 636-227-5247 for information.
Individuals or families volunteer to deliver the Giving Sunday items
collected at St Joseph Parish to the St Augustine Wellston Center,
1705 Kienlen Ave. The items are loaded at 12:45 p.m. on Giving Sunday.
This service takes about two hours to complete.
Every Friday, from November through March, volunteers provide sandwiches,
fruit and other necessities for the homeless and needy. These are
dropped off at the soccer concession stand and then taken to inner-city
churches and care facilities for distribution to the poor.
On the third Wednesday of each month, volunteers go to Sts. Peter
& Paul Soup Kitchen (in the Soulard area) to prepare, serve, and
clean up after the meal. The volunteers leave St Joseph Parish at
2:45 p.m. and return by 7:00 p.m. Other volunteers bake desserts
at home, to be served with the meal. These baked goods should be
dropped off at the parish office by 2:30 p.m.
St Joseph parish sponsors a much-needed blood drive at the parish
twice a year, usually in January and June. We encourage first time
donors to become regular donors. Minimum age is seventeen. Please
sign up when the time comes. Give the Gift of Life! Coordinators
are Corrine Coughlin 636-391-8596 and Barb Schroy 636-391-6683.
In Conjunction with the St Vincent de Paul work, St Joseph Parish
has a food pantry that provide temporary help with groceries when
a parishioner is experiencing financial difficulty. Fore more information
call the parish office.
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Food pantry workers
Volunteers work at St Augustine Center preparing food and other
supplies, which will be distributed through their food pantry
program. |
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Thrift Shop Volunteers
Volunteers work on site at the Wellston Center setting up household
and clothing items to be sold in the thrift shop. |
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Drivers
Volunteers help St Augustine Wellston Center by picking up donated
food and other supplies from designated points in the metropolitan
area for use in the pantry program. |
Before Christmas, St Joseph parish adopts approximately 125 families
in rural Missouri. Specific gifts are requested for members of these
families and these gifts are wrapped and brought to the parih on
a designated Saturday or Sunday before Christmas. These packages
are then delivered to the Rural Parish Workers of Christ the King
for distribution to the needy families. Details of the program are
put in the parish bulletin.
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