Charity and Justice
Opportunities to Serve
November/December 2016
This list is created in the spirit of “many hands make light work.” Each of the following projects already has a project leader who will organize
and coordinate the project. Now that leader needs some help on the smaller tasks, like passing something out after mass or delivering
something. The tasks typically take from between 15 minutes to two hours. These tasks are your opportunity to live out Christ’s call to serve
your brothers and sisters in need. Please contact the project leader directly to volunteer your time and effort.
Project Summary
Charity and Justice Committee
Hope in a Box: every day the
Center for Hope in Flint provides
basic needs to hundreds of our
poorest brothers and sisters. We
will be placing a box in the
greeting area to collect different
items each month.
NEW Life Center: This center,
run by two nuns in Flint, serves
those in need with education and
job training, provision of food,
basic needs and many other
ways.
Ongoing and Current Projects
Opportunity to Serve
When and Where
Get involved in creating, defining,
Come to the next meeting on
planning and coordinating various
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 7 pm
charity and justice activities
Make a donation to the box: the
Take few minutes while you’re doing
items requested for November are
your regular shopping and then drop
warm socks, hats, gloves and coats
things into the blue Hope in a Box
(adult and children’s). Of course,
while walking into church
other donations of household goods,
like paper towels, work gloves,
toiletries, etc. are always welcome.
Volunteers are needed on six days in 1. On December 7 at 9 am
December to help to prepare
parishioners will meet at church
hundreds of Christmas packages that
to “carpool” to the center,
include warm clothes, blankets, toys,
returning around 3 pm. Please
etc.
sign up at Charity and Justice
table
2. Parishioners can volunteer on
their own on any of the following
days: December 7,8, 9 and
12,13,14
Project Leader and Contact
Ken Kuna - C&J Chairperson
[email protected]
(734) 751-4100
Leo Hanifin
[email protected]
810-522-6645
Sue Weir
[email protected]
810-599-1572
Project Summary
Magdalen’s Kitchen: every
Monday evening our parish feeds
a nice dinner to the hungry
(spiritually, physically, socially)
Baby bottles: an ongoing project,
for financial donations to
Pregnancy Helpline
Food Delivery
Backpacks for Released
Prisoners: Flint and Livingston
County
Advocacy for Public
Transportation in Livingston
County: there are over 10,000
residents of our county who
depend on public transportation,
but LETS doesn’t have the
capacity to serve them all.
Advent Giving Tree for a number
of organizations including Living
County Cath Charities, LACASA,
St. Anne’s Detroit and Genesee
County Cath. Charities (Center
for Hope)
St. Vincent DePaul Clothing Drive
Right to Life Christmas Card sale
to support and protect the lives
of the unborn
Opportunity to Serve
1. Approximately 20 volunteers are
needed for the following tasks:
cooks, servers, cleanup
When and Where
1. About two hours of work before,
during or after the dinner on
Monday eve
2. Make a desert and deliver it to the
2. Make desert
kitchen before dinner
3. Pick up bread at Saturday evening;
deliver it to the kitchen before
3. Pick up donated bread from
Panera’s
Mon. eve
Pick up an empty baby bottle from
Fill it with coins (or bills) and return
the Charity and Justice counter in the it to the Charity and Justice table
Gathering Space
Weekly delivery of food collections
On Monday, empty the box and take
it to the organization designated for
that week.
A request will be made when
Buy these items and place them in
additional items are needed for the
the Big Blue Hope in a Box in the
next group of backpacks for men
gathering space or volunteer to help
released from the Michigan
pack the backpacks. The largest
Department of Corrections into job
need right now is for t-shirts, sizes 2X
training and a new life.
and 3X (white or colored).
The Livingston County Transportation 1. Join the LCTC to support this
Coalition (LCTC) has developed a
need.
vision for improved transportation to 2. Attend the Livingston
address this and other needs. The
Transportation Summit to be
coalition includes several faith-based
held the morning of Tuesday,
organizations, including Catholic
Jan. 17. Call Leo Hanifin to RSVP
Charities, Love INC, and some
members of our parish.
Take a tag and give a gift
A few minutes to buy the gift(s). This
year the tree will be put up on Nov.
26 at 9:30 am (the first Sunday of
Advent)
Pass out bags for people to fill with
clothes
Donate your “gently used” clothes
Cards and ornaments after masses
the weekend of Nov. 19/20
Our next clothing drive will occur on
Nov. 12-13
Buy some cards and ornaments after
mass
Project Leader and Contact
See sign-up sheet at the
Charity and Justice counter in
the gathering space
Pick up a bottle at the Charity
and Justice Counter in the
gathering space
See sign-up sheet at the
Charity and Justice counter in
the gathering space
Bob Jacobs
<[email protected]>
Leo Hanifin
[email protected]
810-522-6645
Jeane Penneau
[email protected]
920-840-0092
Mary Walker
[email protected]
810-227-7997
Jan Carpenter
[email protected]
810-227-5269
Project Summary
Migrant Camp Appeal: each
spring and summer the parish
collects needed items for migrant
workers (laundry soap, water,
towels, . . .) and ministers to their
spiritual needs
On-the-rise Bakery is an initiative
of the Capuchins in Detroit and is
staffed by released prisoners;
each year the parish hosts a sale
of their delicious baked goods
Carnations for Mothers’ Day: as
a celebration of motherhood,
there flowers will be sold after
mass on Mothers’ Day weekend
and the proceeds will help
support the Livingston County
Right to Life
Crop Walk: CROP Walk is part of
a local ecumenical and
international effort on hunger
awareness and prevention. The
walk is 3 miles and takes about 1
hour. It is a reminder of the
distance that people in
undeveloped countries walk one
way for clean food and water.
Annual Projects during Other Months
Opportunity to Serve
This year’s collection was an
overwhelming success.
When and Where
Donate materials or join
Deacon Dave when he visits
the camp throughout the
summer
Project Leader and Contact
This year’s sale will be on April 1-2,
2017
Help set up or purchase baked
goods
Sue Weir
[email protected]
810-599-1572
1. Sell carnations after mass at a
table in the gathering space
2. Buy a carnation for mom.
Contact Jan Carpenter to work
for 20 minutes after one mass
Jan Carpenter
Walk and donate for this important
The Crop Walk happens in
cause. Funds support local and
October. (In 2016 it happened
international hunger needs, or can be on Oct. 16.)
designated for Catholic Charities.
Deacon Dave Scharf
[email protected]
810-229-8624
[email protected]
810-227-5269
Mike Olsen
[email protected]
810-229-6189