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Ministries for Social Concern / Outreach
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Catholic Harvest Food Pantry (CHFP)
All parishioners are welcome and encouraged to make non-perishable food donations to the CHFP. We collect all donations in the lobby closet (just inside the door from the parking lot). The pantry is open five days a week. Volunteers help sort incoming donations; direct clients through the distribution process or drive the Food Pantry van to pick up bread from local grocery stores. For more information CLICK HERE.Contact: Shari Gordon (Director, CHFP)Cor Christi
Our parish office regularly receives requests from members of our surrounding community for financial assistance to meet many different kinds of financial needs. Cor Christi is a small group of parishioners who do due diligence to vet each request, help those in need, and be good stewards of the generous donations we receive for this purpose.Contact: Fr. Kyle Sahd (Pastor)Jamaican Mission Team (JMT)
Since 2006 teams of adult parishioners and a priest have travelled to the Diocese of Mandeville in Jamaica for a week in January to serve. The Mission Trip is planned and developed over 9 months leading up to the trip. Teambuilding activities include various fundraising efforts, collecting and packing items to take to Jamaica. Manual work is very much at the heart of the mission. The work may be building a small house, repairing, or remodeling various institutional buildings, and painting. For more information CLICK HERE.Contact: Fr. Kyle Sahd (Pastor)JMT Alumni
Those who have made a mission trip to Jamaica whose goal is to provide an opportunity for on-going spiritual development in and to aid the new mission team. There are over 100 Members of this group.Contact: Warren Mejo (Volunteer & JMT Alumnus)Email: [email protected]JMT Student Sponsorship
Provides tuition assistance to the students in need at the St. Margaret Mary Basic and Prep School in Lional Town Jamaica.Contact: Michelle Lynch (Volunteer & JMT Alumnus)Email: [email protected]Off The Streets York, Inc. (OTSY)
A nondenominational charitable organization, 501(c)(3), that provides the homeless of York (who can pay future rent) with the financial resources to secure and furnish a home. OTSY is first contacted by one of the social services agency caseworkers indicating they have an individual/family ready to move into a home that has been secured by the agency or individual already. OTSY will assist with a security deposit paid directly to the landlord. We collect furnishings donated from the community and deliver and set them up to help the family establish their new home. For more information CLICK HERE.Contact: Jim Werth (Volunteer)Email: [email protected]Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen
Every first Friday of the month, St. Joseph parishioners feed the hungry by preparing twenty casseroles for Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen. Simply pick up an aluminum pan anytime from the lobby of the church and follow the attached directions. Return it to the front lobby by 7:45 AM on the 1st Friday of the month. The filled pans are delivered to the Soup Kitchen to be baked and fed to the hungry of York. For more information CLICK HERE.Contact: Binky Theodore (Parish Secretary & Staff Member)Prison Ministry
Our Prison Ministry serves inmates in York County Prison. In our visits we follow a format developed by a ministry that began at St. Catherine Laboure Parish in Harrisburg called Prison Christian Growth Group (PCGG). In pairs, we visit both men and women every week. At each visit, the Facilitator selects a theme and a few supportive scripture readings. We’re given an hour to meet with the inmates and we try to spend about 40 minutes of that hour on the portion of the meeting we call “sharing”. Our primary charge is to be good listeners.Contact: Jim Werth (Volunteer)Email: [email protected]