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The Mission of Catholic Charities is to Put Faith into Action by
Providing Food, Housing, Mental Health, Adoption, Immigration, & Family Support Services to the Needy & Vulnerable of All Faiths in Fairfield County
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Events, Needs, and Outreach
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NEW COVENANT HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY in
Stamford seeks a volunteer to assist Spanish speaking
individuals in learning important skills for employment.
This would include completing job applications,
resumes, communicating with prospective employers,
and interview skills for securing employment. Volunteers
must complete an application and attend an orientation.
There is one mandatory training for all new volunteers.
For more information, call Brian Jenkins, director:
(203) 964-8228.
THOMAS MERTON CENTER in Bridgeport is in need of hot and cold breakfast cereal. For more
information and to make a donation, please contact
Mark Grasso: 203-367-9036.
MORNING GLORY in Danbury seeks volunteers
to assist in preparing and serving breakfast to the
disadvantaged, Monday-Friday; 6:30-9 a.m., at the Dorothy
Day Hospitality House. For more information, call Michele
Conderino: 748-0848, ext. 231.
Office of Community Outreach's
News and Needs
Every good deed we do put’s a proximate face
on Christ to those we help. We are ambassadors for Christ
and for His Church. May He bless you and your kin with
health and prosperity, that in these you will greater
be able to help those less fortunate. I beg your prayerful,
volunteer and financial support of these projects In
the service of Christ and His Church.
I would like to thank all the pastors who have so graciously
printed these notices in their parish’s bulletins. The
response has been great.
Anyone interested in helping expand our outreach can
contact Father Seraphim
Ralph Rohlman, Director of Community
Outreach & Prison Outreach, at (203) 416-1331 or
via e-mail frseraphim@ccfc-ct.org.
- Connecticut Bike Project: The Saint
Charles Urban Center & Pantry in Bridgeport has
graciously offered to host the Connecticut Bike Project
and Catholic Charities Office of Community Outreach
has willingly partnered with the Urban Center to promote
participation in the bike drives and generate community
awareness of the new program. The Connecticut
Bike Project collects and distributes donated bicycles
in good shape to the poor of Bridgeport. Through the
Urban Center and other participating parishes and synagogues
this non-sectarian charity project is trying to help
those in need of transportation to work and errands,
especially the economically disadvantaged, individuals
with physical or mental disabilities that prevent them
from driving, ex-offenders and those without licenses
to drive. Please spread the word that bicycles are
in need for this project. Consider hosting a Bike-Drive
at your parish! Contacted Mr. Brooks Sumberg to schedule.
He will be there for the event and take the bikes the
same day as the drive. All you will need to do is publicize
the event in your bullitins or newsletters. Maybe you
can make it a project for your Parish youth group or
Confirmation class. All bikes can be dropped off at
96 Hillspoint Road in Westport (please leave them at
the house end of the driveway) or you can contact the
project founder, Mr. Brooks Sumberg, by e-mail: bsumberg@earthlink.net.
- Help needed! There is a woman in
her 70’s of unfathomable generosity who goes to downtown
Bridgeport every other weekend and feeds anyone who
is in need. Her name is Ann Marie. She
serves over 100 hot meals (usually three courses) almost
singled-handed. She freely distributes everything from
bay clothes to canned soup. Besides cooking all the
food herself at her home, she purchases it with her
own funds! I should also mention that her charity occurs
no matter what the weather or the temperature; out
on the street, in the open air, rain or shine, snow
or clear, on the simple folding tables she brings with
her. When everything has been given out Ann Marie even
canvasses the sidewalks to pick up stray napkins and
cups so no trash is left behind. She then loads up
her professional sized pots and pans to back home to
wash and get ready to do all over again. If you are
interested in joining me to help Ann Marie every other
Sunday or even occasionally, please give me a call.
If you can drop items from the Immediate Need List
(below), please contact her at: Ann Marie Tarinelli,
18 Country Lane, Trumbull, CT (203) 268-5553.
- IMMEDIATE NEED
LIST:
Peanut butter
Canned soup
Canned vegetables
Cereal
"Take-away" food containers
Paper cups
Lemonade
Iced tea
Large plastic folding tables
Large beverage thermoses with spicket
Large commercial baking pans
Microwave popcorn
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Band-aids
Bars of soap
Shampoo
Men’s socks
Men’s clothes
Oatmeal
Antibacterial ointment (Neosporin)
Rubber gloves
- Saint Charles Urban Center: The
Urban Center at Saint Charles Borromeo Parish in Bridgeport
has been helping people in need for many, many years.
Especially in these current economic times they can
desperately use donations of food, clothes, furniture
in good condition and, well, anything a family who
is struggling needs. Please consider them in your prayers
and in the grocery line. You can reach the Director,
Roberto at 203-993-1027. The Center
is located at 1279 East Main St., Bridgeport.
- Bibles for Prison Outreach: The Prison Outreach
ministry is in desperate need of Bibles for the prison.
Anyone able to either donate copies of Catholic Bibles
or make contributions toward bulk purchase, please
deliver them to the Catholic Center at 238 Jewett Ave.,
Bridgeport, or e-mail the Catholic Charities Community
Outreach office at: frseraphim@ccfc-ct.org.
- Saint Stephen Food Pantry: The Bridgeport
Food Pantry gives food to individuals and families
in need who reside in 06604 Zip code. Donations of
food and funds are always needed. You can call them
directly at (203) 394-0881.
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