- Rebuilding Together
Every year on the last Saturday of April numerous parishioners
work to repair several owner occupied homes of the low income
elderly and handicapped of the community. Although this
work is usually completed in one day, the rest of the year
is spent preparing for the event.
- Drivers As a member of
the ecumenical organization Northwest Portland Ministries,
this parish participates in the program of driving the homebound
to doctors’ appointments and shopping. Drivers are needed
to volunteer several hours a week either driving the NWPM
van or their own automobile.
- Goose Hollow Homeless Shelter
This shelter for homeless families operates out of the First
Methodist Church from November through March. Volunteers
from churches and organizations in the area serve as overnight
hosts or help in the evenings. On an average night from
five to eight families are provided lodging.
- Macdonald Center
A residence for low-income disabled adults, also provides
outreach services to the very poor of downtown Portland. The
parish supports the center in many ways from sponsoring
spiritual retreats, providing home baked goods, celebrating
holidays and individual birthdays, collecting and
distributing hats, gloves, scarves, books, toiletries,
blankets and coats.
- Medallion Apartments Through
the Housing Authority of Portland’s Adopt a Building program
our parish has taken on the Medallion apartment complex
with the goal of helping to nurture positive community interaction
for its elderly and disabled residents. Among other activities
is a monthly birthday party for the residents.
- St. Vincent DePaul For
more than thirty years the parish has been serving the needy
of our Northwest neighborhood in conjunction with the Archdiocesan
St. Vincent DePaul Society. Volunteers are needed to continue
this work.
- Sisters of the Road Cafe Every
other third Sunday of the month $2 tickets for a hot meal
at this Cafe are sold after the Sunday Masses. These tickets
may be given to people asking for food or returned to the
Cafe to use as it sees fit. Volunteers are needed to sell
these tickets after the Masses.
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