St. Vincent de Paul

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER, NOBLESVILLE
ONGOING NEWS ABOUT OUR MINISTRY

St. Vincent de Paul Center has been working with Midwest Food Bank in Indianapolis to develop a relationship with them to obtain food to help stock our food pantry. The need is great and it requires ongoing food donations in order for us to feed the needy families in our communities.

Despite the generous monthly food drives from various parishes and individual donations, the food seems to “fly” off our pantry shelves! We have received notification from the Midwest Food Bank that we have been accepted and they have provided us with a food pick-up day schedule. Our pick-up day is Wednesday and the dates are as follows for the upcoming months:

August 18
September 22
October 20
November 17
December 15

We need some strong, able-bodied individuals to help unload the food once our truck returns to the SVDP center. The anticipated time of return from Midwest Food Bank is approximately 3:30 – 4 p.m. on above dates.

If you are able help with the unloading on any of these dates, please call Shirley at 317-877-1331.

We appreciate the support you have so generously given to us in the past and look forward to your continued help as we work together to serve the needy in our neighborhoods and communities.

The St. Vincent de Paul Center, operated by Our Lady of Grace Church, maintains a "store" on 10th Street in Noblesville. The store needs volunteers to accept and sort donated items, to help others "shop" and to do checkout. Volunteers are needed to drive trucks to pick up merchandise. School age children with parents can sort toys and put books away. Others can sort and merchandise items. This is a great place to start to put in some of those service hours.

Gift of Time: Holy Spirit operates the shop the second Saturday of each month. The Saturday hours are 9:00 a.m. to noon.

Training: On-the-job training, just pop in and play store with us.

Contact: Dee Ricciardi: 776-0042. mike_anitadee@comcast.net