In-Kind Donation Collections
In spring 2020, the Saint Paul’s Outreach Committee started Shop and Drop benefiting the St. Luke’s Germantown food pantry in response to our growing awareness of how food insecurity is affecting our neighbors. Your generosity and commitment to this effort is responsible for forging the vibrant partnership we continue to enjoy with St. Luke’s.
Your kindness is simply inspiring and has led us to discern a need for wider collection efforts to support our partners throughout the year. Each month of the program year, we will collect items for a different partner agency. Items collection will take place on Sunday mornings in the narthex. These monthly collections will not replace our Shop and Drop food collections for St. Luke’s, which will continue to take place year-round. It is our hope that these monthly focused collections will provide an access point for Outreach involvement for all ages and stages in the congregation, while also providing parishioners with information about our partner organizations and how they can get more involved.
We will have a full schedule of our collections soon, but take a look below to see how you can get involved now!
Mission and Vision
The mission of Outreach is to alleviate poverty, primarily through partnering with area organizations that serve the hungry and the homeless. We seek to identify areas of need which fit with St Pauls’ volunteering capabilities, skill bases and financial resources. We will focus on developing delivery, advocacy and issue – oriented collaborations amongst local churches and community organizations dedicated mainly to the relief of hunger and homelessness.
We are in a position now of expanding our reach. We will do so by:
A) Growing our Core Relationship Program, adding at least two local organizations to the broad exchanges we currently enjoy with Face to Face Germantown and Family Promise of Philadelphia;
B) Identifying multi church collaborations;
C) Better understanding local community development needs and putting a shoulder to some of those wheels;
D) Identifying, educating and raising our voice on broader issues we can influence, bringing in local churches on those same issues.
At the same time, you can join us as we continue to deliver on existing initiatives – Shop and Drop, Rise Against Hunger, the Thanksgiving Dinner Drive, The Christmas Giving Tree, Cooking for Outreach, Refugee support, and the Five Fridays concert series.
Contact us with any questions.
