Caring for Friends
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MLK Day of Service – Help Make 1,000 Meals for Caring for Friends
Please help our Youth Group and Lansdale Catholic reach our goal of 1,000 meals
for the MLK Day of Service on January 16th!Every year St. Jude Youth Group and Lansdale Catholic organize making 1,000 meals for Caring for Friends on MLK Day of Service. They need your help to make the 1,000 meals this year and here is how you can help!
- Pick up empty meal trays in the church or the covenant garage
- Cook meals at home, put the food in the trays and freeze
- Drop off meals at the covenant garage on January 16th between 9am -11am (if you cannot drop meals off on the 16th, please still make the meals since they are always needed).
Scroll down for instructions on how to prepare meal trays.
Youth and drivers can sign up to help at this Signup Genius link -
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN UP TO MAKE MEALS.
Youth and driver signup genius for MLK Jr. Day of Service
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2021-2022 CFF Photos
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St. Jude did an amazing job helping those in need in 2022!!
Please keep those meals, soups, and snack bags coming in 2023, since we have more people than ever in need in our community.
Please see the PDF instructions for preparing a meal kit below.
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Thank you to the Boy Scouts!
A big thank you to the Boy Scouts who helped to put together 250 Snack Bags for Caring for Friends in December! The Boy Scouts volunteered on December 21st to help put together snack bags from all of the remaining supplies we had from the last snack bag event. They were able to put together the bags in almost no time and had a lot of fun along the way!
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“I was hungry and you gave Me food. I was thirsty and you gave Me drink.” (Matt. 25:35)
Do you like to cook? Or maybe you like to drive? Even if you just want to help by putting together snack bags with the kids, you could help people in need while doing something you enjoy. You don't have to be a parishioner or even Catholic to volunteer for Caring for Friends, an organization which provides food and friendship to seniors, kids and adults in th
e 5-county Philadelphia region.
You can help by making meals, soups, or Snack Bags, volunteer to drive extra meals to other freezer sites, or volunteer to be a visitor. We don’t have a great need of visitors in our parish, but we always need meals and snack bags. CFF requests a variety of types of meals, including vegetarian.
Meal-tray tins and supplies are provided in the church and the convent garage. Cooking volunteers fill the tins with meals and bring them to the freezer in the convent garage.
If you don’t want to cook but you still want to help, you can put together snack bags and drop them off in the convent garage. Volunteer drivers take the meals and snack bags to regional freezers once or twice a month.
Please see the attached documents and helpful video below for more information how to prepare the meals or snack bags. If you know of anyone who would benefit from our ministry or if you’re interested in helping, please sign up on this page to get helpful updates, or contact us!
Contact Colleen Curry: [email protected]
UPDATE Feb. 2022
New Look for Meal Kits
The cost of the materials for the Meal Kits has increased by 50%, so Caring for Friends has streamlined the kits. When you prepare the meals, they will no longer have aluminum foil or be in plastic bags. Rather, you will seal them with the cover provided with each kit by crimping down the sides of the aluminum pan. We have made some meals with the new kits and they are actually easier to use, and take up less space.
View the documents and watch the helpful video below! -
Documents on Making Meals
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Recent Messages
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2 months agoHi all - we have had 2 people (thanks Diana Webster and David Waibel) who volunteered to deliver meals to the Perkasie area, but we now have 3 families who need meals, so if one more person or family...
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3 months agoGreat News - we are off to a great start thanks to the 1125 meals donated in January due to the MLK Day of Service effort lead by Diana Webster and the Youth Group! We continue to see an increased...
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5 months agoHi everyone - I am passing along information about the St. Jude 500 Club, see below. If you have any questions please contact Katie Croce at [email protected] "Join us for the 3rd annual St...
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5 months agoHi everyone! Please help our Youth Group and Lansdale Catholic reach our goal of 1,000 meals for the MLK Day of Service on January 16th! Here are the details: - Pick up empty trays in the Church or...
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