Caring for Friends
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March 1, 2025 Update
Hi everyone - You all did a wonderful job in 2024! We made 9,700 meals/snacks in 2024, which could feed 162 people a meal a day for two months! We’ve also had a great start for 2025, with 1,939 meals/snacks so far.
We are planning a snack bag event in April, so stay tuned for more details!
Our next Caring for Friends meeting is March 24th at 7pm at St. Jude School. All are welcome!
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Help us fill our freezers
Meals and soups are in short supply! Can you help us?
- Pick up empty meal trays in the church or the convent garage
- Cook meals at home, put the food in the trays and freeze
Drop off meals at the convent garage
Instructions on how to prepare meal trays are included in the document below and farther down on this web page.
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I'd like to help - Keep me informed!
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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 the 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]Join us for our monthly meetings, 7pm-8:30pm:
- September 23, 2024
- November 25, 2024
- December 16, 2024
- January 27, 2025
- February 24, 2025
- March 24, 2025
- April 28, 2025
- May 26, 2025 (tentative)
- June 30, 2025
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Documents on Making Meals
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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.
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Recent Messages
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a week agoHi everyone - the keypad is fixed, so you can drop off/pick up meals. We are trying to have 500 meals/soups made in March due to increase need, so if you can make more meals that would be appreciated!
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2 weeks agoHi everyone - the keypad on the garage isnt working so if you need to pick up meals to be delivered please let me know since Sue has a key to be able to get into the space. We should have it sorted...
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2 weeks agoHi everyone - You all did a wonderful job in 2024! We made 9,700 meals in 2024 which would provide 1 meal per day for 162 people for 60 days. We have also had a great start for 2025, we have made 1,
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Photo Albums
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CFF Slideshow
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