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HELP NEEDED FOR PADS MEALS

(Public Action to Deliver Shelter)
Each Monday evening during the month of March, St. Joseph Parish will be providing a meal for PADS (the shelter is located in the lower level of the First Congregational Church, directly across the street from the Downers Grove Library). Approximately 90 homeless are served dinner, provided a safe night’s sleep, breakfast the following morning and a brown bag lunch. Our PADS location is now designated a “Family First Site”. This allows families to enter the facility by 6:00 pm in order to give chi ldren quiet time to complete homework, play, etc.

Help is needed to provide either a specific food item for the dinner meal or assist in the kitchen during meal time. Church communities are also asked to provide food items used to prepare brown bag lunches for the next day, as well as breakfast foods for the following morning.

If you are willing to help, please call the contact assigned to each meal. We will be looking for entrees, salads, vegetables and desserts for each dinner; bulk lunch meat, bread, and fruit for the preparation of brown bag lunches; and bulk eggs, bacon, cereal, milk and juice for each breakfast. As always, your generosity is greatly appreciated!

March 5 Meatloaf Joanne Norgle - 630/971-3789
March 12 Italian Beef Julie Correll - 630/963-6922
March 19 Roast Turkey Julie Correll - 630/963-6922
March 26 Lasagna Margaret Wittman - 630/963-5027

HELP NEEDED FOR PADS NIGHT STAFF
St. Joseph Parish is also responsible for supplying volunteers to staff this overnight shelter. If you are able to work on any of these Monday nights, please contact Deacon Frank Kozar at 630/964-0216 ext. 1107. The following shifts are available:
9:00—11:00 pm,
11:00 pm—3:00 am,
3:00—7:00 am.
If you have never worked PADS overnight, be assured that you will be scheduled with experienced people!

There is Healing in the Love of God…

And sometimes this healing can only occur when we share our wounds and scars with one another and trust each other.

St. Joseph Parish is offering a six-week support group for parishioners who have lost a loved one. In a safe, prayerful setting, we will find the healing we need to go forward from the experience of loss. If you are grieving over a loved one and would like some support, please join us on Mondays from 6:30—8:30 pm in the Parish Center Library. This group is scheduled to begin in early February, depending on registration.

Dr. Eileen Fera and Mr. Chuck Cioper, longtime parishioners at St. Joseph’s, will run this group.

Please call the Parish Center at 630/964-0216 to register.

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