Caring for Friends
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Snack Bag Making Event September 17, 2022 at St. Jude
Hi everyone - We had a great event on Saturday, we had over 60 volunteers come together to make 1,752 snack bags for Caring for Friends! Your monetary donations enabled Caring for Friends to bring supplies for 1,000 bags and food donations from GIANT (4275 County Line Road, Chalfont) and the people from St Jude enabled us to make another 752 snack bags. The donations from the raffle for the Edible Arrangement donated from Edible Arrangements (2333 Welsh Rd, Unit C-18, Lansdale) raised the last of the funds we needed for the event!
Most importantly, we had a great time coming together as a community (young, old, employees of GIANT and deluxe, etc.) to help those in need - thank you to everyone who made it possible! Below is one picture from the event, more are coming as people who were at the event send me their photos.
GIANT is partnering with our St Jude/Caring for Friends efforts and has offered to sponsor monthly events with us. We are thinking about doing a monthly scaled down version of the snack bag event (perhaps with a goal of 500 bags), more to come as we figure out the details.
In the meantime, please keep those meals and soups coming, the representative from Caring for Friends who was at the event on Saturday (Matt Gambino) said they continue to see low donations and said our donations are helping them get food to all those in need. He also asked to see if we could reach out to our neighbors and friends to see if there may be anyone in our local community who could benefit from meals from Caring from Friends, so if you know of anyone please pass on Caring for Friends contact information (215) 464-2224.
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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: curryhome@me.com
Questions? Email Colleen or text her at (215) 439-7888.
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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2 weeks agoHi everyone - We had a great event on Saturday, we had over 60 volunteers come together to make 1,752 snack bags for Caring for Friends! Your monetary donations enabled Caring for Friends to bring...
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3 weeks agoHi everyone - we are trying to raise the last of the donations for the Caring for Friends Snack Bag Event during the event this Saturday (September 17th) at St. Jude. We will have a table of baked...
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3 weeks agoHi everyone - great job in August, we made 275 meals, 110 soups and 112 snack bags ! See below for our totals for 2022! We are getting ready for the September 17th Snack Bag event, we welcome anyone...
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a month agoHi everyone - We dropped the meals off at Caring for Friends this afternoon and they asked us to tell everyone how thankful they are for all the meals we are sending and the quality of the meals...
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