The St. Pius X Christian Service (CS) Commission is responding to a call from local non-profit organizations to provide 175 sack lunches for friends each month. Why would we be excited about this? In Catholic Social Teaching, feeding the hungry is the number one corporal Work of Mercy! Here are some options for everyone to participate in our Sack Lunch Ministry. Through a link on Flocknote (see below), families or individuals can make 50 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the comfort of their homes or gather in the church’s Fellowship Hall once a month and create sandwiches with others. There are options for families to load lunch bags each month (all items except the sandwich) or purchase and donate lunch ingredients. There is also an option for delivering the lunches to St. Vincent de Paul, Off the Streets, and Tumbleweed on Wednesdays. Check the link for our Flocknote signup and start spreading the love around!
What’s Changing with our Sandwich Ministry?
For starters, we are changing our food items to meet better the needs of the people who consume the lunches. We’ve switched from granola bars to cookies, variety chips to potato chips only, and fruit snacks to cups of real fruit. And, we’ve added Off the Streets and Tumbleweed to our delivery route. We continue to serve our friends at St. Vincent dePaul as well. The June sandwich link reflects these changes. Bag Building will now occur at 8:30 am on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. All this is an effort to meet better the needs of the population we serve. Thank you to everyone, from sandwich makers to delivery drivers to those who donate the food items. God bless you all!
The following is for our June 2025 Ministry, for 175 sack lunches: