Social Concerns
Kaukauna Social Concerns Ministry is a city-wide committee consisting of three members from each Catholic Parish/Parish site. We meet once a month except for the summer months. We are involved with helping provide meals for a week at the Fox Valley Warming Shelter, Jesse Tree, providing needed items for shelters, Mother and Unborn Baby Care, and Haven of Hope on a rotating basis, and keeping updated regarding social concerns in our area. The Prayer Shawl Ministry also grew out of this group. Please pray about the possibility of joining us. Contact: Sue Zwiers, 920-766-1445, ext. 117.
- PROGRAM : Provides "Fountain of Life" Series annually (speakers/panels regarding awareness of LIFE issues)
- ANNUAL COLLECTION DRIVES (each collection takes place in alternate years)
╬ Diapers for Mother and Unborn Baby Care
╬ Needed items for Emergency Shelter
- SERVICE :
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Emergency Shelter: Volunteers provide the evening meal at the Emergency Shelter one or two evenings a month
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Meals Ministry : Volunteers provide an occasional meal for an individual or family in need of temporary help
╬ Promote and support Pro-Life efforts: May Rose Sale and Bowl for Life
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Prayer Shawl Ministry: Shawls are knitted or crocheted by volunteers and given to shut-ins or any
in need of warmth and comfort in nursing homes, elderly, etc.
According to the
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
The duty of making oneself a neighbor to others and actively serving them becomes even more urgent when it involves the disadvantaged, in whatever area this may be - "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me" (CCC # 1932).
The Mission Statement of the Kaukauna Social Concerns Committee:
To unite faith with action for Justice.