Community Service
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Caring for Friends
Help provide wholesome meals for the homebound in our community. Volunteers donate meals, visit people with meals, or serve as a driver. Container kits are picked up and meals dropped off at the back porch of 602 S. Main St. during weekend Masses.
Contact: Kate Commiskey, 610-933-3814
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Blood drives
Multiple times a year St. Ann's Parish hosts American Red Cross blood drives. Dates will be published in the bulletin. Please click this link to locate a blood drive near you and to reserve a donation time. Schedule a Blood, Platelet or Plasma Donation | American Red Cross (redcrossblood.org) -
Meals for St. John's Hospice
St. John's Hospice Casseroles provide food for homeless men in Philadelphia. Casseroles are collected on the fifth Wednesday of the month, approximately four times a year. Recipes and pans are picked up at the Parish Office and the frozen casseroles are left on the back steps of the Parish Office by 10:00 AM on the day listed in the bulletin. All parishioners are welcome to help.
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Meals for St. Mary's Franciscan Shelter
Two weeks a year our parish provides dinner
for the guests of St. Mary’s Shelter in Phoenixville. Volunteers are asked to prepare a family-style meal and deliver it to the Shelter. Specific details about meals are arranged by the coordinator.
Contact: Patti Phillips
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Rosary Makers Guild
Rosary Makers Guild is open to anyone who enjoys crafts and wants to put their skills to work for those in need. Meetings are at 9:00 AM in the Church Hall on the first Friday of each month. Rosaries can be made at home by those who want to participate but can’t attend meetings. Rosaries are distributed to our parish, school, local hospitals, nursing homes, to the Philadelphia Archdiocese, to missionaries and to those in the armed services.
Contact: Linda Kramer 610-983-3839
[email protected]
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Prayer Shawl Ministry
Prayer Shawl Group is open to anyone who enjoys knitting or crocheting. Prayer Shawls are given to shelter, comfort and give solace to the recipient. It enfolds the wearer in a warm, tangible hug. Meetings are held the third Monday of the month at Noon in the Church Hall.
Contact: Madelyn Howard, 484-302-5705
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