Serve

Arrange a Parish Food Drive. Place bin in back of parish for food donations to St. Vincent de Paul or a local charity.

Donate to a food drive so everyone can have something to eat.

Donate to your local food bank.

The next time you make a recipe that can be easily frozen, make a double batch and donate one to your local food pantry or soup kitchen.

Farmers’ markets open in May; visit them and purchase food from local farmers.

Plant a (parish) community garden; donate its produce to your food pantry.

Volunteer at a food pantry
Serve at a soup kitchen
Share a meal at a soup kitchen

Places You Can Volunteer
Blanchet House (PDX)
Loaves & Fishes (Meals on Wheels)
St. Francis Dining Hall (PDX)
St. Andre Bessette (PDX)
Union Gospel Mission (PDX)
Urban Gleaners (PDX)
Linn-Benton Food Share
Senior Meals (Lebanon)
South Corvallis Food Bank
St. Mary Soup Kitchen (Albany)
St. Mary Stone Soup Kitchen (Corvallis)
Food & Friends (Jackson, Josephine)

We need politicians “genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!”

Call your members of Congress and urge them to protect anti-poverty programs.

Educate yourself and others about the problem of hunger in the world; use your voice and your vote to petition and pressure politicians to make the fight against world hunger a higher priority for our government.

Try not to purchase more food than you are able to eat. If you notice that you end up throwing groceries away each week, purchasing less groceries would eliminate waste and allow you to donate the savings to those in need.

REFLECT AND FOLLOW-UP: The work of mercy isn't finished when the activity ends. Spend time in prayer, reflecting on where you saw and experienced the love and mercy of Christ. If you did an activity with a group, follow-up with others in that group and share insights or observations. This is a chance to grow in faith - and mercy! - together.