Bed Ministry

Mission
The Bed Ministry of St. Joseph Catholic Church is dedicated to building, assembling and delivering beds to children in need in our community.

Vision
All children deserve a safe, comfortable place to lay their heads. 

Request a Free Bed for Your Kids
St. Joseph Catholic Church in Libertyville is always eager to help families in need, particularly ones whose kids have uncomfortable sleeping arrangements or no beds to sleep on. Unfortunately, we can only help families who are in our service area.  Therefore, you must fit the following criteria to receive one of our beds:

Location
You must be in our service area. Currently we are servicing Lake County (IL), northern Cook Counties, McHenry, Kane, and parts of DuPage, Boone, and Walworth, WI counties.

Bedding Environment
You must have an accessible house or apartment with room large enough to fit one of our beds (twin or bunk beds only).

Application
You will need to either complete the form below, or call St. Joseph Church at 847-362-2073, to request a bed. If your bed application is accepted you will need to sign an Indemnification Release Form when the bed is delivered. If you cannot fill out the form call us and we will help you fill one out.

Ways to Request Free Beds
You can request a bed for your children, or you can request a bed for someone else (referring a family). Referring a family for a bed is a big responsibility. Generally, it is through referrals that we find the families who need our beds the most. If you’re a referral, we need the ability to reach people who refer a family via phone or text.

Bed Recipient
To qualify as a bed recipient, you must be the legal guardian of the child or children receiving the bed.

Selecting a Recipient
Unfortunately there may be a bigger demand than beds available. We can’t guarantee that every applicant will get a bed.
 
St. Joseph Bed Ministry
847-990-1215
SJBEDS.org
Stjoseph-libertyville.org/beds
 

Request A Bed  Get Involved  Donate

There are many ways to help in this ministry. The St. Joseph Libertyville is a 501c3 charity and this opens us to get more people involved. We offer the following ways to get involved:

• Donations of Money - A bed costs us $300.00 to produce and deliver. You can sponsor a bed, or even multiple beds.  

• Bedding Donations - We accept NEW Twin Comforters,Sheets and Pillows. We really like the "Bed in A Bag" sets. We have a drop-off site at 130 N. Milwaukee Ave in Libertyville. You can also ship to 121 East Maple Ave. in Libertyville too.

• Build Days - You can come and help to build the beds.  See the calendar for dates and events

• Delivery Teams - If you are Archdiocese of Chicago Virtus Compliant, you can be part of a team that delivers and sets up the bed in the homes. Please contact Marilyn Williamson (mwilliamson@stjoseph-libertyville.org) for more information on this.

• Teambuilding - You, your group, your team or your Company could sponsor Build Days. Its a great way to give back to the community or participate in team building.

• Adminstration Team - We need people that want to help manage the the bed requests and managing the paperwork for deliveries. This will be in the Church office or at home. Knowledge of computer, Excel and bilingual knowledge helpful.