Get Involved in Social Justice

Children and Women

• Aid for Women of Northern Lake County: to give hope to women who are pregnant,explain the risks in abortion, and offer life affirming alternatives such as parenting or adoption. Carol Walsh 847-249-2700
• Beacon Place: Barb Karacic:224-399-9267  www.beacon-place.org.  At Beacon Place, we strive to feed, educate, activate, train, and empower children and families through food and technology resources that will enable them to develop as stronger individuals and communities.
• Care for Creation: our mission is to raise awareness of Laudato Si on caring for the environment and to provide practical suggestions on living out the teachings. contact Louise Przywara 847-340-5033 for information on the parish ministry.
• Feed My Starving Children: new permanent site in Libertyville to volunteer and make meals to feed God's children. Sign up on line at FMSC.org. Contact:  847-984-3846.. 
  Feed My Starving Children is a Christian, hunger-relief organization whose goal is to provide nutritious, specially formulated meals to starving children around the world, through engaging the hearts of donors and volunteers who feel called to partner with us in this compassionate mission.
• Giving Tree Projects (Advent and Lent): Gifts, coats, diapers, socks, toiletries and other needed items are provide to families and agencies at Christmas and Easter through the generosity of the parishioners. Tags with needed items are hung on ribbons in the Narthex and returned before distribution day in the gym. 
  Mary Causey 847-990-1213. 
• Haven: Kate Ceithaml kate@lakecountyhaven.org  847-680-1901 http://www.lakecountyhaven.org. To empower homeless women and their children to achieve permanent, independent living. It is our vision that no one who enters our program will ever be homeless again.
• Habitat for Humanity: brings people together to build decent homes and communities. Contact 847-623-1020.
• Maristella: to promote self- sufficiency of the homeless women and mothers with children in Lake County by providing assistance with safe, clean, affordable housing,rent subsidies, educational and casework services. Contact Fran 847-367-5360
• PADS: Public Action to Deliver Shelter provides meals and shelter for persons who are homeless in Lake County. United Methodist Church and St. Joseph Parish provides sites for PADS on Saturday nights. 847-367-5627 Nancy Knight  http://www.padslakecounty.org  PADS: 847-689-4357
• Respect Life Ministry: as Catholics we are deeply committed to a Culture of Life where every human being is valued and protected from the moment of conception until natural death.
  Joann Seal  847-367-8478 sealjoann@comcast.net.
  Patty Keegan 847-367-8726  PLK718@aol.com.
• Simple Acts of Kindness: is a parish wide ministry. The mission is to offer simple acts of kindness towards one another in our parish community. Parishioners will be invited to receive an act of kindness from other parishioners. Contact: Mary Causey 847-990-1213.
• Waukegan Soup Kitchen: Friday and Saturday nights teams of parishioners serve meals at the Waukegan Soup Kitchen. Chris Muender 847-362-4089. Mike Lynn 847-975-2692
• Waukegan to College: is a targeted program that helps disadvantaged students prepare for, achieve admission, and succeed in college. There are many opportunities for mentoring or tutoring a child. Elyse Danckers: 630-306-5512. http://www.waukegantocollege.org

Seniors

• Catholic Charities Parish Outreach: Our parish supports Catholic Charities financially and through volunteers in the Meals on Wheels Program and other outreach services. Lisa Roti 847-782-4117 http://www.catholiccharities.net Meals on Wheels 847-546-5733.
• Elder Care:  Volunteers are needed to provide grocery shopping, transportation to doctor appointments and visits to the elderly in Lake County.Jill Grubbs 847-406-4683 
  ElderCARE’s mission is to help homebound older adults (65+) with limited resources to remain as healthy and independent as possible. Located in Waukegan, IL, we provide free transportation to medical appointments, shopping, and home visits to the older adults of northern Lake County, Illinois. ElderCARE is the only free door-through-door medical transportation service in northern Lake County.http://www.eldercarelakecounty.org
• Rosary Makers:is a group of parishioners who come together in prayer and make Rosaries to be distributed to others at the parish. Contact Rhoda 847-362-5659

Unemployed

• Employment Ministry: continues outreach, networking and providing speakers and resources to the unemployed and the underemployed every first and third Wednesday of the month. John Jennings 847-680-3213. jfjennings@comcast.net.
• Graf Center: Sister Kathleen  klongop@mbtparish.org.  847-775-0858.
•  http://www.mostblessedtrinityparish.org/Fr.php
• The mission and purpose of Most Blessed Trinity Parish and our Community Social Service (CSS) programs is visible in the daily activities of our more than 50 parish ministries who serve the spiritual enrichment needs of our parish community. Our mission and purpose is also seen in the work of our four CSS programs as they assist in providing daily nutritional needs as well as provide basic educational programs, support and tools which are a major driving force to improve our client’s self-confidence and eventually self-reliance. Our ministry and Community Social Service efforts follow the guiding principal or our parish mission of “Serving the people of God with a preferential option for the poor”.

Feed the Hungry

• Knights Of Columbus: members show love for their neighbors through charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism. Contact: Dan Love 847-961-0206
• Food Pantry:  St Joseph's food pantry is open on Monday and Thursdays from 11:30 a.m.till 1:00 p.m. The pantry serves the people of Libertyville Township. Volunteers make and distribute bags of food at the pantry located in the Formation Center. Mary Causey 847-990-1213

Soup Kitchen

• Mary and Joseph Shelter Soup Kitchen in Chicago:  St. Joseph parishioners serve sandwiches to the men and women who are homelass at the shelter in Chicago three Sunday evenings per month. Randy Nipper 847-573-1762http://www.franoutreach.org
• Waukegan Soup Kitchen: Friday and Saturday nights teams of parishioners serve meals at the Waukegan Soup Kitchen. Chris Muender 847-362-4089. Mike Lynn 847-975-2692
• PADS: Public Action to Deliver Shelter provides meals and shelter for persons who are homeless in Lake County. United Methodist Church and St. Joseph Parish provides sites for PADS on Saturday nights. 847-367-5627 Nancy Knight http://www.padslakecounty.org PADS 847-689-4357
• Catholic Charities Parish Outreach: Our parish supports Catholic Charities financially and through volunteers in the Meals on Wheels Program and other outreach services. Lisa Roti 847-782-4117. Meals on wheels 847-546-5733 (intake)

Education

• Beacon Place: Barb Karacic    www.beacon-place.org     224-399-9267

     At Beacon Place, we strive to feed, educate, activate, train, and empower children and           families through food and technology resources that will enable them to develop as               stronger individuals and communities.

• Graf Center: Sister Kathleen  klongop@mbtparish.org.    847-775-0858
  The mission and purpose of Most Blessed Trinity Parish and our Community Social Service (CSS) programs is visible in the daily activities of our more than 50 parish ministries who serve the spiritual enrichment needs of our parish community. Our mission and purpose is also seen in the work of our four CSS programs as they assist in providing daily nutritional needs as well as provide basic educational programs, support and tools which are a major driving force to improve our client’s self-confidence and eventually self-reliance. Our ministry and Community Social Service efforts follow the guiding principal or our parish mission of “Serving the people of God with a preferential option for the poor”.http://www.mostblessedtrinityparish.org/Fr.php
• Waukegan to College: is a targeted program that helps disadvantaged students prepare for, achieve admission, and succeed in college. There are many opportunities for mentoring or tutoring a child. Elyse Danckers 630-306-5512 http://www.waukegantocollege.org

Fundraising and drives

• Giving Tree Projects (Advent and Lent): Gifts, coats, diapers, socks, toiletries and other needed items are provide to families and agencies at Christmas and Easter through the generosity of the parishioners. Tags with needed items are hung on ribbons in the Narthex and returned before distribution day in the gym. 
  Mary Causey 847-990-1213

Housing
 

• Habitat for Humanity: brings people together to build decent homes and communities. Contact 847-623-1020.
• • Haven: Kate Ceithaml kate@lakecountyhaven.org    847-680-1901.To empower homeless women and their children to achieve permanent, independent living. It is our vision that no one who enters our program will ever be homeless again.
  • Mary and Joseph Shelter Soup Kitchen in Chicago:   St. Joseph parishioners serve sandwiches to the men and women who are homelass at the shelter in Chicago three Sunday evenings per month. Randy Nipper 847-573-1762
• PADS: Public Action to Deliver Shelter provides meals and shelter for persons who are homeless in Lake County. United Methodist Church and St. Joseph Parish provides sites for PADS on Saturday nights. 847-367-5627 Nancy Knight http://www.padslakecounty.org

Volunteer at PADS

• PADS: Public Action to Deliver Shelter provides meals and shelter for persons who are homeless in Lake County. United Methodist Church and St. Joseph Parish provides sites for PADS on Saturday nights. 847-367-5627. Tuesday Nights First Presbyterian Church Dave Marsden 847-362-2174.

International Experience

• International Sharing:http://www.mailisita.org  Parishioners have come together in supporting an education for the children of Moshi Tanzania.The Stella Maris School and Guesthouse are currently open and fulfill a self sustaining model for the future of the project. Parishioners continue to travel to Moshi and grow in a new understanding of another culture. St. Joseph Parish, school and Religious Education program support the community of Moshi and are in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in  Africa. Stan Taylor 847-344-0207 http://trip reports from africa
• El Nino Rey:    Kathleen O'Connor ocfam6@att.net    847-528-5873 
  El Niño Rey (www.elninorey.org) organizes dental missions to a poverty stricken area in central Mexico.  Over the past 10 years, many North Shore dentists, hygienists, and other volunteers have given their time and talents to provide free dental care to the very poor.  They also give scholarships to over 900 kids each year in order to help them stay in school longer and hopefully break the cycle of poverty.
• Nicaragua Ministry: Marjorie Conley-Gaitan   marjorieconley@aol.com  http://sharinginnicaragua@gmail.com 
  The Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus are creating a soup kitchen in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, an impoverished port town located in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of the county. This soup kitchen is designed to feed an initial group of around 130 children and some elderly people one meal a day, five days a week. The International Sharing Ministry at St. Joseph's has committed to raising funds for the acquisition of the necessary eqyipment and installation costs for the soup kitchen's on-going daily operation.

Advocacy Work

• CASA:  Michael Knight    Michael@knightinvestmentplanning.com   847-367-5191 

• Lake County United:  Advocates for human dignity and the common good in our community. Initiatives are around senior care such as the Winchester House, and affordable housing and mentoring/tutoring programs in support of education needs in Waukegan. Michael Knight 847-367-5191
• Feed the Hungry
• Feed My Starving Children: new permanent site in Libertyville to volunteer and make meals to feed God's children. Sign up on line at FMSC.org.
  Feed My Starving Children is a Christian, hunger-relief organization whose goal is to provide nutritious, specially formulated meals to starving children around the world, through engaging the hearts of donors and volunteers who feel called to partner with us in this compassionate mission.
• Graf Center: Sister Kathleen  klongop@mbtparish.org.    847-775-0858
  The mission and purpose of Most Blessed Trinity Parish and our Community Social Service (CSS) programs is visible in the daily activities of our more than 50 parish ministries who serve the spiritual enrichment needs of our parish community. Our mission and purpose is also seen in the work of our four CSS programs as they assist in providing daily nutritional needs as well as provide basic educational programs, support and tools which are a major driving force to improve our client’s self-confidence and eventually self-reliance. Our ministry and Community Social Service efforts follow the guiding principal or our parish mission of “Serving the people of God with a preferential option for the poor”.  
• Care for Creation: our mission is to raise awareness of Laudato Si on caring for the environment and to provide practical suggestions on living out the teachings. contact Louise Przywara 847-340-5033 for information on the parish ministry.
• St. Joseph's Simple Acts of Kindness: a parish wide ministry. the mission is to offer simple acts of kindness towards one another in our parish community. Parishioners will be invited to receive an act of kindness from other parishioners. contact Mary Causey 847-990-1213.