SJW Food Pantry "Loaves & Fishes"

SJW Food Pantry
"Loaves & Fishes"

SJW Food Pantry Hours & Phone #:
315-399-6023

Monday: 12:00-3:00pm
Tuesday: 1:00- 3:00pm
Wednesday: 3:00-5:00pm
Thursday: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Friday: Closed

The second Thursday of each month is our Fresh Foods Distribution which starts at 3:15 p.m. You can arrive at 2:30 p.m. for sign-up.

The Food Pantry, located in the Parish Center, is a supplementary source for those in temporary need, and also for the working poor. Parishioners and other community churches and organizations support the pantry by donating items needed. Items can be dropped off at the Parish Center during the week or in the basket located in the back of church during weekend liturgies. We are a client choice pantry. The Hunger Committee participants organize and stock the pantry on a weekly basis. When necessary, we supplement the pantry with food purchases from donations or from the Human Development budget.

Children's Christmas Bazaar
Children, ages 4 to 12, from the Pantry and both parishes are invited to come and purchase a gift for their parents/ grandparents. They spend a afternoon with us. We have a story, lunch, shopping and wrapping of the gifts, crafts and cookie decorating. The cost is $1.00 per gift purchased. The program goes from 10:30 to 1:30. It is a good time for parents to go shopping for their children without them!!!

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Holiday Baskets

At Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter we ask our parishioners to contribute food that will provide a complete festive meal. The baskets are then distributed to families in need from our Liverpool area. We also provide baskets for some families in the City of Syracuse as designated by agencies that offer assistance. Approximately 150-200 baskets are prepared each holiday season. Volunteers are always needed to help fill these baskets. Contact Jennifer 315-457-6060 or email jbrwoodburn@gmail.com

Reverse Collections

Each year on the Feast of Epiphany, in cooperation with the Liturgy Planning Committee, we ask parishioners to help us support Jail Ministry, Dorothy Day House, Oxford Inn, Sarah House, and the Samaritan Center by bringing specific items (i.e., baby clothes, cleaning supplies) to our weekend liturgies. Help is always needed in collecting and distributing the items.

School Supplies

Every August our pantries collect school supplies. Examples of items needed: pencil boxes and pouches, dry erase markers, glue sticks, pink erasers, folders in red, blue and yellow, 2” three ring binders, index cards, loose leaf paper, notebooks, markers, colored pencils, and backpacks. Drop items off at the Food Pantry or the weekend during mass times.
Thank you for your support!

Members of the Hunger Committee,
some of the religious education classes and the parish at large donate items and prepare ‘Christmas Boxes’ for children in third-world countries. They are ‘shoe-boxes’ containing little gifts that could be useful for children in a specific age group and a specific gender.

As part of our ongoing effort to reach out to those in need, members of the Hunger Committee come together to prepare and serve a meal at the Samaritan Center, an interfaith program that feeds the homeless and needy men, women and children of Syracuse. It operates every day of the year and provides a hot meal to an average of 250 guests per day. On the weekends, churches volunteer to take over this task. St. Joseph the Worker provides, a meal three times a year.

Catholic Charities Men's Shelter

Since 1985 parishioners have prepared sandwiches for Oxford Inn, a night shelter for men in Syracuse. Sandwiches are made in the Parish Center kitchen every third Wednesday of the month. Volunteers are always welcome!