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A Gracious thank you from your friends at Blessed Sacrament/Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Newark.
Thank you to all the parishioners and volunteers that help provide food, clothing, diapers, much needed backpacks & school supplies for our clients. Last month we served 869 people. We could not provide for so many without you.
God Bless you and your group of pantry volunteers. ~Helen Brooks, Facilitator
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OLM’s Social Justice and Peace Ministry provides opportunities, for OLM individuals, ministries and families to understand and take action by addressing issues of social justice and peace on a local and global level. It provides opportunities for you to become involved in social justice and peace action according to your own life situations. We meet once a month in the OLM St. Mary’s Room at 7:00PM for events planned throughout the year.
Contact:
Ginny Millard, [email protected] or
Bob Lampert, [email protected]
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Social Justice and Peace Ministry
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
In order for SJPM to go forward with our ministry ideas, please volunteer
- Box of Joy: Volunteers to facilitate information, distribution, collection and delivery of Boxes of Joy.
- Blessing of the Animals: St. Francis Feast Day Celebration, Sat. Oct. 2 at noon. Participate and assist celebrant.
- Harvest Food Drive: Nov. 6-7 assist with collection, organization and delivery of donations
- Creation Care Team: Join the team and make a difference in care of our common home
- Advent Giving Tree: creating nonprofit recipient list, create tags, collect & distribute gifts
- Advocacy: Learn & share about the extremely important topics like the UN Climate Change Conference 2021- Glasgow, Scotland- COP26 31 Oct. -12 Nov. Organize writing postcards and/or support the petition at http://www.catholicpetition.org sponsored by Catholic organizing.
- Ministry Liaison: connect with other OLM ministries to share SJPM information; Example: on church sustainability issues. (Youth Ministry, Knights of Columbus, Spanish Ministry etc..)
- OLMA:/Religious Ed/Youth Ministry Liaison: share SJPM information and encourage students how to become part of OLM Care Creation Team or other SJPM actions.
- Laudato Si’ : On Care for Our Common Home Discussion Group: organize and facilitate the group using our Group Reading Guide. * Discussion will be held 15-20 minutes before meeting.
- Publicity: publicize SJPM events in Pascack News, Community Life, Park Ridge Electronic Board; take pictures, use the arts to promote events, update OLM website, Facebook, create QR codes, posters etc….
- Programs: obtain , organize, publicize events with speakers, documentaries, interactive or online events.
- Outreach: Share information with other deanery parishes, interreligious communities in the Pascack Valley and other church communities like Blessed Sacrament, Newark
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OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH
PARK RIDGE, NJ 07656
MISSION STATEMENT Revision 9-26-2021
SOCIAL JUSTICE & PEACE MINISTRY
BE … INFORMED! INSPIRED! INVOLVED!
The mission of the Social Justice and Peace Ministry is to provide parishioners of Our Lady of Mercy Church with information, inspiration and opportunities for involvment in addressing issues of social justice and peace on a local and global level. The ministry provides a commitment to pray, learn, advocate and act to promote social justice issues for the common good that support and follow the Catholic Social Teachings of the Catholic faith.
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