ONGOING CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAMS

There is always something going on in our Christian Service Department!

You can be involved in one of following ways:

1. Lap Blankets for our neighbors at Manor of Novi at Christmas (We will collect hand made lap blankets for our annual "Christmas in July" party on July 24, 2022 at 2 pm in the Family Center. 

2. Weekly Food collection: All food donated needs to be nonperishable and with reasonable expiration dates. Our biggest needs are canned meat (not Tuna), Delun Mac & Cheese, Chunky or Progresso ready to serve soups. Monetary donations can be made to Holy Family with Food in the memo. 

3. Gently used casual clothing (no tears or stains) and small house hold items in very good condition can be donated most Mondays 9-12 and 6:30-8:30 pm. 

4. Greeting Card Outreach: To provide parishioners, neighbors and friends an opportunity to receive love in the form of a greeting card... Participants of this program may include people in our parish who are homebound or living in a senior community, those who receive the Eucharist from our Homebound Ministry team, and anyone who would enjoy being a recipient. If you want to be a sender or know someone who would like to be a receipant e-amil [email protected]. 

5. Sewing Ministry: Do you quilt? We have a sewing ministry that gathers monthly on the second Tuesday at 7pm in the Family Center. 

We collect eye glasses, cancelled postage stamps, and aluminum can tabs 

Eye glasses
We collect used eye glasses for the local Lions Club, who send them to the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center for processing. There the glasses are sorted to determine those that are usable or unusable, processed and placed in inventory for distribution to optical missions around the world. Lions help to minimize landfil waste by supporting precious metal reclamation and scrap processing for damaged glasses that are unusable.  

Cancelled postage stamps
We collect cancelled postage stamps for the Sisters of the Holy Cross Ministry. They request a 1/4 inch around the cancelled stamp and the prefered stamps are U.S Commemoratives, foreign, and stamps with a value of $1 or more, most forever stamps have no value. They remove the stamps form envelope corners and sell them to stamp brokers. The proceeds benefit ministries around the world.  

Aluminum can tabs 
We collect aluminum can tabs for local Ronald Mc Donald Houses. It takes approximately 1,128 tabs tp equal a pound and an average of .40 to .50 cents per pound is the pay out. The Pop Tab program helps provide extra revenue for families to stay at the Ronald McDonald House while a sick child says in a nearby hospital. 

THE ABOVE ITEMS CAN BE PLACED IN THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE BIN IN THE CHURCH VESTIBULE

Call 248-349-8553
or email: [email protected]
For more information