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Upcoming Events

Catholic Charities Chew Street Soup Kitchen

The Diocesan wide food drive at the kitchen, 179 W.Chew Street,  for April 17th, 9 AM-11 AM, is still scheduled at this time. Please view the article on ad-today.com to learn more.

As a reminder, Catholic Charities purchases food through grants, as well as through Second Harvest Food Bank, food drives and personal donations. Monetary donations to purchase food are much appreciated. Please make checks payable to "Catholic Charities", memo line "for food for Chew Street Soup Kitchen." Please mail to: Catholic Charities -Attention: Robert Nicolella 900 S. Woodward Street Allentown, PA 18103. 

Betty Lou's Pantry Volunteer Opportunity
BLP has 2 couples who pick up the bread from Giant and Fresh Market on the two Saturdays that food is distributed, usually the second or fourth Saturdays of every month. One volunteer couple picks up one distribution day, the other does the next. The volunteer couple goes to Giant at 8 AM, picks up bread and brings it to the pantry, then goes to Fresh Market to do the same.  Total time is about an hour,  not super heavy lifting. The pantry will need to replace one couple, as they will be moving out of the area.
Please consider volunteering. For more information, please contact:  ppatt6@gmail.com. Thank you.

Betty Lou's Pantry News
Much of the pantry's food comes from donations, one being the annual National Letter Carrier Food Drive, which in 2019 collected 9317 pounds for Betty Lou's Pantry - thank you letter carriers!  Using an average of $1.43 per pound, that amounts to $13,328 worth of food.  Due to Covid19, the 2020 food drive was cancelled nationwide.  For 2021, the United States Post Office has decided to replace the food drive with a "monetary food drive".  Each pantry across the country who wishes to participate has created a means for collecting money and reporting to the USPO the dollar amount collected. Our director,  Chris Page, has organized a GoFundMe request. 

Thank you in advance for whatever you can do to help feed our neighbors in need.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/letter-carrier-stamp-out-hunger?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

Annual Events

*All events currently on hold, or being scheduled in a different manner*

• Night at the Races (Saturday before Ash Wednesday )
• Children’s Mission Sunday Carnival (Sunday before Ash Wednesday)
• Children’s Easter Egg Hunt (Saturday before Palm Sunday)
• Palm Sunday Breakfast
• Annual Golf Outing (May)
• Welcome Summer Festival (June)
• Forty Hours (October)
• Family Trick-or-Treat Party (Last Weekend in October)
• Altar & Rosary Society Advent Reflection (Sunday before Thanksgiving)
• Parish Family Christmas Buffet (Held on a Sunday in Advent)