St. Columba Ecumenical Ministries Group Involvement

Many groups support St. Columba by activities that take little time at their meetings, but
make a huge difference in the help that we can provide to those in need. The following is a list
of ideas that your group can implement.

1.        Collect items that we need at the Day Center:
- food pantry items
- used clothes
- toiletries
- linens
- coffee

2.        Make sandwiches for our Day Center
- groups get together and purchase supplies to make sandwiches: bread, baggies, cheese, ham
(or another lunch meat) and disposable gloves – no condiments
- make sandwiches as part of the group meeting put each sandwich into a sandwich bag, put all
sandwiches into the bread sleeve and deliver to St. Columba. Please wear gloves when making
sandwiches and practice safe food handling (e.g., not leaving our perishable items).

3.        Create another snack for the Day Center folks
- some groups have made “trail mix” of various snacks, including cereal, candy, pretzels, nuts,
etc.
- put it all in individual baggies that can be handed out with the sandwiches on days we are
low on sandwiches

4.        Create hygiene kits for homeless individuals
- include hotel/sample size of some of the following:
          shampoo          soap         toothbrush          toothpaste        razors

5.        Special occasion treats:
- e.g., baggies of Easter candy or cookies for Easter, Valentine’s Day or other holidays

Please, call Alicia at (757) 627-6748 if you are interested in helping in one of these ways or
have other ideas to help those in need.