Charities Calendar 

Dec. 8-22  “GIVING TREE” gift collection for children at the Tri-City Homeless Coalition Shelter and at Raphael House.

Dec. 24     CHRISTMAS EVE VIGIL

Dec. 25     CHRISTMAS!!!   CHRIST IS BORN—GLORIFY HIM!!!

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Taking a Look at a Special Organization:

Tri-City Homeless Coalition  

The Tri-City Homeless Coalition annually provides over 750 local homeless children and adults with the shelter, food, and services necessary to getting back into stable housing.  Tri-City Homeless Coalition runs seven different programs that provide everything from medical care, mental health and addiction services for those living on the street; shelter for families and single adults; transitional housing for families leaving Sunrise Village shelter; to follow-up case management designed to keep people in their own housing.

Homelessness is a growing problem.  Local need for shelter space has dramatically increased because of the national economic downturn.  Currently, there are over 100 families on the waiting list for the Sunrise Village shelter on Brown Street! 

Please consider supporting Tri-City Homeless Coalition’s activities to address local homelessness and its causes by joining fellow St. Innocent parishioners and serving lunch to the homeless at Sunrise Village Shelter on the first Saturday of every month.  Also, please go to the beautiful “Giving Tree” in the sacristy and select the name of one or more children from Sunrise Village Shelter or from Raphael House’s transitional housing.  The children in the shelters have each made a small wish-list with a few special gifts on it—it would be wonderful if we could give each homeless child their Christmas wish this year!  We will be collecting gifts till Sunday, December 22. 

"If a brother or a sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in Peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?” (James 2:15-16)