Christian Service Ministries |
Catholic Charities
The following services are provided: counseling, adoption, pregnancy counseling, Project Rachel, home health, hospice, in-home support, abstinence education, emergency foster care, foster grandparents, refugee resettlement and temporary and case management for people experience emergencies such as food, rent, utilities and medication assistance. Contact Julie Brown at 780-0906.
Cemetery Ministry
Anyone in need of guidance in choosing a place of burial or any other questions you may have regarding care of yourself or a loved one at the time of death, contact Art Ercolani at 764-3190. Members interested in the maintenance and upkeep of the Mount Calvary Cemetery, contact Charlie Riggs at 438-4380.
First Saturday Devotions
In response to the Blessed Mother's request there is First Saturday Mass, Rosary, Confessions for world peace. Contact Barbara Rew at 829-9240.
Hot Lunch Service, Inc. (Formerly St. Mary's Food Kitchen)
On the fourth Friday of each month, St. Paul's provides the food and servers for the noon meal at St. Mary's food kitchen in Kansas City, Kansas. The kitchen has provided noon meals for the needy since February 1982. The service is open every day of the year. Groups from several denominations of churches and various organizations prepare meals and serve them on designed days. Donations of food and workers are needed each month. St. Mary's food kitchen was the first free food kitchen in Kansas City. The service is now the largest in the metro area. Contact Ann Schwermann for more information'at, 782-0205.
Marriage Prep Lead Couple
Lead couples are trained to facilitate a group of engaged couples in your home with an openness to share some married life stories, give witness to commitment and continual marital growth. Meetings are usually 2.5 hours a week for five weeks, with 4-5 couples, once or twice a year. Contact Linda Porter at 319-2406 or Jean Humphrey at 262-9037.
Natural Family Planning
Classes are held on the third Friday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Board Room of the Parish Office Building. The series consists of 4 classes beginning in January, May and September. For more information visit our web site at www.geocities.com/~kcmo_ccl or contact David and Christine Downey at 764-0323.
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration
"Source and summit of life in the church." Spend time with Jesus in prayer, meditation and silence. Contact Gloria Adams at 940-2341 or Barbara Rew at 829-9240
Prison Ministry
The ministry conducts communion service once a week at the Johnson County Adult Detention Center and also provides a bible and other religious reading materials when requested. Contact Louie Parre at 1-913-686-2128.