Some of our Outreach Activities
Aid for Friends – is a local organization that supports frail and elderly shut-ins in the Philadelphia area with free home-cooked meals delivered by volunteers. We have been meeting three or four times a year since 2010 to assemble meals for up to 80 individuals.
St. James School – is a faith-based Philadelphia middle school in the Episcopal tradition, committed to educating traditionally underresourced students in a nuturing environment. The school opened its doors in the Allegheny West section of North Philadelphia in September 2011, and is committed to providing a challenging academic program that encourages the development of the moral, spiritual, intellectual, physical and creative gifts in its students. St. George’s supports this school in a variety of ways, including financial donations, participation in their fundraising events, and periodic drives to collect needed supplies such as books.
Impact Services – St. George’s provides financial support to this organization, which provides housing, job training and street outreach for homeless veterans.
St. Barnabas Mission – We collect supplies the first Sunday of every month for St. Barnabas Mission, a shelter for homeless families run by Episcopal Community Services (ECS); and also collect winter coats as the temperature drops.
Good Works – We have been working with this local organization since 2008, helping families in Phoenixville and Coatesville with household repairs. Prior to this we had worked with Habitat for Humanity and a mission in New Orleans doing similar work.
Torrey House – In our congregation we have a number of the residents of a local home for people with physical, behavioral, or cognitive disabilities. Torrey House specializes in working with individuals who have schizophrenia and similar serious mental illnesses. Three times a year the Outreach Committee puts together a basket of food, games and magazines which we deliver to Torrey House.
Tommy’s Gifts for Kids – For the last four years our Advent project has been collecting toys for this organization, founded by one of our parishioners to provide children undergoing cancer treatment with gifts to make their hospital visits more bearable. This ministry was inspired by Tommy Ricci, a fourteen year leukemia survivor.
Episcopal Community Services – The Outreach Committee provides financial to support to the ECS and the programs they manage throughout the Delaware valley.
Ardmore Food Pantry – When I walked into the Ardmore Pantry for the first time and saw the crowd of people waiting for the pantry to open, it was hard to comprehend that these were are neighbors, less than a mile from our own church doors, and they needed food.
The Pantry is open twice weekly. Their only requirement is that its patrons live in the area. I noticed that a large percentage of the regulars were elderly women with disabilities. Cereal is one of the staples at the Pantry and one of the higher priced items. At St. George’s we do a cereal drive twice yearly. Our cereal-only coffee hours are a reminder that for some people that’s all there is in their own pantry.
— by Donna DiPaulo
