Current Outreach Projects
Collaboration Offering for Local Feeding Ministries
The offering at the 2nd Annual Rockland Collaboration Celebration on June 8 was non perishable food for the Feeding Ministries at St. Stephen’s Pearl River and St. Paul’s Spring Valley. Steve loaded his car for a delivery to St. Paul’s and here is what will go to St. Stephen’s Food Cupboard.
We partner with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Spring Valley to help with their Feeding Ministry. St. Paul’s is located at 26 South Madison Avenue in Spring Valley.
Thank you to Steve for delivering our donations to St. Paul’s!
In June we are collecting: GRAVY/BROTH/BEANS for St. Paul’s Spring Valley Feeding Ministry
In July we will collect:
CANNED VEGETABLES
Bring your donations to the church or order them to be shipped attention outreach.
Partnership with the Clarkstown Family Resource Center
We help the Clarkstown Family Resource Center with purchase of grocery store gift cards for the families in our local schools each month. We also participate in their special collections in the fall and spring.
Additional Ongoing Outreach
Episcopal Charities
We hold an Episcopal Charities Sunday each year and these donations to the Diocese provide funding for outreach ministries throughout the Diocese. (add something about the number and types of ministries supported) Founded in 1996, Episcopal Charities provides funding and operational support to parish-sponsored outreach programs serving the diverse communities of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. The 48 feeding programs supported by Episcopal Charities serve more than 6.7 million meals annually to hungry New Yorkers.
Past Outreach Projects
Spring 2026: Thank you to everyone who brought in paper towels and toilet paper and to Jacob who delivered them to the Clarkstown Family Resource Center.
Fall 2025: Thank you to everyone who brought in food for St. Paul’s Spring Valley and CFRC during October. We prayed over the donations during worship on November 9 and they were then delivered to both programs.
School Supply Collection: September 2025
We collected school supplies for St. Paul’s Spring Valley to distribute to children and families.
In August 2024 we collected school supplies and helped St. Paul's in Spring Valley distribute them to families on August 31.
Fill the bags to fill the shelves!
In July 2025 we filled bags with food so that we could help St. Paul’s Feeding Ministry refill their shelves. We also shared this as part of the #onesingleact campaign of the Diocese.
Summer 2023: Collected School Supplies for the Clarkstown Family Resource Center and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Spring Valley
Thanksgiving Food Collection for Clarkstown Family Resource Center
Fall 2024 we collected shelf-stable items to be distributed to the families of Clarkstown Schools.
Fall 2023: Collected food for Thanksgiving baskets for Clarkstown school children and their families.
Our faith in action during Lent 2023 was in the form of collecting designated household supplies and donating them to local Clarkstown families through the Clarkstown Family Resource Center.
Our Christmas outreach opportunity for 2022 was providing a few small Christmas presents for the newborns at the refugee resettlement center in NYC.
Book Collection! Summer of 2023 St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Spring Valley announced a Summer Reading Giveaway and St. John's helped by collecting books for K-12 children/teens.
From the Hunger Task Force…Thank you to all who brought in food and to those who delivered it to the Clarkstown Family Resource Center for Thanksgiving 2022.
Thank you to everyone who brought in clothing and carefully organized and packed it to give to those in our community seeking asylum.
Delivering bags of food for Thanksgiving 2021
St. John’s Hunger Task Force with Lisa Cohen, Executive Director of the Clarkstown Family Resource Center.
We remember John Coyle who for many years took our monthly donations to People to People.
