Catholic Heart Workcamp
Joliet Youth Day
The Cursillo
Food for Marquard Center
Feed My Starving Children
 

For general information about St. Michael’s Outreach Ministry, please email Bob Janssen or call 630-665-3446, or you may contact any of the leads for a specific ministry below.

Catholic Heart Workcamp is a unique mission trip experience for current 8th-12th grade students. From June 9-14, 2024, our participants will travel to Louisville, KY where they will help residents with home repair, painting, and yard work, or serve at local agencies that support local families, children, or seniors in need. Nightly programs include Mass, skits, music, prayer, and lots of fun. Adult chaperones are also needed. Watch this video for a glimpse at last year’s mission or check out the CHWC Louisville website.

CHWC Info & FAQ for Louisville, KY

CHWC APPLICATION for Louisville 2024 (paper form)

CHWC APPLICATION for Louisville 2024 (Google Form)

Contact: Darci Mills or 630-462-5044

All current 7th-12th graders, college students, and adults are welcome to attend the first ever Joliet Youth Day on Saturday, June 1st, 2024. Held at Lewis University, this fun-filled event will include great music, keynote speakers, adoration, and end with Mass with Bishop Hicks. Purchase tickets through the St. Michael Youth Ministry by submitting $75 per person to WeShare. Darci Mills will then contact you with further information and to complete the necessary permission forms. Watch this video for a glimpse at last year’s Steubenville Conference or check out the Joliet Youth Day website.

Contact: Darci Mills or 630-462-5044

The purpose of Cursillo is to make Christian community possible in neighborhoods, parishes, work situations and the other places where people live the greater part of their lives. It is a movement, sanctioned by the Church, which offers a way for people to live what is fundamental for being a Christian.

Contact:  Mike or Marianne Kinkley,  630-690-6707 or Bob Calamia, 630-690-7488

Marquard Center is a soup kitchen located in Chicago serving meals to individuals every night of the year. Volunteers prepare casseroles and deliver them to a designated area location on the second, third and fourth Saturdays of the month where they are picked up and delivered by assigned drivers to the Marquard Center.

Contact: Tom Olp or 630-221-1612, Mary Christensen or 630-510-8896, Ann Evans or 630-469-9484

Feed My Starving Children provides lifesaving meals to people who need them most all over the world from countries affected by natural disaster to places enduring economic despair. FMSC meals have been distributed to nearly 70 countries through missionary partnerships at orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps and malnourishment centers. FMSC believes in sustainability - we don’t simply send one shipment of food to a country. Instead, we continue to provide our mission partners with the food they need to maintain their feeding programs.

Contact:  Annamarie Boyle, 630-981-4003

Stock shelves and dispense food at the Pantry in the Outreach Center.  Volunteers are needed 1 - 2 days a month for 3 hours per day.  Food is delivered on Thursdays.

Contact: Mary Newman, 630-665-3182

We promote the Gospel of Life from conception to natural death through various parish wide activities, such as Mother’s Day rose sale, pro-life Christmas card sale and a baby shower to benefit local crisis pregnancy centers.

Contact: Christine Kania, 630-532-7813

Offers tangible assistance to those in need on a person-to-person basis, while conscientiously maintaining the confidentiality and dignity of those served.

Contact:  312-560-2904 or Mike Doerries

A Stable Life, formerly The Transitional Housing Ministry, at St. Michael Church works in partnership with Bridge Communities of Glen Ellyn and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet. Both organizations work to help at-risk families with children in DuPage County avoid homelessness and learn to sustain independent and stable lives. A Stable Life offers a variety of volunteer roles. Mentors meet regularly with client families to teach household budgeting and management skills, and offer the encouragement necessary to foster the personal and economic growth needed for self-sufficiency. Both Bridge Communities and Catholic Charities offer excellent training and Case Managers to support and assist mentors in this central role. There are other volunteer opportunities in communications, support and fundraising as well. Volunteers are always welcome.

Contact:  John McNicholas - astablelife@stmichaelcommunity.org

Provides overnight shelter and meals for the homeless men, women, and families in DuPage County in conjunction with other area churches. St. Michael volunteers operate the PADS shelter one night a month (second Monday of the month from October until April) at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Wheaton.

Volunteers are needed to make and bring food to the site, serve the food, staff the shelter overnight, and perform basic cleanup in the morning.

Contact: Beth or Bob Janssen or 630-682-3846

Supports mission activities worldwide including those in Nigeria, Thailand, and Guatemala.

Contact:  Tom Olp or 630-221-1612