Share A Meal Raises Money For Local Hungry and Homeless

You can join St. Mary’s monthly Share A Meal donation program to help local people in need in Santa Clara County.

Each month, 70 parishioners donate money they have saved from simplifying one meal a week. This money goes directly to a local agency the parishioner has chosen from Share-A-Meal’s designated list of organizations, which serve the hungry and homeless in our area.  Participants are also encouraged to pray for an end to hunger and homelessness in our world.

Join Share-A-Meal by leaving your name and number at the Pastoral Care and Community Ministry Office, (408) 354-4061 ext. 121, or e-mailing cthornton@stmaryslg.org

Parishioner Kerry Lindholm volunteers to write the monthly Share-A-Meal newsletter that participants receive with the list of these local agencies that they designate to receive their donation.  Parishioner Virginia Finnochio serves as the program’s faithful accountant to ensure monthly payment to these agencies, based on the number of donations: 

Casa de Clara  http://www.catholicworker.org/

CHAM (Community Homeless Alliance Ministry)
http://www.cham-ministry.org/ministry.html

Emergency Housing Consortium 
http://www.ehclifebuilders.org/

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara County
http://www.2ndharvest.net/

Packard Children’s Hospital Health Van
http://www.lpch.org/

InnVision
http://www.innvision.org/


Loaves and Fishes
http://www.loavesfishes.org/

Martha’s Kitchen
http://www.marthas-kitchen.org/


Sacred Heart Community Service
http://www.shcstheheart.org/

St. Joseph’s Family Center, Gilroy
http://www.stjosephsgilroy.org/

St. Luke’s Food Pantry, Los Gatos
http://www.stlukeslg.org/pantry.htm

San Jose Family Shelter
www.familysupportivehousing.org/

We thank our parishioners for their ongoing financial contributions to Share A Meal.  No contribution is too small.