HOH AWARDS SOON: On August 1, honorees for the 7th Annual Harvest of Hope Dinner will be announced here at ccsolidarity.org.
Once again this year three awards will be presented: The Rich Cunningham New Leader for Justice Award, Global Herald, and the Partner in Charity.
This year's dinner, October 8 at Sacred Heart Parish Hall, New Brunswick, already features renown theologian and author Megan McKenna, keynote speaker, while retreat leader Fr. Jim Dolan, SJ serves as the host for the evening.
Leading Operation Rice Bowl organizations and Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant recipients will be noted, and all proceeds of the dinner benefit the Sacred Heart parish conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
PROJECT SUPPORT UPDATE: ONE CHAPEL COMPLETE, ONE ON THE WAY
OUR LADY OF REFUGE CHAPEL AND COMMUNITY CENTER:
BUILDING for the MIND, BODY AND SOUL of the VILLAGE!
Chellapanpettai is a small village, a sub parish of Budalur in the Diocese of Thanjavur in Southeast India and home to about 200 Catholic families.
In early February 2010, CCST wired $11,600 to begin construction of a chapel and community center, to replace the one devastated by a lightning strike and cyclone. This work is the latest in CCST's six-year partnership with Thanjavur.
Pictured above: our first chapel/community center, in the Nagapattinam parish village of Melakarairruppu, dedicated in Feb. 2009.
Read CRS' 5th anniversary story on Metuchen's work in India
Read more about our projects overseas by clicking HERE.
JANUARY is POVERTY IN AMERICA AWARENESS month. Learn more from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
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You may also send a check to: Catholic Charities Solidarity Team, Edison Family Services Center, 26 Safran Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837.
Wed, Aug 25: CCST Migration (Justice for Immigrants), Sacred Heart Parish, New Brunswick, 7pm
Tues, Sept 14: General CCST meeting, Sacred Heart Parish, New Brunswick, 6:30pm
Outbound Guatemala trips:
July 28-Aug 3 Diocesan youth delegation
Aug 10-17 St. Joseph, Hillsborough youth delegation
Aug 24-31 St. Joseph, Hillsborough adult delegation
Nov 13-17 Queenship of Mary visit to La Morena
Members of an eight-member January 2010 Metuchen delegation are pictured amidst Santa Rosa clergy and Bishop Bernabe Sagastume in Nueva Santa Rosa.
A March 4 Catholic Spirit
story recaps the partnership to date.
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