2009 Global Solidarity Brochure



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Lent and Operation Rice Bowl have begun...Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Rally in DC March 21, or go to justiceforimmigrants.org...


The soup kitchen at Ebenezer Baptist Church, New Brunswick is one of several 2009 recipients of Operation Rice Bowl funds in the Metuchen Diocese.
Go to the first week of Lent issue of the Catholic Spirit for a front-page feature on Operation Rice Bowl in the diocese.



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

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One In Six
JANUARY is POVERTY IN AMERICA AWARENESS month. Learn more from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development






 

To DONATE online, please go to the Catholic Charities Online Donation page and direct gift to Catholic Relief Services Metuchen. To donate to a specific project, please indicate in the Comments section the name of the project you wish to support.

You may also send a check to: Catholic Charities Solidarity Team, Edison Family Services Center, 26 Safran Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837.



Sunday, March 21 -- Rally for Immigration Reform on Washington Mall. To join, contact Lorena Gaibor at lgaibor@ccdom.org. To send a message to your legislator, CLICK HERE and print out JFI postcards

Tuesday, March 23 -- CCST general meeting, theme of "Water", Sacred Heart, New Brunswick, 6:30pm

Tuesday, Apr 27 -- CCST general meeting, theme of "Developing Parish Partnerships", meeting at Sisters of Christian Charity Motherhouse, 350 Bernardsville Rd - Mendham, NJ 07945

Tuesday, May 25 -- CCST general meeting, theme of "Operation Rice Bowl and Food Security," Sacred Heart, New Brunswick, 6:30pm




Members of an eight-member January 2010 Metuchen delegation are pictured amidst Santa Rosa clergy and Bishop Bernabe Sagastume in Nueva Santa Rosa.





   

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