"Charlene" lives and works in boundaries of the St. Ben’s parish. Two kids. Single Mom. No benefits (not even Workers Compensation). Charlene cleans homes for a living, and she does her best to provide. When Charlene was on her way to work last month, an inattentive driver rear-ended Charlene’s car at a stoplight with such [...]
When St. Ben’s Vincentians first visited Melinda last October, she had just moved into an apartment in the southeast corner of our parish. She needed our help to get the electricity turned on in that empty apartment. Melinda works on a turkey farm north of Evansville. She called us for help again recently, and again, [...]
“Millie” lives alone and is currently employed at a local Circle K gas station. Due to some health issues, she has to miss work from time to time. At $8.50 per hour, Millie has to make hard choices from time to time regarding what bills to pay. Having to miss work for the health issues [...]
The Holy Redeemer Conference of St. Vincent DePaul Society is committed through person to person service to help our neighbors who are suffering. In our last fiscal year ending September 25, 2017, we visited a a total of 306 homes, eldercare facilities and shut ins, and helped 869 neighbors and parishioners. We aided those in need [...]
*** A BIG SHOUT OUT *** We want to thank Mike McCullough, a member of the Good Shepherd Conference of SVdP, for donating countless hours to create our new employee manual and volunteer manual. We LOVE our volunteers! Thank you Mike!!! St. Vincent de Paul can serve neighbors in need primarily because of the voluntary [...]
The following are two submissions from the St. Ben's Conference sharing their outreach experiences during the holidays. Feeding the Hungry at Thanksgiving Recalling the Lord’s preferential option for the poor, St. Ben’s Vincentians gave thanks on Thanksgiving by seeing to the needs of the hungry poor: those within our midst, and beyond our Cathedral doors. [...]
The SVdP Thirft Store recently had a number of volunteers come to the Store to lend a helping hand! Gibson Southern - 35 students from the Student Government from Gibson Southern came on their day off school the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to help us for several hours. St. John Daylight SVDP Conference - They came on Tuesday, November [...]
Nora’s 3 kids were teenagers when Nora, a lifelong resident of Evansville, met Jake, who came here from Philadelphia. Nora and Jake decided to make a home together, but in 2016, Jake decided he’d go back to Philly alone. Nora worked as hard and for as many hours as she could, but without Jake’s help [...]
November 2017 - Support SVdP when you shop at Schnucks!!! For the entire month of September, when you pick up the Hunger Bag at the Schnucks located at 4500 W. Lloyd Expressway in Evansville, we receive $1! Help support the SVdP Food Pantry and purchase the Hunger Bag! Visit schnucks.bags4mycause.com for details! Head to Schnucks on the West Side and [...]
Last week, the broken American immigration system came to the door of the Parish Center at St. Benedict Cathedral. His name is “Ernesto” - a Mexican farm worker who went to New Jersey in search of the kind of work that American workers decline to perform. When Ernesto arrived in New Jersey, he applied for [...]
