Come, join us for a Retirement Farewell & Reception for our Pastor – Fr. Dennis Metzger: Open House – Sunday, June 24th 12:30-2:30 p.m. East Campus Fr. Wurzel Family Center For planning, please let us know if you can join us for this celebration by registering online at https://tinyurl.com/y7j8jzaz. For information or to volunteer to help, please call or email Joanne Denyer at 419-885-5791 or jdenyer@stjoesylvania.org.
JOSEPH’S MEALS Saturday and Sunday, June 16th and 17th, is the sign-up weekend for anyone interested in helping with our monthly parish food donation to the Helping Hands of St. Louis Soup Kitchen. Tables are in the back and front of the church with lists of various items that are needed. Please sign up to make a pasta dish or to provide other foods or supplies. The drop-off point for these items will be on the East Campus, off of Ravine Drive on Wednesday morning, June 20th, between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. If you would like to help but can’t make this time frame, please contact Larry or Deb Gaster at 419-841-3724. If you would like to contribute to this outreach program, please make your check payable to St. Joseph Social Outreach.
Neighbors Serving Neighbors Toiletry Collection Weekend, June 23/24 While shopping for your own toiletries, why not throw in a couple more to help our neighbors? Thank you for your generosity!
Blest Art will be visiting our parish on behalf of the Christian families in Bethlehem, Palestine. Our mission is to support those families in the Holy Land. When Blest Art visits our parish, they will have hand-carved nativity sets, statues, crosses, rosaries, and many other pieces of beautiful olive wood art. They gladly accept cash, checks, and all major credit cards. Please visit their display Saturday & Sunday, June 16th, and 17th after each Mass.
St. Joseph’s Respect Life Ministry’s 2018 Mother’s Day Baby Bottle Campaign! Respect Life Mother’s Day Baby Bottle Campaign began Mother’s Day weekend, May 12th and 13th. The donations, as in the past, go to support Heartbeat and The Pregnancy Center who support women with unplanned pregnancies. These organizations offer pregnancy tests, ultrasound, support, counseling, and education to assist mothers, fathers, and their babies. Please fill the bottles with cash and checks. The bottles can be brought back anytime between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day weekend. There will be a box in the back of the church to put the bottles in or you may take them to the Parish Center. Thank you in advance for your continued support of mothers and their babies.
Body Better Exercise Class for Seniors meets each Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. in the East Campus Meeting Rooms. You can call Laurie Neary, Parish Nurse with questions: (T, W, TH) at 419-885-5791 or email lneary@stjoesylvania.org.
Students Recycle for the Ronald McDonald House Summer is still time to save those pop tabs! Students and parishioners are encouraged to turn in all donations of pop tabs to the main office on either school campus throughout the school year. Every year, hundreds of pounds of pop tabs are collected by students which helps keep the pantry stocked at the Ronald McDonald House for families who travel to Toledo for their children’s medical care. Thank you for your support of the schoolwide service project!
From the Office of Youth Catechesis and Formation… Religious Education registration for the 2018-2019 year has begun! Please go to the St. Joseph website and it can all be done online… https://www.stjoesylvania.org/_modules/form.php?id=26 This is for children in 1st thru 8th grade, and if you are registering for Religious Education, it is in anticipation of the school year they are going into for fall 2018. If they are currently a Kindergartner, they will be registered for a 1st-grade program. Please remember that if your children would like to play CYO sports, they must either attend a Catholic school or attend a Religious Education program. Let’s give our kids the foundation of our faith that they deserve! Register today! For questions, please contact Mrs. Rachael Hunyor at rhunyor@ stjoesylvania.org or, Mrs. Debbie Lisk at dlisk@stjoesylvania.org, or call 419-885-2181.
You are invited on Thursday, June 21st from 5:00-8:00 p.m. to support the Catholic Club by attending our Twylite Thursday friendraiser at the Pinnacle in Maumee. Your $10.00 cover charge provides a $5.00 donation to the Catholic Club, Sounds of Music entertainment, food, and a cash bar. This is an outdoor event but will be moved inside to the airconditioned hall for rain or extreme heat. For more information, go to www.CatholicClub.org or call 419-243-7255.
Donations & Volunteers Needed! Helping Hands of St. Louis 5th Annual Shoe Fest – Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018 Helping Hands of St. Louis, a ministry of Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo, seeks donations of NEW shoes and socks, (toddler size 10 up to youth size 8), and school supplies to start their new school year off on the right foot! Needed school supplies include: paper, pencils, pens, markers, crayons, glue sticks, dry erase markers and backpacks. Donations can be dropped off at the 2nd fl oor Helping Hands Offi ce, 443 Sixth Street, Toledo, OH, preferably by Thursday, August 3 for sorting, though they will be gratefully received through Friday, August 10. Please clearly mark donations are for the Shoe Fest. Churches, service groups and businesses interested in donating items are asked to please contact Sue Shrewsbery, Director of Helping Hands of St. Louis, at 419-691-0613, ext. 2; email sshrewsbery@toledodiocese.org. Volunteers are needed to set up the event on Friday, August 10, from 1:00-3:00 p.m., and during the Shoe Fest on Saturday, August 11, from 7:30 a.m.-Noon. This is a great youth ministry opportunity for middle school and high school kids and families to serve together. We need volunteers to wash feet, change water, hand out shoes, socks and school supplies, run the games and help with registration. Contact Byron Wynn, Catholic Charities Volunteer Coordinator, at 419-214-4950 or bwynn@toledodiocese.org. Come and be a part of this exciting and rewarding event! When we give the children a new pair of shoes, we wash their feet and tell them Jesus loves them. The smiles of the children and parents bless all of the volunteers. Thank you in advance for your generosity and support of Catholic Charities ministries !
