Interfaith Family School

Moms and Tots Group

Partners Religious Education Program

S.P.O.K.E.S.

Adoption Group

The BluePrints Experience

Interfaith Union

S.P.O.K.E.S.

St. Pat's Opportunities for Kids to Experience Service

Inspired by Old St. Pat's Outreach Group, S.P.O.K.E.S was formed to introduce our children to outreach projects in which they can feel that they've made a difference to others. The projects are as follows:

Beth Katsaros Winter Clothing Drive

The Winter Clothing Drive supports the families of St. Agatha’s and a grade school in Cabrini-Green. Please watch The Crossroads Bulletin for details.

Outreach Gift Sort

Family Ministry volunteers will help collect, sort and wrap gifts for the Community Giving Tree.

Ronald McDonald House Pop Tab Collection

The money earned from this program goes directly towards the operating budget for the Ronald McDonald House. To date, more than 400 million pop tabs have been collected, generating $300,000. In 2004–2005, Old St. Pat’s collected more than 100,000 tabs!

Used Toy Drive and Toy Hospital

Old St. Pat’s Lenten service project will collect gently used toys for distribution to our Outreach organizations. Our Toy Hospital is responsible for cleaning, repairing, and delivering used toys. This program has been a very successful service opportunity.

If you’re interested in helping out with any of these S.P.O.K.E.S. projects or if you have other service ideas, please contact Kathy Bedward at kathy_bedward@hotmail.com or Kate Nolan at katenolan66@yahoo.com.