Community Outreach
A healthy parish must always have a missionary spirit, extending its love beyond its walls and the needs of its own members. Assumption has been an active participant in HELP ministries, which provides a number of different programs to aid the poor and homeless. Assumption has supported relief efforts in Haiti and has worked in partnership with the Catholic prison ministry. Our Young Adults Group participates in service projects on a regular basis. In addition to our institutional commitments, many members volunteer with various charities and service organizations around town. They invite you to join them. Listed on this webpage are some of the outreach programs recommended by our parishioners.
Photos: Holiday Mail for Heroes - November 25, 2009
Blessing of Holiday Greeting Cards at Thanksgiving Day Mass. Assumption parishioners are writing notes of thanks and sending cards to service personnel and to military veterans who will be in military hospitals at Christmas time, as part of Pitney-Bowes/American Red Cross "Holiday Mail for Heroes Program."
Thanksgiving Day Blessing Of Christmas Cards
Heavenly Father, on this day of feasting, family, and togetherness, we ask you to watch over and protect those who are far from family and home this holiday season. We ask you to extend your compassionate care to our service men and women, to our veterans, and to their families, who through sacrifices past and present enable us today to enjoy the fruits of this earth in such abundance and use your many gifts in freedom. We ask you now to bless ( ) these greeting cards intended for our service personnel and our veterans who will be spending Christmas in far-away places and in military hospitals and veterans hospitals throughout our land. Protect us from insincerity as we write these cards and all the cards we write at Christmas. May every greeting we send be signed with love, friendship, prayer, and gratitude. May our celebration of Thanksgiving this day become a way of life for us every day. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Photos: HELP Hats for Homeless - December 15, 2009
Assumption parishioners donated hats for the needy and homeless this winter.
1: Jacqueline Hayes, Founder of HELP, and Fr. Chamblain sort through the more than 500 knit hats donated by parishioners for the needy and homeless this winter. [Photo Credit: Fr. David O. Brown]
2: Ms. Hayes and Father Chamblain select dates for the 2010 Assumption Parish sponsored meals for the homeless and disadvantaged for the HELP Program of Hull House served at the facilities of Catholic Charities. [Photo Credit: Fr. David O. Brown]
Photos: Assumption Parishioners Collect Soccer Balls
Assumption parishioners have been collecting soccer balls to support the good will efforts of one of their own, U.S. Army Captain Joseph Himpelmann, who was married at Assumption in 2006 and is now serving in Iraq. He is part of a task force that seeks not only to clear neighborhoods of enemy activity but to work with neighborhood kids, providing them with recreational activities and encouraging them to help keep their neighborhoods clean and tidy. Soccer ball diplomacy is helping change young Iraqis' attitudes toward Americans.
1: Soccer Balls Donated by Asumption Church are given out in the Christian area. [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
2: The pink one for an Iraqi Girl. [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
3: They love to have their pictures taken and so does CPT Joe. [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
4: More satisfied children receive the soccer balls from Assumption. CPT Joe hands them out. [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
5: Soccer Ball distribution in front of a Christian Church in a very small village. [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
6: CPT Joe with an Iraqi young man with his new soccer ball. [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
7: Old Assyrian Christian Church in Tal Keyf [Photo Credit: Mary Ann Holan]
Photos: Dignity Dinner - June 16, 2009
Assumption Young Adults prepare and serve a meal to the needy at Holy Covenant Methodist Church on June 16, 2009.
1: Young adults serving a meal to the needy. [Photo Credit: Jeff Stewart]
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5: Young adults serving a meal to the needy. [Photo Credit: Jeff Stewart]