St. Catherine’s Church, in partnership with Martha’s Kitchen in San Jose, serves a hot meal every Monday evening in the Parish Center from 6 to 7 pm. We call it our "Community Supper". Our suppers are open to all who’d like to join us for a good meal and good company.
VOLUNTEER
If you'd like to volunteer, the committment is on Monday's from 5pm-about 8pm. You can contact Joe at 408-781-3847 or jplillig@gmail.com to sign up. (Students needing community service hours are welcome.)
Our Community Suppers at St. Catherine's are part of a non-profit interfaith project to feed the hungry in our community. We partner with Martha’s Kitchen ( http://www.marthas-kitchen.org/ ) to provide the meals. Martha's Kitchen has served over 2,500,000 meals since 1981.
Martha's Kitchen's address is 311 Willow Street, San Jose, CA 95111. 408-293-6111.
Martha’s Kitchen is on the premises of Sacred Heart Church in San Jose. They provide their own meal service on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 4-5 pm. Their mission is to “feed the hungry with dignity, no questions asked, no judgment made.”
They also serve hot meals at over 20 partner sites in Santa Clara and Merced counties.
In Morgan Hill, hot meals are served:
Every Monday at St. Catherine Church, 17400 Peak Ave. from 6-7 pm
Every Tuesday at Advent Lutheran Church, 16870 Murphy Ave. from 5-6 pm
Every Wednesday at United Methodist Church, 17175 Monterey Road from 6-7 pm
Every Thursday at Community Christian Church, 305 West Main Ave. from 6-7 pm
and Every Friday at Grace Hills Church 16970 Dewitt Avenue from 6-7pm
At St. Catherine's we have four teams of volunteers that host our weekly Community Suppers. Each team is responsible for receiving the food from the Martha's Kitchen delivery van, arranging the dining room area, preparing the food to be served, and serving it. They also clean up, of course!
Currently, becasue of COVID, we are serving our dinners "to go". We hope to return to dining room stlye service in the fall of 2022.
FOOD and OTHER DONATIONS
Our guests appreciate donations of garden produce, toiletry items, laundry soap, pet food, and new socks and underwear. To donate, you can bring these items to the back kitchen door of the parish center any Monday night between 5-7:30pm.
Becasue of COVID, our meals are "to-go" and we don't serve pitchers of water and ice tea like before. We purchase cans of sparkling water and bottled water. They're expensive, so if you'd like to drop off a donation of water, you can do so at the back kitchen door of the parish center on Monday nights from 5-7:30pm.
MONETARY DONATIONS
We so appreciate the support of our parish in this Community Supper ministry. If you'd like to make a financial contribution, visit this parish website - click on the green GIVING tab, then Giving Online, then choose the blue "offer support" button under the Community Supper photo.