St. Norbert Parish
Saint Norbert Outreach
We believe that outreach starts with building relationships in our community. By building relationships, we aim to empower others to glorify God while serving.
Financial Support
There are times when people go through great distress and need financial support to live. To share Christ’s merciful love, we help those having trouble paying their utility, rent, telephone, or food expenses. We will take donations through the Outreach Ministry fund and use it to pay the landlord or utility company directly.
Donate by Check: (In the check memo line write: “Outreach”)
St. Norbert Parish
6 Green Lawn Road
Paoli, PA 19301
Saint Norbert Food Pantry
Volunteers help pick up food from local supermarkets, sort the food and distribute it to families and shelters in the area. Serving times are on Thursdays from 8am to 12:30pm in the Oratory.
- Donate any nonperishable food. This includes peanut butter, jelly, pasta, spaghetti sauce, tuna cans, beans, rice, cereal, soup, etc.
- Drop off the food in the Outreach closet, on the left side of the narthex. Place in the shelves to the right.
- If you are interested in helping out each Thursday with the actual food distribution, please contact Lisa Nishikawa at Lisaynish@gmail.com | 610-883-6165.
- Give a donation: Make the check out to St. Norbert Parish and in the check memo line write: Food Program.
Bethesda Project
Help feed, clothe and serve those in our Bethesda Project homeless shelters in Philadelphia. Here is how you can help:
- Food: Pick up 9 1/2 X 11-inch tin foil casserole pans in the Narthex Outreach Closet and take home. Make a casserole, place the lid on the top, mark the contents and the date. Recipes are there. Freeze immediately and take them to the Bethesda freezer. The Bethesda freezer is in the mechanical room, adjacent to the men’s bathroom off the Church narthex.
- Make a monetary donation: Make the check out to St. Norbert Parish and in the check memo line write Bethesda Project. Either place it in the collection at Mass or Mail it to St. Norbert Parish – 6 Green lawn Road, Paoli, PA 19301
Caring for Friends
Help prepare individual meals for the homebound. How can you serve?:
Please pick up some individual tin foil meal containers found in the Narthex Outreach Closet. Take them home and fill them with a meat/fish, vegetable, and a potato/rice. Freeze them in your freezer and return frozen to the Caring for Friends freezer. The freezer is in the mechanical room, adjacent to the men’s bathroom off the Church narthex. Click the button below to learn more.
Helping Hands
Donate your time to provide visits, meals and rides or other support services to St. Norbert parishioners with varied needs.
How to serve?
- Help someone get to Mass, Medical Appointments or to the grocery store
- Visit or call homebound parishioners
- Help with an activity at Daylesford Crossing Assisted Living
To serve in this ministry, please call the parish office or fill out the form below
Global Missions
We are called to go to the ends of the earth. By working with global partners, we aim to extend our love and service to the farthest reaches of our world. Our church community has had the privilege of going on Medical Mission Trips to the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Saint Norbert partners with One World Surgery to ensure a safe and excellent Christ Centered mission.