AGAPE MINISTRY
Agape continues to provide assistance to needy families and homeless people in 7 northeast San Antonio zip codes: 78209, 78217, 78218, 78219, 78233, 78239 and 78244. Twenty-seven churches in this area support this ministry.
St. David’s provides financial, food and clothing support throughout the year. The church apportions $150 a month to Agape, provides food from our Hunger Wall and special food drives and clothing from the Donation Box. Three St. David’s volunteers contributed over 400 hours of volunteer time. The youth trick or treated for Agape throughout Terrell Hills collecting over 600 cans for Halloween 2008.
With the exception of the Executive Director, Nancy Stephens, and Office Manager positions, the work of the Agape is performed by 100+ volunteers. New volunteers are always needed. Anyone who is interested is encouraged to visit Agape at 127 Lanark. Hours are 10:00 – 12:00 and 2:00 – 4:00, Monday – Friday. For more information, call the Executive Director at 590-6655 or see the St. David’s Agape Board Representative, Gordon Sommers.
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Good Samaritan Community Services
Each year St. David's reaches out to Good Samaritan Community Services in San Antonio in a variety of ways. Our Hunger Wall groceries are taken to Good Samaritan Center every other month with many hundreds of items donated each year. All funds raised through Lenten Bread Sales are sent to Good Samaritan for the after school program for the children. St. David's participates in the back to school program for the children of Good Samaritan Community Services by providing boxes of crayons, bottles of glue, glue sticks, pens, pencils and rulers. Our Youth Groups helped man the Halloween carnival at the Good Samaritan Center. We have an Angel Tree at Christmas to collect one clothing gift and one toy for 25 children who might otherwise not receive gifts. In addition, we collect Christmas dinner food bags for families of Good Samaritan Center. For information about Good Samaritan Community Services see Jacki Bucci, St. David's representative.
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Habitat for Humanity
The Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical Christian non-profit housing organization working in partnership with God's people in need of simple, decent and affordable housing. Again in 2008 St. David's co-sponsored a house and worked two build dates. St. David's is committed to co-sponsoring another house and to that end each year the Father's Day offering in designated to Habitat for Humanity.
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SAMMinistry
Since 1983 San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries has operated as an interfaith ministry to help the homeless and/or others at risk by offering shelter, housing and services. Those people who use the Shelter as overnight guests are typically transients or chronically homeless who spend their time on the street. The Shelter is staffed daily with a church volunteer team who has a set night every month to assist in the registration process for "overnighters". The St. David's team volunteers the first Wednesday of every month from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Our team is always in need of volunteers both men and women, for more information about this ministry contact the church office.
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