Outreach
Outreach
We serve our broader community in a variety of ways, through financial support as well as in-person volunteering. We provide monthly packed lunches for several community partners, prepare and serve meals for the homeless at Neighborhood Resilience Project and Bethlehem Haven, and collect groceries for the South Hills Food Pantry.
We financially support many outreach ministries through funds raised at major outreach dinners each year, and direct giving from individual parishioners.
Food Pantry Sunday
Episcopal Relief and Development
Jeremiah’s Place
SHIM – South Hills Interfaith Movement
Trinity Walk-In Ministry
Jubilee Kitchen
412 Food Rescue
Meals on Wheels at the Crossroads
Casa San Jose
Hello Neighbor
Blessed Mustard Seed Babies’ Home
Hosanna Industries
Highland Educational Project
Neighborhood Resilience Project
ARYSE
Ways to Serve
Food Pantry Sunday
St. Paul’s collects food and monetary contributions to support the South Hills Food Pantry the first Sunday of the month.
Please remember to bring your non perishable food contributions to the service of your choice. All canned, jarred (plastic please) and boxed items are appreciated. Other needed supplies are paper products and personal items (toothpaste, shampoo, etc.). Thank you very much for all your past contributions.Contributions may be placed in the food box in the Undercroft at any time.
Episcopal Relief and Development
St. Paul’s parishioners contribute each year to Episcopal Relief and Development. Episcopal Relief and Development is a highly effective and efficient global response to disaster relief using existing church networks to get immediate assistance to where it is needed, both in this country and abroad.
Episcopal Relief and Development focuses on sustainable economic development projects in areas of great need. Erin Morey serves as our parish representative.
Jeremiah’s Place
St. Paul’s supports Jeremiah’s Place, Pittsburgh’s only crisis nursery. It provides emergency care for children ages 0-6 for a few hours or a few days, based on the needs of the family. Co-founded by Eileen Sharbaugh, one of our parishioners, the primary focus at Jeremiah’s Place is to keep children safe and to provide a safe and supportive solution for families in need. Jeremiah’s Place is conveniently located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh and is staffed by trauma-informed caregivers and social workers. All services provided by Jeremiah’s Place are free, available 24 hours a day, and most importantly, judgment free.
SHIM – South Hills Interfaith Movement
St. Paul’s supports South Hills Interfaith Movement, a human services organization dedicated to providing the resources necessary for struggling families to achieve self-sufficiency. SHIM provides direct assistance such as food, clothing, and utility assistance) and a variety of family support services including financial literacy classes, an early childhood program, a summer day camp, and a family support center. St. Paul’s provides financial, in-kind, and volunteer services to SHIM.
Trinity Walk-In Ministry
St. Paul’s participates in Trinity Cathedral’s walk-in ministry, which is run by the Downtown Pittsburgh Ministerium partner church. The Walk-in Ministry serves a variety of needs for anyone who walks in seeking services. The needs presented are many: emergency food, prescription medication, shelter, transportation to medical appointments or employment, aid in applying for all manner of governmentally supported social programs, eye glasses, and more.
Anyone interested in helping this program should contact the Rev. Erin Morey.
Jubilee Kitchen
Jubilee Soup Kitchen offers a hot mid-day meal to all guests, 365 days a year, and fosters a community of respect and encouragement among guests and volunteers. The Jubilee Association was formed to address additional needs of their guests and to serve their neighborhood, especially children, in an effort to break the cycle of poverty, saving them from ever needing to utilize the Kitchen.
412 Food Rescue
412 Food Rescue was founded as a direct response to the disconnect between food waste, hunger, and environmental sustainability. Thanks to thousands of volunteer food rescue heroes, the organization’s model of food recovery and redistribution prevents perfectly good food from entering the waste stream and brings healthy food directly to people who need it.
Meals on Wheels at the Crossroads
Meals on Wheels at Donaldson’s Crossroads, Peters Township,delivers more than 35,000 hot meals to seniors every year, providing daily personal contact with each senior, and balanced, nutritional meals far below cost. More than 250 volunteers help prepare and deliver meals to seniors from Eighty Four to South Fayette, sometimes driving routes as long as 40 miles and braving the elements to reach seniors in remote locations.
Casa San Jose
Casa San Jose supports and advocates for Latino communities on issues related to local integration and self-sufficiency. Right now they are also providing bags of food staples to community members in need.
Hello Neighbor
Hello Neighbor is committed to supporting Pittsburgh’s newest neighbors, recently resettled refugee families. Recently they created the Refugee Assistance Fund in response to COVID-19, where 100% of donations go directly to recently resettled refugees to help meet immediate needs, such as paying bills, rent, and providing food and educational resources for their families.
Blessed Mustard Seed Babies’ Home
For almost a decade, St. Paul’s has provided loving support to the babies, children, teenagers, and staff of the Blessed Mustard Seed Babies’ Home in Hoima, Uganda, This project was begun by an Anglican Bishop to help meet the need of the ongoing orphan crisis there. In addition to annual trips to Uganda, St. Paul’s provides financial support to cover school fees, medical and dental care, as well as clothing, school supplies, and craft materials.
Hosanna Industries
Hosanna Industries was founded in 1990 as a faith-rooted, non-profit mission whose work involves a variety of charitable initiatives aimed at helping our impoverished neighbors. Mission workers at Hosanna Industries build and repair homes for needy households; mobilize relief workers to areas of disaster; teach and lead workshops in art and spirituality; train young people in construction skills; and lead volunteers of all ages. Hosanna relies on donations to help hundreds of needy neighbors per year. This year, specifically, with the supply chain interruptions and circumstances constantly changing due to the pandemic, Hosanna Industries is experiencing unusual increases in the costs of many of the building materials.
Highland Educational Project
The Highland Educational Project (HEP) is the Episcopal presence in McDowell County, WV, where St. Paul’s youth and adult mission trips travel each summer. St. Paul’s has partnered in ministry with HEP and Christ Episcopal Church in Bluefield, WV for many years, working together in both Bluefield and McDowell County with organizations like Five Loaves and Two Fishes food bank and Union Mission, as well as serving local residents in need.
Neighborhood Resilience Project
Neighborhood Resilience Project (NRP) is a non-profit located in the Hill District that focuses on trauma-informed community development. Their multi-layered approach to ministry includes an emergency food pantry, a clothing pantry, a backpack feeding program, a trauma response team, and a completely volunteer-run health center. St. Paul’s partners with NRP on a monthly basis providing bagged lunches for children on the first Saturday of each month, and provides gifts through our annual angel tree, and provides monthly hot meals.
ARYSE
ARYSE is the premiere out-of-school-time resource for immigrant and refugee youth. ARYSE programs currently serve youth in grades 6-12 who reside in Allegheny County, representing over 15 different countries of origin and speak 30+ different languages.
In addition to PRYSE Academy, current program offerings include an arts-focused Girls Art and Maker Group, academic and career readiness programs, After School Club and Future Planning Workshops, an advocacy and affinity group, LGBTQ+ Initiative and Queer Youth Space, and a uniquely tailored program to help recently resettled youth from Afghanistan, Empowered Afghan Youth.
Ways to Serve
Volunteer Opportunities to Serve Our Community
Sign up to help with Food Insecurity Ministries
The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Rector and Chaplain to St. Paul’s Nursery School
412-531-7153 ext. 11