Social Justice and Outreach (SoJO) Committee
The SoJO Committee oversees the social justice and outreach programs for the parish. Many volunteers are needed for special projects! If you are interested in this committee, you may email Michele Becker.
Social Justice and Advocacy
Our goal is to educate parishioners and raise awareness in our church and community about justice and peace concerns that relate to the social justice teachings of the Catholic Church. We do this through:
- Promoting Faithful Citizenship
- Educational programs and materials
- Bulletin notices and displays
- Promoting both feet of social justice – advocacy and charity
For more information or to volunteer, please call Michele Becker at 336-7768 or email Michele Becker.
Committee members:
Christine Whipp, Chair
Margaret Guzak, Parish Council Representative
Jayne Feldhausen, Secretary
Abbie Nordholm, Treasurer
Michele Becker, Staff Liaison
Nancy Beaudry
Lisa Milligan
Danielle Brosig
Joyce Dirschl
Pat O’Neill
Clarence Wickham.
Called to be Peacemakers and Apostles of Hope Pledge
Parish Social Justice Efforts
Local
Tree of Giving
A parish-wide Advent outreach/stewardship of sharing with local agencies and families.
Easter Food Baskets
Parish-wide Lenten outreach/stewardship of sharing with families from St. Michael & St. Anthony parishes in Neopit & Keshena on the Menominee Indian Reservation, the poorest parishes in the Diocese.
Helping Hands
Parishioners helping parishioners during difficult times with meals, transportation, errands and yard work/housekeeping as needed. For more information click here. Contct Mary Meisinger.
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Assists those in the parish that are in need of emergency funds, furniture, clothing and food. Volunteers work at the St. Vincent de Paul store. To volunteer, contact Frank Moon at 866-1555.
Emergency Funds for Families and Individuals, contact Sheila De Luca at 336-7768 or email Sheila De Luca .
Ecumenical Partnership for Housing (EPH)
Transitional housing and support for families provided by seven area churches. As a founding member, Resurrection has representation on the board of directors and provides financial support, house cleaning, yard work services, and other assistance. Needs List
Resurrection partners with the Living Justice Office of the Diocese of Green Bay and with J.O.S.H.U.A. on charity and justice projects, participating with the Holy Spirit to further the reign of God in our world. Bishop David L. Ricken has established a Diocesan Living Justice Department to oversee Catholic social justice work, and has given approval for parishes to partner with J.O.S.H.U.A. on various projects, as well as for parishioners to be individual members of J.O.S.H.U.A. Parishes as a whole may not be full contributing members of J.O.S.H.U.A. Bishop Ricken encourages Catholic and ecumenical work on social justice projects.
Food Collections
On-going for area Food Pantries; bring to church each week.
Any and all food donations are welcome. Please place items in the corresponding cupboard drawer. Food items are taken to St. Patrick’s Parish Pantry. Brown grocery bags and egg cartens can be placed in the blue St. Vincent de Paul drop-box located in the Delahaut (west) parking lot. Thank you and God bless you.
Cooking Groups at Area Homeless shelters
To volunteer contact Michele Becker or call 336-7768.
Prison Ministry
More information – Prison Ministry or Contact June Mc Cotter at 336-5175
Financial Contributions
The SoJO Committee has awarded mini-grants to many community organizations, including the Back to School Store, Family Violence Center, NEW Community Shelter, NEW Community Clinic, Howe Neighborhood Resource Center, Literacy Council, Freedom House, House of Hope and more.
Love Life Ministry
938 9th Street
Green Bay WI 54304-3439 (920) 497-1087
Peace United Methodist Church
919 Schwartz Street
Green Bay WI 54302 (920) 468-5414
National
Twinning Project- St Theresa’s, Okolona
International
Friends of Haiti Medical Mission: Financial support, medical and non-medical volunteers for mission trips, collections of medical and personal care needs. Donations may be sent to FOH, Inc., PO Box 1174, Green Bay, WI 54305. To volunteer or make inquiries, call Jackie at 920-469-0024 or write to the PO Box number. You can also communicate via the website. Especially needed are local persons who could help prepare shipping. Site: Friends of Haiti
Social Justice Efforts Beyond the Parish
St. Norbert College Peace & Justice Center
Green Bay Homeless Shelters
Ecumenical Partnership for Housing www.ephgb.org
Need List
Freedom House www.freedomhouseministries.org 920-432-4646
Needs List
Golden House www.goldenhousegb.org 920-435-0100
House of Hope 920-884-6740
Marion House www.marionhouse.org 920-496-1478
Needs List
NEW Community Shelter www.newcommunityshelter.org 920-437-3766
Needs List
Salvation Army Transitional Housing www.salvationarmy.org
St. John’s Homeless Shelter www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org 920-436-9344
Needs List
Other Opportunities to Help
Service Projects:
Looking to make a difference after college? Catholic Network of Volunteer Service (CNVS), established in 1963, is a non-profit membership organization of 200 domestic and international volunteer and lay mission programs. Currently, more than 10,000 volunteers and lay missioners serve in these short or long-term programs throughout the U.S. and in 108 other countries. Go to www.cnvs.org for more information. See also the Jesuit Volunteer Corps website at www.jesuitvolunteers.org.
Check out these wonderful articles about postive works of faith, justice and peace!
More homilies by Archbishop Oscar Romero
The Chaplet of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, Catholic Workers
Online Voice of Sojourners Magazine
Pro-life websites
Prayer for Life
Evangelium Vitae, No. 105
O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life: Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy. Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our time. Obtain for them the grace to accept that Gospel as a gift ever new, the joy of celebrating it with gratitude throughout their lives and the courage to bear witness to it resolutely, in order to build, together with all people of good will, the civilization of truth and love, to the praise and glory of God, the Creator and lover of life.
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 25 March, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, in the year 1995, the seventeenth of my Pontificate.