Service Week 2023

Nov 1

Service Week 2023 - Recap

Thank you for participating in Service Week!!!

We are overjoyed and our hearts are full to see the Saint Clement community come together this on Saturday, April 29, 2023 to participate in our 18th installment of Service Day. Whether you dropped off clothing donations, made kindness cards or sack lunches, served at the prayer service, or went out into the community to serve others, we are so incredibly thankful for you. More than 200 Saint Clement parishioners served at over 15 different locations throughout Chicago. To mention a few, volunteers helped sort and repack food at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, played Bingo with Senior Citizens at Little Sisters of the Poor, and participated in many outdoor cleanup projects (and even worked joyfully through Saturday's rain!). Many other volunteers served on-site at Saint Clement, hosting projects for our PK4-5th grade students (thank you, Ms. Spicer for organizing!), serving as part of the liturgy teams, and sorting and delivering donations.

Thank you also to those who participated in at-home projects and dropped off donations! We collected:

Over 1,800 men's, women's, and children's clothing items
450 recycled textiles that will be repurposed into dish cloths
Over 200 sack lunches, puzzle books, and fleece blankets
Over 300 items donated to the Food Drive
Grand total: about 2,750 items donated!

We'd also like to say a very special thank you to staff members Martina Ricca and Natalie Bottger, as well as parishioners Dani Jachino, Rebecca Nolasco, Joe Quinn, Allie Spicer (school art teacher), and Helen Wargel. Thank you for all your work and dedication in organizing and executing this wonderful event!

Service Week truly brought our community together for the greatest good. As Mother Teresa says, that "greatest good" is that which we do for another. Thank you, Saint Clement community, for living out the call to be missionary disciples.

Below we share a few photos, and you can see more snapshots from Service Week via the slideshow here!