COMMUNITY SUPPER                                                           

 We host a community supper on the 4^th Thursday of most every month.  Due to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, our dinners are held on the 3^rd Thursday those months.  

 Parishioners donate 90% of the food and 100% of the manpower for these dinners.  The beginning of the year began with feeding 50 people per month but the numbers have grown steadily to our all time high in December when we fed 118 people.  Wow!  What a great ministry.  The desserts are homemade, and the menus vary and are always well received.  Ann Griffiths and Jane Mattes took over the coordination of this event but we couldn’t do it without our faithful volunteers.  If you have any interest in being a part of this ministry, please see one of them for details.

Westfed Food pantry

Jac and Linda Beth Allen coordinate this program which provides non-perishable foods to needy families in the 45211 and 45238 zip  code zones.  Food is handed out on the last two Thursdays of the month.  Westfed is supported by many churches in our neighborhood.  St. James is responsible for staffing 3 months of the year.  Donations of non-perishable foods are collected in boxes in the narthex.

Interfaith Hospitality Network

This organization provides support of various kinds to homeless families.  Greater Cincinnati’s IHN program has 25 host churches and 46 support churches as well as 44 funding churches.  Lower Price Hill serves as the Day Center for showers, free telephones etc. School age children attend school and receive after school tutoring. And other forms of support for the homeless.  St. James is a support church for the IHN program at Christ Church, Glendale.

Carol Schneider coordinates this program.

Taylor Academy

St. James provided school supplies and Christmas presents for the children attending.  Zack Cornelissen coordinated these activities.

The Ohio Benefit Bank

In 2009 St. James become a site for taking applications from people seeking help from the state of Ohio in many different areas including food, medical assistance, child care, utility bills, job searches and training, etc.  Persons seeking benefits come to St. James where their applications for assistance are electronically taken and submitted.  To date we have processed about 5 applications resulting in persons receiving food stamps, medical help and energy assistance.

Kathy Schaeffer and Deacon Ken are coordinating this activity.

Joseph House

St. James contributed 65 pairs of underwear to the 97 homeless veterans living there.  Kathy Schaeffer coordinated this effort.

Women’s Help Net

During 2009 St. James delivered 75 bundles of diapers in 6 different sizes to this ministry. Carly Schaeffer helped to coordinate this effort through the first half of the year, before leaving for college.