What is the Backpack Ministry?
The Backpack Ministry serves the students and families of Third Creek Elementary School in Iredell County where 90-95 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced lunches. This began as a project for West United Methodist Church and the Prayerful Servants CLC (Christian Life Community), but the need has grown. Now this ministry has become a part of our parish Outreach program. So far, we have sixty students requesting our help.
Our goal is to have supplementary food every other week for every student who expresses a need. In communicating with the school counselor, she has told me that their “kids truly enjoy and look forward to getting support, many of them take this responsibility VERY seriously and consider this their way of helping out their family.”
We need your help to provide them with this supplementary food. In union with our Food Pantry, we list foods needed in the weekly bulletin. But we still need your help to provide this supplementary food every other week.
Our costs are approximately $10 per bag. With the growing needs and the expansion of the ministry, we are in need of donations. If you would like to help support the backpack ministry, instead of having collections boxes, there will be envelopes marked "Backpack" at the doors of the Church. Please use these for your donations of cash, checks (made out to St.Therese with "Backpack" in the memo), or gift cards to Walmart or Aldi's. Please place the envelopes in the regular collections.
Anticipating your generosity, thank you for helping feed these families!
If you would like more information, please send an email to meader3@gmail.com.
Food Pantry
St. Therese Food Pantry Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide food to parishioners of St. Therese and to residents living in a designated service area who are dealing with unexpected catastrophic financial circumstances.
This assistance is intended to provide nonperishable food and basic necessities to bridge the gap until financial recovery takes place or until such time as other assistance can be established.
Assistance is available to all parishioners of St. Therese and residents residing in Iredell County zip codes: Mooresville 28115 and 28117, Mt. Mourne 28123 and 28125 and Troutman 28166.
For questions or assistance, please contact the Parish Office 704-664-3992.
Food Pantry Schedule
The Food Pantry will be Closed until further notice.
The Mooresville Soup Kitchen is now feednc (Food, Education, Essentials, Dignity) and, at the time of this writing, is open for pick ups only.
Please contact them for more information.
704-660-9010 275 South Broad Street, Mooresville
https://www.feednc.org/feedncpantry
Mooresville Christian Mission
Please contact them for more information:
704-664-2357 266 N. Broad Street, Mooresville
https://www.mooresvillelakenormanchristianmission.org
For Help finding the appropriate resource:
DIAL 2-1-1 or go to https://www.nc211.org and
click on the services you need to find help in your area
United Way Mooresville/Lake Norman SERVICES a 5-county area
As most places are working on a limited schedule. Please make sure to call ahead for details.
**Please Click the “Community Resources” brochure in the Documents section for local resources.**
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
There are some of our parishioners that might need a bit of help during these challenging times. Some may be in need of a check in call or a meal or have groceries picked up.
If you are in need of some help, please let us know by clicking here and completing the Support Needed form.
If you can offer support, please click here to go to the Support Your Neighbor page.