Over the past couple years, St Francis of Assisi has been sharing in a new county-wide effort to involve citizenry in tackling the region’s most pressing problems: affordable housing, equitable education, and jobs with livable wages. ONE Wake is about people: developing their innate skills and ability to work with each other to identify common problems, to find or create workable solutions, and to work together to implement systemic changes within society to achieve the common good. ONE Wake is a non-partisan, multi-ethnic, multi-issue group of religious congregations, associations, and other non-profits in the Wake County area with aggregate membership totaling in excess of 50,000 households. ONE Wake is a recipient of grant dollars from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development for their work of justice and advocacy for the most vulnerable. To read more about ONE Wake, go to their website: https://www.onewake.org/
Brown Bag Ministry prepares and distributes brown bag lunches every Saturday morning to a low-income senior citizen apartment community in Durham. The ministry welcomes groups and families of all ages to participate. Volunteers work together to make sandwiches, pack lunches, gather in brief communal prayer, and experience face-to-face contact with people in need.
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