Thank you for always responding with such unbelievable generosity whenever we ask you to help people who are less fortunate!

A special thank you to everyone who made it possible for us to have four very successful collections which enabled us to make the following donations to three Charitable Agencies in Trenton.

We donated:

• 429 men’s, women’s and children’s hats, gloves and scarves to HomeFront which were collected during our Warm Hands/Warm Hearts collection.
  
  
• 125 Holiday cookie trays to HomeFront.  Thanks to everyone who baked the 208 dozen cookies for us which made it possible for us to assemble the cookie trays!!
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  536 cans of soup and other canned goods, and $773.00 in monetary donations to Mount Carmel Guild which were collected during our Souper-Bowl-Sunday collection weekend.
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  131 Easter baskets and $365.00 in monetary donations to Catholic Charities Emergency & Community Services which were collected during our Easter Collection weekend.

Also, a big thank you for your donations to our food pantry bin in the Church's gathering space.  

On March 15, the total 2008 YTD number of items donated was 2,849, and that total included 1,628 items for the Knights of Columbus  Easter Food basket collection.

Thanks to you, the parishioners of St. Gregory the Great who are known as the most generous and giving parish in all of Mercer County!!

Sincerely,
St. Greg's Social Concerns Ministry