Family Fellowship

It takes a village! Our children are valued members of our community of faith, and we want to make sure they feel welcomed and encouraged to make friends old and young. There’s no better time to be had in NYC on a Friday evening than right here at St. James’!

Movies, bingo, Casino night, Lego building, and service projects…fun for the whole family! We are continuing our service projects by Reaching Out to Our Neighbors. Each Family Friday we will: make 150-200 sandwiches to be taken that evening by one of our families to New York Common Pantry, assemble toiletry kits for our meal program guests, and make cards for our Christmas and Easter Pastoral Luncheon guests and for our Pastoral Visitors to take to our home bound and hospitalized parishioners. Dates are TBD.

There are a few ways you and your family can help our homeless neighbors and those struggling with food insecurity:

• Sign up to bake or donate desserts to our meals served on Tuesday mornings and Friday evenings.
• Donate travel-sized toiletries, and/or help us assemble toiletry kits at the new Samaritan’s Closet, a free clothing resource that we have launched in partnership with Madison Ave Presbyterian Church.
• Sign up to help prepare dinner once a month for the residents of the Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter’s 81^st St residence.

Food Pantry at St. James’ Fordham  Help to assemble and/or distribute bags of food at St. James Church, Fordham, an Episcopal Church in the Bronx (Jerome Ave. and 190th St.). While our grocery bags are currently “grab-n-go”, this inter-generational service opportunity transforms the church building into a grocery store, so low income families can “shop” with joy and dignity.

Please contact Co’Relous Bryant to learn more, or to get involved in these or other helping ministries. Service is part of how we put our faith into action—if your family has a longing or an idea for a new way we might care for our neighbors, our community or our world, please reach out!