Backpack Program

We were approached by Al Schmitt, Director of Community Outreach from Holy Trinity to assist in providing backpacks for Kinnaman Elementary, which is in our parish boundary. It started with a handful of helpful parishioners filling  20-25 backpacks received from the school with tortilla, canned vegetables and fruit, applesauce, peanut butter and jelly, rice, beans, soup ramen mac n cheese, tuna, cereal milk, snacks and sometimes fresh apples/oranges. We appreciate the generosity of our parish community. Since then we now fill 100-150 backpacks for Kinnaman Elementary and about 200 backpacks for Aloha Huber Elementary monthy.  There are now about 20 volunteers who come together on Tuesday and Wednesday to repackage beans, rice and snacks and fill the backpacks.

We received a grant from Legacy Hospital initiated by one of our parishioners.  Al Schmitt has for the last two years applied for a grant from the city of Beaverton that is distributed among the four churches servicing fifteen schools.

The Prayer of Mary, Mother of the Cupboard can be found here