Serving the Community

This annual event is one of our largest events of the season! Parishioners can donate items such as gift cards, clothing, and toys for local organizations around Detroit that are in need of our services. This ministry is always looking for volunteers during the Christmas season.

The St. Al's Sandwich Ministry makes and distributes 350 sack lunches weekly to the homeless in Detroit neighboorhoods. Please help support St. Al's by contributing to their lunches!

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Donate Chips, Cookies and Water
Sign up to donate through the Link or contact [email protected]. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E49AFAB2DA5FFC70-weekly 

Donate Personal Care Items
Items currently needed: shampoo, body wash, deodorant, body lotion, and toothpaste. Travel size only. Please place your donation into the decorated "Hygiene supplies for the Homeless" can located in Reception Office. 

Rake and Run

Shelby Clean-Up

Macomb Charitable Foundation Annual Shoe Shopping Event 

Sponsor a Family for Christmas 

Year Round Donations

The Agape Center 
North Macomb Vicariate Assistance Center, located in Romeo, Michigan. Provides food, financial assistance and referrals to individuals in need.

St. Francis/ St. Maximilian 


 

Each spring a community garden is planted at St. Kieran's to grow and harvest produce for local food pantries. We plant vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumber, pumpkins, and more! This is a great opportunity for families looking to volunteer together. Volunteers of all ages are needed to help plant, water, weed, and harvest these vegetables during the summer. The fresh produce is shared with members of the community who battle food insecurity. Produce is donated to the Agape Center, Samaritan House, MCREST, and St. Al's. It is a great opportunity to feed our neighbors in need!

"Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded"
Exodus 35:10 

Every Wednesday at 10:00am in the Blessed Solanus Casey room a group of enthusiastic parishioners gathering to knit, crochet, pray, and converse. The group makes baptismal blankets for the newly baptized infants of our parish and baby blankets/layettes for area pregnancy centers. Since the beginning of the year they have made  9 baby blankets, 12 baby hats, and 4 layettes. The atmosphere is casual and informal. This is a great opportunity to get to know others in our parish community. 

We help make durable sleeping mats for our unsheltered brothers and sisters using recycled plastic shopping bags. We make plastic yarn (plarn) and crochet it to make sleeping mats. We have made over 100 mats so far! No experience needed, just bring a pair of scissors and used plastic shopping bags! Junior high age and older are welcome. We meet twice a month, dates and times are posted in the bullitin. The whole process can also be done at home as well. This is a great way to help our brothers and sisters in need and the environment!

Contact Anne Roberts at [email protected] for more information!

For nearly 35 years, MCREST (Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team) has served and supported Macomb County’s homeless population. As the largest nonprofit homeless agency in the county, our mission is to provide homeless and displaced individuals the opportunity for successful transition to independence. In everything we do, we are guided by a core vision as a community: as a place where men, women and children experiencing the trauma of homelessness find emergency solutions and housing resources.

St. Kieran will be hosting MCREST (Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team) August 27 - September 3. 

PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS: 

• Monetary donations to help with meals, housing, and transportation costs. There are three ways to donate: 

1.  Send in or drop off a donation in the Parish Office or Sunday collection basket. Checks can be made out to St. Kieran with “MCREST” in the memo line. 

2.     Follow the link to our Online Giving Portal! 
   https://www.wesharegiving.org/App/Form/35405bfc-3d8d-4fcd-a403-006ac4feddd2

• Donate quarters for laundry. Each load is $4.50.  Place your donation in the bucket on the information table in the gathering space. 

• Donate travel size personal care items. Shower gel, shampoo, deodorant, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and razors are the most requested items.  

• Volunteer – the MCREST team will be in the gathering space after Mass on the weekend of August 19/20 with signup sheets for food donations and to answer any questions.   Volunteers will serve meals at the MCREST shelter in addition to other volunteer opportunities during the week. 

The MCREST Shelter address is:  215 S. Main St.  Mt. Clemens 48043 

More than 1,000 children are experiencing homelessness right now in Macomb County.  We as a church family can show each child that they matter and are loved. 

Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support of MCREST. If you have any questions, please contact Laura at [email protected] or (586) 781-4942 ext. 132. 

 
For more information about MCREST and their mission please visit www.mcrest.org.

 
Credit: www.mcrest.org/mission

The mission of the St. Kieran Respect Life Ministry is to respect, defend, and promote the dignity of every single human life from conception until natural death through prayer, education, and organization of opportunities to give witness to the Gospel of Life. 

Respect Life Ministry also works with Hooks, Needles, & Prayers to provide baby items to local pregnancy centers. Since the beginning of the year they have made 9 baby blankets, 12 baby hats, and 4 layettes.

For more information pertaining to volunteering opportunites, events, or donations, visit Lifeisapeach.org, rtl.org, email [email protected] or contact Mary Peleman at (586) 210-6819. 

Prepare and serve a meal once a month at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen in Mount Clemens.

TEMPORARILY ON HOLD!

Provides home cooked meals to people who need help due to illness, surgery, etc... that hinder their ability to make home cooked meals. Volunteers are needed to work in a team to coordianate and help cook meals for our parishioners in the parishioners' homes.

Services are offered three days per week for a total of three weeks. When the final week is reached, they will determine if our community member still requires the service. 

Volunteers are required to have a background check before helping out!