SJRCS Student Volunteers

The Shrine of St. Jude Regional Catholic School 7th and 8th Graders deserve a bit of praise.  Every Friday morning (8am) during the school year before the school day begins, there are a group of dedicated students who volunteer at the St. Stephen's Food Pantry.   

The student volunteers arrive early, no small feat for sleep-in lovers, to setup the food carts for the weekly Saturday morning distribution to needy families.  Under the direction of Mike Goss, the St. Stephen's Food Pantry Director, the volunteers sign-in, and insert 12 empty boxes on each food cart.  The empty boxes serve as separators for selected food items where a later group of volunteers will place the items into a paper bag.  The kids actually devised the method to fit the 12 boxes neatly onto the carts.   Where time permits, the young volunteers will place four designated food items from the pantry shelves into each of the 12 boxes on every cart.  In a rush against time before school starts, they complete the task by 8:20am and head off to class.

The following link will take you to an online photo album of the process:

 Shrine of St. Jude - Student Volunteers in Action - Feb 23, 2024