News & Updates

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Luke Conference, will be closing the Pantry beginning March 27, 2021. For the past year during the Covid shutdown, we have given grocery gift cards to families at our monthly distribution. Our final Gift Card Distribution took place March 26 and all food in the Pantry has been given to other local organizations to prevent our food supplies from becoming outdated.

We look forward to reopening the Pantry in the next few months and begin food distributions to needy families. In keeping with our Vincentian mission to assist those in need in our local community, our conference continues to provide financial assistance for rent, utilities and household items.

If you have questions or concerns, please call our St. Vincent de Paul line at (626) 684-2914. Thank you to all our generous parishioners for your support!

Join us! The Lightshine Choir welcomes all parishioners to join the group for a weekly virtual scripture study on Thursdays, 7:00-8:30 pm.  We will discuss the scriptures for the coming weekend via Zoom. If you would like to join the group, contact Choir Director Justin Senneff at senneffj@yahoo.com. We’ll help you get set up with Zoom technology – it’s easy! For those without computer cameras, Zoom also allows for anyone to "call" into the meeting via their regular telephone or cell phone.

St. Luke Conference Society of St. Vincent de Paul completed nine years of service at the end of September 2020. It presently has 15 Active members and 9 Associate members. Active members attend meetings twice a month, which are currently conducted by phone. Associate members help with the packaging and distribution of food which was discontinued during the imposition of the lock down.

Our Service during our fiscal year from October to September 2020 accounted for:

(1) Rental assistance and motel stays to 16 families (41 individuals).

(2) Assistance for utilities, vehicle repairs, and apartment applications to 5 families.

(3) From food drives by schools and other community organizations and donations from parishioners, we collected approximately $17,000 worth of non-perishable food goods. Supplemented by donated funds and assistance from the L.A. Regional Food Bank, between October 2019 and February 2020, we distributed food valued at $33,000 to over 75 family units each month. Due to the lock down, service has been temporarily discontinued.

(4) We distributed grocery gift cards to close to 60 families each month from May to September.

(5) Our members made 30 home visits, 2 hospital visits, 7 eldercare visits and made 62 assistance visits to members of the local homeless community.