OPPORTUNITIES
BLESSING BOX
The Blessing Box was established to help those in our community who are food-insecure or just need a little extra help with the cost of groceries each month. Located by the driveway into the parking lot, the box offers an easily accessible way to drive up and obtain food items 24/7.
The box offers non-perishable items, such as boxed pasta, canned proteins, peanut butter, canned vegetables, soups, cocoa, breakfast bars, etc. We also receive bread from a local bakery and offer this in the box as well.
Food is provided by our parishioners and those in the community who like to drop off items when they can. The box is filled each weekday morning and is completely empty at the end of each day. A rotating team of parishioners take responsibility for stocking the box each day.
BLUE STAR MOTHERS
BSM is a nonprofit organization supporting mothers of deployed service members. St. Patrick's provides an ongoing outreach ministry to them to provide needed items for care packages that are then mailed to service persons.
BSM also supports local veterans by participating in community events and even sponsoring events that revolve around our local veterans.
PRAYER BLANKET MINISTRY
This ministry provides a prayer blanket for any parishioner who will have surgery, ongoing chemo, or any other serious medical procedure.
The blanket is made available during the Sunday service prior to the scheduled date so parishioners can tie a knot in the fringe of the blanket, representing an individual prayer for the recipient.
We create these blankets from donated fleece. Each blanket is cut around the edge to provide ties and a St. Patrick's patch is sewn on. Our members donate fleece and volunteer to help with the preparation. This enables us to offer a tangible symbol of our love and prayers.
OUTREACH
Whatever you do to the least of these you do to me… St. Patrick’s is involved in outreach ministries on the international, national, state and local levels. The Outreach Committee seeks to identify and address concerns, including basic human needs, social justice and evangelism. An outreach focus is offered each month based on input from our parishioners as to the organizations they feel strongly about supporting.
Currently, St. Patrick’s supports a variety of organizations, including Family Promise, A New Leaf. Turn Tulsa Pink, Blue Star Mothers, Domestic Violence Intervention Services, New Hope, Hospice of Green Country, Broken Arrow Animal Shelter, Oklahoma Blood Institute, Episcopal Relief and Development and others. Committee members meet each year to determine which projects will be supported and decides on the distribution of St. Patrick’s budgeted outreach monies.