St. Jude Community Center
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St. Jude Community Center offers a variety of services and activities to assist the neighborhood. The center is one outreach of Our Lady of Guadelupe Church, New Orleans. Permission has been given by all the homeless persons who appear in the following photograph.
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A wreath, a few ornaments and a friendly word of cheery welcome greeted all guests for Christmas gumbo.
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Sr. Mary Beth Mouch, Director of the St. Jude Community Center, stops for the pause that refreshes before the doors are opened to the homeless for lunch. The center serves breakfast and lunch on weekdays; houses homeless working women; provides adult basic education; works with Second Harvest Food Bank to distibute food; houses volunteers staying in the city to help re-build post-Katrina; collaborates with Responsibility House in serving addicts, and so much more.
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Sisters Beth Mouch and Joyce Hanks dish up bowls and bowls of gumbo served at St. Jude Community Center on Christmas Day.
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Coats and hats bear witness to the weather as the room fills with guests to share a meal. On an average day the center serves 200 hot meals. Over 5,000 boxes of food are distributed each month. Currently 10 adults are enrolled in the basic education program.
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...serving up hot gumbo on a cold day brings cheer to those being served and those who serve in Jesus' name. Here is the true meaning of Christmas!!!
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"God is good all the time. All the time God is good," repeats one guest.
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Thanks for a warm place, a good meal and people to share it with. You can help by calling Sr. Beth at 504- 931-6993.
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When asked to give an opinion on the gumbo, you can see the response - big smiles and a ready thumbs up!
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Tables of the homeless gathered for the noon meal served at St. Jude Community Center on Christmas Day.
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Generous benefactors sent 200 turkey dinners for Christmas evening accompained by boxes of fresh fruit.
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A benefactor dropped off simple gifts to be shared as folks left the center.
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Sr Beth offers a Christmas Day phone call to a loner from the streets.
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"Silver and gold, I have none. What I have I give." Acts 3:6
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