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We are looking for a volunteer for a very flexible, easy role on our Community Meal team.  Ten months a year, OLG puts on a free meal for our community.  We need a volunteer to help post flyers at designated spots in the West Seattle/White Center area prior to the meal each month.  This can be done on your schedule and usually takes about an hour.  Bonus: this counts for school volunteer hours if you need them!  Contact Jennifer for more information: jibach@olgseattle.org or 206-935-0358 x.120. 

Did you miss the Catholic Relief Services Ethical Trade Sale?   You’re in luck because there are still many great items left!  Check them out in the Parish Office! Ethical Trade seeks to change the ways in which conventional trade often leaves behind the most vulnerable people. By buying Ethical Trade, you support the efforts of skilled farmers and artisans working to break the cycle of poverty and to build stronger communities.  Proceeds go to Catholic Relief Services and OLG’s efforts to bring Fair Trade coffee and tea to our events.  

OLG makes kits to hand out to those in need you encounter on the streets.  We are currently collecting items for our kits.  Please consider click above for a list of needed items. Feel free to take kits from the church or parish office to hand out as well! 

Your voice makes a difference. Raise it today!  Right now, your members of Congress are evaluating the funding levels for critical accounts in the FY19 budget that support migrants and refugees around the world. The U.S. Catholic Bishops oppose cuts to foreign aid and want to ensure that Congress is funding these lifesaving programs at the highest levels possible. Send a pre-written, editable action alert by clicking above.

How do we dialogue in this present time of a deeply polarized society? The Life, Peace and Justice Commission would like to begin a learning process to develop dialogue around issues which the Gospel calls upon us to address but which so often lead to a fruitless polarization rather than a "credible witness to a reconciled life."  We invite you to take a brief survey to select issues which you would like to enter into a dialogue about with those who do not necessarily share your view. Click above to access the survey.

Put together a fun assortment of items to be delivered to isolated adults in King County that are served by CCS Volunteer Chore Ministries. Bring your box/bag back on our Feast Day Weekend (December 1-2) for a special blessing. Click here for more information.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently passed The Protecting Girls’ Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act out of committee and it needs your voice to pass in the Senate!  Children who are refugees have witnessed violence and lost homes or loved ones.  Most have been out of school for years.  Education is essential to building hope for the future and healing trauma. Click above for a pre-written, editable action alert.

You are invited to gather at St. James Cathedral (910 Marion St., Seattle) on Thursday, November 8 at 5:30pm for a special Mass in memory of the men and women who died on the streets, in shelters or hospitals, or by violence in our community this past year. Please join to honor their memory, to celebrate their lives, and to pray for them. A Simple reception will follow. All are welcome to bring winter hats, gloves, and scarves to be distributed to those in need.

Highlighting the sacredness of human life, the Catholic Bishops of Washington State issued a statement today endorsing Initiative 1639 on gun violence prevention.  The Bishops acknowledged the importance of individual liberties such as gun ownership, while pointing out that the U.S. Catholic Church has long supported reasonable measures to ensure a higher level of public safety.  Click above for more details.

Right now, your members of Congress are evaluating the funding levels for critical accounts in the FY19 budget that support migrants and refugees around the world. The U.S. Catholic Bishops oppose cuts to foreign aid and want to ensure that Congress is funding these lifesaving programs at the highest levels possible.  Your voice makes a difference. Raise it today!  Click above for a pre-written, editable message.

One of OLG’s RSVP groups has been working with the non-profit ‘Communities in School’ on site at Denny International Middle School over the past 4 years. The program is starting a new initiative to provide workshops for parents and students.  Do you have a special skill or interest you could share with a diverse group of parents?  This onetime, 2 hour-commitment will be held sometime in the coming months on a date that works for your schedule. Click above for more details.  

As part of our recent Youth Migrant Project trip, OLG teens collected donations for migrant families in the Skagit Valley.  One recipient, Catholic Community Services’ Farmworker Center asked us to thank the OLG community, saying, “Please give our warmest appreciation to the entire community; especially the youth…[T]hank you for your generous support of the work that the CCS Farmworker Center is doing here in Skagit Valley.  We could not do the work we are doing without the support of parishes around the Archdiocese.  May God continue to bless abundantly the faith community at Our Lady of Guadalupe.” 

Each Lent, parishes across the Archdiocese participate in Catholic Relief Services’ Rice Bowl program.  This year, through the generosity of parishioners like you, the Archdiocese collected over $550,000!  This is the highest donation total ever for our Archdiocese and one of the largest in the country!  75% goes to CRS’ life-saving programs overseas while 25% (over $137,500) will be distributed to hunger-alleviation programs in our area.  Over 280 grants were given out locally in 2018, including two for our parish garden and meal program. Click above to learn more.

This Sunday, October 14, Blessed Oscar Romero will be canonized a saint alongside Pope Paul VI.  He is the first saint from El Salvador.  Learn more about his life and the current reality in El Salvador by clicking above.

In 2016, Fr. Jack and a delegation of OLG parishioners volunteered at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, TX.  This Center, run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, ministers to asylum seekers from Central America.  They are currently 1 of 4 sites receiving immigrant refugee families that are being reunified after separation at the border.  They have received hundreds of families and are in need of assistance for expenses to bring loving care to these children and parents. Click above for more details.

Franco was born in the Congo and acted as the middleman for people selling gold. Franco's manager and others broke into his home and used a machete to cut his left hand and scrape the right side of his face. They told Franco to give them all his belongings and then burned his house to the ground. Franco and his family fled to a refugee camp in Uganda where he applied for refugee status. He now works at the Nashville Zoo to support his daughters. Click above to learn more.

With wind speeds of 160 miles per hour and gusts up to 200 miles per hour, Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall on the coast of the northern Philippines, displacing over 100,000 people. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is assessing needs, ready to provide lifesaving assistance for families and will be distributing food and shelter, water and hygiene kits.  Visit www.crs.org to help our brothers and sisters in need.

Each Lent, parishes across the Archdiocese participate in Catholic Relief Services’ Rice Bowl program.  This year, through the generosity of parishioners like you, the Archdiocese collected over $550,000!  This is the highest donation total ever for our Archdiocese and one of the largest in the country!  75% goes to CRS’ life-saving programs overseas while 25% (over $137,500) will be distributed to hunger-alleviation programs in our area.  Over 280 grants were given out locally in 2018, including two for our parish garden and meal program.

The Global Food Security Act (GFSA) is up for reauthorization.  It has passed the U.S. Senate so it’s time to urge the House to do the same so we can prevent hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Click above for a pre-written, editable message from Catholic Relief Services.

The OLG Immigrant Ministry is here to help. We’ve pulled together a list of things anyone can do to support our immigrant neighbors. You can learn, pray, act and give -- and connect with others who are working for justice and peace. Choose a step and start today! Click above to access our new "Refugee and Immigrant Solidarity Opportunities" document.