Serve Others

Our biggest opportunity is collecting enough sack lunches to support our 1,200 sack lunch Meals of Mercy distribution every week. Sack lunch donations are needed the most. 

Help us maintain our ability to distribute sack lunches to twelve missions, churches, and organizations, every week. 

Help feed our vulnerable, hungry, and food insecure population in the Portland Metro.

Help be the Bread of Life to those we serve through our Sack Lunch Meals of Mercy outreach.

Sack Lunch & Sandwich Instructions:

To assemble sack lunches without sandwiches, please provide:

Paper lunch sack, apple sauce cup, granola bar, bag of chips, 16 oz. bottle of water, or 8oz Juice Drink pouch or pack, plastic spoon, and napkin.

To make PB&J sandwiches:

PB&J sandwiches – Place Peanut Butter on both slices of bread, then add jelly or jam (keeps bread from getting soggy). Individually wrap each sandwich in sandwich bag, place sandwiches back into the original bread wrapper and seal.

Sign up to donate here:

Sack Lunch, Sandwich and used winter clothing Drive-Through Drop-Off outside our parish school between 8:15 & 11:15am

• September 8 and 22
• October 6 and 20
• November 3 and 17
• December 1, 15, and 29
• Volunteer to help collect during October, November, and December drop-off Sundays

Join us every 4th Saturday of the month at 7:15am in the Parish Hall

We meet to prepare a hot breakfast, assemble supplies, and then head to our primary stop: “under the bridge” in Oregon City, where we serve between 30 to 50 unsheltered and vulnerable guests. Now in our 7th year, we have served over 5,000 hot breakfasts, 7,000 sack lunches and handed out 10,000 pairs of new socks, gloves and blankets.

Sign up to volunteer here:

• Volunteer Saturday, October 26
• Volunteer Saturday, November 23
• Volunteer Saturday, December 28
• Volunteer Saturday, January 25, 2025 - This place has been reserved for the OLL Confirmation Class

Mercy Teams also works with our OLL School, LO Jr. High and four area high schools to help develop service projects for youth. We work closely with the NCL (National Charity League) and NLYM (National League of Young Men) organizations. This could include projects inside the missions we serve, or projects done at home to ultimately serve our unsheltered guests. Many youth organizations have served through Mercy Teams, and hundreds upon hundreds of youth have found a path to service through our Small Acts of Mercy and Kindness.

Volunteer to Help Collect Sack Lunches during our Sunday Drive-Thru Drop-Offs through December

With donations made directly to Mercy Teams, we purchase family meals made up by Costco to serve a family of six. These meals are delivered three times a year, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas to organizations that give them directly to “food insecure families.” 

Please drop off used winter coats, jackets, winter pants or jeans, sweatshirts, blankets, and sleeping bags.

All used items donated must be suitable for someone living unsheltered, (no dress clothing), must be clean, and run through the washing machine.

Clothing donations can be dropped off in the Mercy Teams area in the parish hall, in a bin in the parish hall vestibule, or during any Sack Lunch Drop-Off.

How can you help our Adopt a Mission Teams?

Donate sack lunches, or sandwiches, or both, that we will then distribute to the Adopt a Mission teams.

You can join an existing Adopt a Mission Team by pledging support directly to that team. Click the links below to sign up.

• Martha Mercado's Ministry to the Latino Working Poor
• Rose Haven Women & Children's Center
• Salvation Army, First Christian, and Union Gospel Mission
• The Father's Heart Day Shelter, Oregon City - Adopted and donated by the Armagno Family