This month is dedicated to gratitude. So thankful for the many people who gave their talents (or treasure) to make our Thanksgiving Basket distribution a success! We are grateful to the many veterans and active service members in our parish. This month, we also remembered those who have gone before us by placing flags at their gravesites at Woodbine. And finally, we are appreciative of our new monthly service opportunity at L'Arche. It's a great way to connect with God's creation and work alongside members of a wonderful community. As we sit down to our own Thanksgiving feasts this week, let us remember the actions of St. Margaret, who always made sure to feed the hungry before herself. St. Margaret, pray for us!

Food Bank

Neighbors served - 210

Households served - 90

Backpack Program

students served - 760

Each year, All Saints Delivery Food Bank prepares special Thanksgiving meal baskets for our clients. Thanks to your support, we were able to serve 80 families this year.

Thank you to our school families for donating hundreds of cans of food to support this project! We are also so appreciative to Shirley Wagner and her Thanksgiving Angels. They provided 10 baskets and turkeys to our food bank clients as well as providing 70 more to others in our Puyallup community!

Thank you to our Columbiette's for their donation of food items for our backpack program.

Rent assistance: 24 households served

Utility assistance: 5 households served

Thank you for supporting our Giving Tree this year. Leaves can be picked up in the church vestibule beginning November 19. Please return gifts by December 2 (Meeker) and December 9 (all other gifts).

Red Leaves - Catholic Community Services Foster Care (serving kids, teens, and young adults)

Purple Leaves - Rainier Rehab (serving adults with long-term care needs) and Pioneer Court (serving adults with special needs)

Yellow Leaves - St. Francis House and Meeker Elementary (serving kids and teens)

Brown Leaves - All Saints Community Services (serving families in need)

Blue Leaves - Catholic Relief Services (serving international families in need)

Save the date for our wrapping party on Sunday, December 11 at 6 pm in the parish center.

Each month, volunteers from All Saints are welcome to join Father Val to help out at L'Arche. Our next service day will be December 3 from 10-noon. Look for the sign-up soon!

We are resuming and expanding our ministry to the local nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Fieldstone Memory care is looking for someone to lead a communion service or religious music service once a week. We are looking for an additional volunteer to help with the Julian Estates communion services every other Wednesday afternoon. Contact Morningstar if interested in learning more.

November 26-27 2022

After all Masses (Sat. 6:30 pm, Sun. 8:00 am, 10:30 am)

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Sales will support Catholic Relief Services.

As we near the end of The United Nations Climate Change Convention COP27, Catholic Relief Services continues to advocate at COP27P for what is fair. This includes the acknowledgment that the South, particularly Africa, is impacted by Climate Change more than any other continent, yet they only contribute less than 4% of the total emissions. Visit www.crs.org for more information and to see how you can help!

“With regard to climate change, the advances have been regrettably few. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility, above all on the part of those countries which are more powerful and pollute the most... International negotiations cannot make significant progress due to positions taken by countries which place their national interests above the global common good. Those who will have to suffer the consequences of what we are trying to hide will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” ~ Pope Francis, Laudato Si (Papal Encyclical)

Tired of buying stuff? Consider a gift of charity this giving season.

Catholic Relief Services

Heifer International

World Vision

The gift of a school uniform is just one of the many opportunities available in the CRS Gift Catalog. Credit: Leiva/Silverlight, Oscar

Email: morningstars@allsaintsparish.com
Website: https://allsaintsparish.com/outreach
Location: 204 6th Ave SW, Puyallup, WA, USA
Phone: (253)848-2000