MINISTRIES

Our mission at St. Patrick’s is to take the love of Christ into the world.
We do this as **we serve, celebrate, and seek together.**

WE SERVE TOGETHER

At St. Pat's, there are many opportunities to serve each other and the Lebanon community, and many of our members chip in regularly. When there is work to be done, we roll up our sleeves and get to it.

Our Lebanon Community

We serve our local community through:

volunteering at the Lebanon Food Pantry and clothing closet,
hosting families and providing meals through Family Promise of Warren County,
hosting an annual rummage sale,
providing space for Lebanon Family Montessori,
providing a free weekly Montessori-style preschool enrichment program called Good Shepherd
weekly Good Shepherd story time for children from Lebanon Family Montessori, and
providing transitional housing through Greenhouse, Inc.

Past community outreaches have also included the Homework Club, where we provided tutoring for local kids.

International Serving

We serve further afield by participating in Feed Nicaragua very year and supporting Hogar Miguel Magone, a non-profit home for children and young people in vulnerable situations in Guatemala through local nonprofit Infinite Chance.

In-reach serving (parish service)

On Sundays, we serve during worship as acolytes, lay readers, altar guild members, ushers, greeters, and tellers.

We serve by bringing flowers from our gardens, sharing food and culinary talents at Sunday morning Breakfasts & Coffee Hours, volunteering our gardening skills to maintain church grounds, and offering our musical talents.

We serve by showing up and participating in a spirit of Christ-like love and generosity — doing the hard work of tasting the chili, playing Euchre, or riding roller coasters at Kings Island together. It’s hard work, but someone’s gotta do it!

We serve by meeting regularly with fellow parishioners for ongoing support, encouragement, and edification.

We also serve each other through in-reach coordination and vestry.

We support local families experiencing hardship by providing meals, sponsoring transitional housing, hosting families, participating in the semi-annual Day of Change fundraisers, and providing Christmas baskets for the holiday season.

Contact: Pamela Bowman, Maryellen Grounds, Earl Edmonds

Hogar Miguel Magone via Infinite Chance — Hogar Miguel Magone, via Infinite Chance

We support a growing children’s home in Guatemala by providing educational opportunities. Every year we run a parking lot fundraiser during Lebanon’s Horse Carriage Parade, with all of the proceeds donated to Hogar Miguel Magone.

Contact: Danielle Weaver

We volunteer to distribute goods to local families on the first Monday of each month. We make donations throughout the year and have a food drive every Christmas to benefit the LFP.

Contact: Todd Rockstroh

LFM preschool and kindergarten classes are hosted in St. Patrick’s Brendan House.

Contact: Tina Evans

WE CELEBRATE TOGETHER

St. Patrick's is a place of celebration.

Our congregation is full of people with many gifts: artists, musicians, growers, mathematicians, teachers, healers... and cooks.

Really good cooks.

Even if food is not planned at an event, it tends to arrive anyway.

We celebrate on Sundays with hymns and an anthem sung by the choir during our musical services, and with coffee hour afterward.

We celebrate our youngest members with our Clover Patch family service every 3rd Sunday of the month at 5pm and sharing dinner together following the service.

We celebrate our youth through monthly Youth Group gatherings on 3rd Sundays (6pm) and by having youth train and serve as acolytes on Sunday mornings.

We celebrate Creation through yoga, tending the church's gardens, and the annual Animal Blessing in October.

We turn fundraising into celebration through 100,000 Welcomes, our annual parking lot fundraiser, and Mardi-Gras.

We celebrate with our neighbors through the monthly men's and women’s dinners, our Carriage Parade open house, and the Thursday Tidings newsletter.

100,000 Welcomes: Silent and live auctions and entertainment combine in our church’s biggest fundraiser — **100,000 Welcomes:** Silent and live auctions and entertainment combine in our church’s biggest fundraiser, held every year in the late spring.

Applefest: All ages come together to bake pies from scratch and sell them at Feast-n-Fall-y — **Feast & Fall-y:** In past years, all ages came together to bake pies from scratch and sell them at Feast-n-Fall-y.

Mardi Gras: A Special Fat Tuesday fundraiser for our youth group’s annual mission trip — **Mardi Gras:** In the past, we held a special Fat Tuesday fundraiser for our youth group’s annual mission trip.

WE SEEK TOGETHER

St. Patrick's is a good place to ask questions and help each other to find the answers.

Not only do we seek God during our regular and holiday worship services, but we also find many occasions for seeking the Kingdom in contemplation and prayer, in study, and in action.

We seek God's truth through talks and discussions during Lenten study, Quest, youth group, Sunday School, and Bible Study, through quiet listening during Silent Saturday and Lectio Divina, and through action via involvement in the MLK Coalition and Becoming Beloved Community.