Christian Service in the Community

This annual event is one of our largest events of the season! Parishioners can donate items such as gift cards, clothing, and toys for local organizations around Detroit that are in need of our services. This ministry is always looking for volunteers during the Christmas season.

Jesus walked the streets and so do we. STs Kieran/Al Traveling Street Ministry makes and provides 352 sandwiches as part of a bagged lunch with chips, cookies, and water then deliver them to the homeless and less fortunate in Detroit. Also, each week they provide a hot oatmeal breakfast, coffee, and hot chocolate. The guests are offered free clothing, hygiene products, and a mat of mercy. These essential items help them through the week, but the care, dignity, respect, and love shown to them is the best gift.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Donate Chips, Cookies, Water, or Money to buy items needed.
Sign up to donate by calling Christian Service or contact [email protected]. 

 Donate Personal Care Items
Items currently needed: shampoo, body wash, deodorant, body lotion, and toothpaste. Travel size only. Please place your donation into the decorated "Hygiene supplies for the Homeless" can located in Reception Office. 

 Macomb Charitable Foundation Annual Shoe Shopping Event 
 
 Sponsor a Family for Christmas 

 MCREST
 
 

Year Round Donations

The eyes of all look hopefully to you; you give them their food in due season. Psalm 145:15

The Agape Center 
North Macomb Vicariate Assistance Center, located at 347 S. Main St,  Romeo, Michigan provides food, financial assistance and referrals to individuals in need. St. Kieran often hosts Food Drives for the Agape Center in January and June each year!

Agape Pantry phone: 586 336-6737
             Hours:
Tuesday 9:30am to 12:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am to 12:30pm
Thursday 4pm to 7pm

St. Francis/ St. Maximilian 

 

GARDENS TO GIVE

Each spring a community garden is planted at St. Kieran's to grow and harvest produce for local food pantries. We plant vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumber, pumpkins, and more! This is a great opportunity for families looking to volunteer together. Volunteers of all ages are needed to help plant, water, weed, and harvest these vegetables during the summer. The fresh produce is shared with members of the community who battle food insecurity. Produce is donated to the Agape Center, Samaritan House, MCREST, and STs Kieran/Al Traveling Street Ministry. It is a great opportunity to feed our neighbors in need!

Volunteer to water, weed, or harvest.

"Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded"
Exodus 35:10 

Every Wednesday at 10:00am in the Blessed Solanus Casey room a group of enthusiastic parishioners gathering to knit, crochet, pray, and converse. The group makes baptismal blankets for the newly baptized infants of our parish and baby blankets/layettes for area pregnancy centers. Since the beginning of the year they have made  9 baby blankets, 12 baby hats, and 4 layettes. The atmosphere is casual and informal. This is a great opportunity to get to know others in our parish community. 

We help make durable sleeping mats for our unsheltered brothers and sisters using recycled plastic shopping bags. We make plastic yarn (plarn) and crochet it to make sleeping mats. We have made over 300 mats so far and given to the homeless and others in need of a mat to sleep on. Each mat made is accompanied with a prayer.

No experience needed, just bring a pair of scissors and used plastic shopping bags! Junior high age and older are welcome. We meet twice a month, dates and times are posted in the bulletin. (Every other Wed at 1:30PM and every other Tue at 6:30 PM in the Blessed Solanus Casey Room) The whole process can also be done at home as well. This is a great way to help our brothers and sisters in need and the environment!

The service given to the those in need is also a service to each other as we share our time and talent doing God's work.

Thank you LORD!

Contact Anne Roberts at [email protected] for more information!

For nearly 35 years, MCREST (Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team) has served and supported Macomb County’s homeless population. As the largest nonprofit homeless agency in the county, our mission is to provide homeless and displaced individuals the opportunity for successful transition to independence. In everything we do, we are guided by a core vision as a community: as a place where men, women and children experiencing the trauma of homelessness find emergency solutions and housing resources.

St. Kieran will be hosting MCREST (Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team) August 25 - September 1 2025. 

PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS: 

• Monetary donations to help with meals, housing, and transportation costs. There are three ways to donate: 

1.  Send in or drop off a donation in the Parish Office or Sunday collection basket. Checks can be made out to St. Kieran with “MCREST” in the memo line. 

2.     Follow the link to our Online Giving Portal! 
   https://www.wesharegiving.org/App/Form/35405bfc-3d8d-4fcd-a403-006ac4feddd2

• Donate quarters for laundry. Each load is $4.50.  Place your donation in the bucket on the information table in the gathering space. 

• Donate travel size personal care items. Shower gel, shampoo, deodorant, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and razors are the most requested items.  

• Volunteer – the MCREST team will be in the gathering space after Mass on the weekend of August 16/17 2025 with signup sheets for food donations and to answer any questions.   Volunteers will serve meals at the MCREST shelter in addition to other volunteer opportunities during the week. 

The MCREST Shelter address is:  215 S. Main St.  Mt. Clemens 48043 

More than 1,000 children are experiencing homelessness right now in Macomb County.  We as a church family can show each child that they matter and are loved. 

Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support of MCREST. If you have any questions, please contact Jeanne Robinson at [email protected] or (586) 781-4942 ext. 132. 

 
For more information about MCREST and their mission please visit www.mcrest.org.

 
Credit: www.mcrest.org/mission

Mission  is to respect, defend, and promote the dignity of every single human life from conception until natural death through prayer, education, and organization of opportunities to give witness to the Gospel of Life. 

Living the Gospel of Life

Understanding Church teaching on life leads to a well-formed conscience--guiding each of us toward a more faithful response to the complex life issues confronting us today.

Pray and put your faith into action

For more information (volunteering, upcoming events, donations) contact the Parish Office, or visit Lifeisapeach.org or  rtl.org  or email prolife@usccb or Mary Peleman at 586-210-6819.

Unplanned pregnancy and need assistance? Call Compassion Pregnancy Center at 586-783-9620 or text 313-666-7544. Confidential help in a safe environment is provided. Ask your questions and get real answers.


 

Prepare and serve a meal once a month at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen in Mount Clemens.

TEMPORARILY ON HOLD!

Provides home cooked meals to people who need help due to illness, surgery, etc... that hinder their ability to make home cooked meals. Volunteers are needed to work in a team to coordianate and help cook meals for our parishioners in the parishioners' homes.

Services are offered three days per week for a total of three weeks. When the final week is reached, they will determine if our community member still requires the service. 

Volunteers are required to have a background check before helping out!