Lebanon Community of Shalom Receives Diocesan Foundation Grant

Christmas Blessing

Lisa Williams, Director of the Lebanon Community of Shalom, received a Christmas blessing, thanks to the 2018 Deanery Poverty Grants of the Lafayette Diocesan Foundation, Inc. For the second year, the Lafayette Diocesan Foundation, Inc., has awarded the St. Alphonsus Parish ministry a $5,000 grant for the Shalom House.

The Shalom Hot Meals Program and its Kids' Sack Lunch Program will benefit from the grant. Numbers of meals served in 2018 are not yet available, but Shalom served more than 13,000 hot meals and 22,900 lunches in 2017.

Costs for hot meals range from $200 to $300 a week; costs for sack lunches are about $5,000 a week. The grant received in 2017 was used to purchase 1 week's worth of lunches for the Kids' Sack Lunch Program.

With Bishop Doherty's approval, grant funds are drawn from the Bishop Bennett Trust, Rice Bowl Fund, Reddington Fund for Aged/Poor, Cynthia L. Bouggy Memorial Fund, Gettings Family Endowment Fund and Sharing with the Poor Fund.