Fundraising

Our long-standing Gift Giving drive at Advent will happen this year in spite of COVID!
The Gift Drive begins the weekend of November 7-8th.
Index cards will be available in the pews at each Mass this weekend requesting gift cards in different denominations that will be given to a number of shelters that serve homeless families, low-income women and their children, and several agencies serving the Deaf.  
Please choose any amount and number of index cards and return them at any Sacred Heart Mass. Gift cards including the index card should be enclosed in an envelope and dropped off in designated touch-free baskets in the back of the church from now until December 6th.  
Index cards will be replaced at all Masses each week until they are gone. 
For those who cannot attend Mass, please send in your donation or gift cards in the amount of $25 and up to Target, Walmart, CVS, Stop and Shop or Walgreens to Sacred Heart Rectory office by Dec 6.  All gift cards will be distributed among the agencies. 

Thank you for your kindness in these challenging times. 
 

PLEASE VISIT OUR 2020 Online Giving Tree: Christmas Meals and Gifts 

It’s going to be a difficult Christmas for a lot of families in Newton, and we will be grateful for your help to make it a bit easier. Thank you for your willingness to share your resources with our neighbors in need!

For Christmas Meals:

Donors are asked to purchase Stop & Shop food cards, depending on how large a family they’d like to support, and to return them to Our Lady’s Parish Office no later than Friday December 11th. As the office is currently closed please leave card in the AFTER HOURS mailbox, located by the staff entrance door (this door is to the left of the parish office door down a short alley) you can leave cards in this dropbox anytime, it will be emptied every morning.

For Christmas Gifts:

Please note that gifts for Mass Coalition for the Homeless and the Residents of Genesis II must be returned no later than SUNDAY DECEMBER 6th. These cards can be Amazon, Target or Walmart cards. Please write on envelope which organization your card is intended for.

Gifts for the "Families we Know"  which are listed with gender and age of child. should be placed in an envelope and clearly marked with the FAMILY # on the outside of the envelope. The family number is listed in the comments. Feel free to include a Christmas Card or decorate the envelope. These can be Amazon, Target, Walmart, Visa or Mastercard cards. If a child stated a preference of type of card it is stated in the listing otherwise just choose any you prefer. If you choose to sponsor a family you should be purchasing one $25 dollar card per child. These cards are due by FRIDAY DECEMBER 11th.  Family gift envelopes should also be left in the After Hours Drop Box -see location listed above under meals.

This outreach is being coordinated and provided by the parish, in conjunction with the Saint Vincent de Paul Society and Our Lady's Christian Service Committee.

We'll be selling our delicious Honduras coffee from our sister parish, San Marcos, the weekend of December 5-6, after the 4pm, 10am, and 6pm Masses. We'll be out front by the Blessed Mother statue at 4:45, 10:45, and 6:45. Be sure to order ahead; the coffee makes great Christmas gifts! You can order here, and your coffee bags will be ready for you when you come. Or you can order by contacting barbara.allaire@gmail.com, with your name, email, number of bags of whole or ground, cell phone number, and when you expect to pick up your order. Thanks for supporting the coffee farmers!
[Sioux: the link for the coffee order form is this: 

Buy Honduras Coffee

There will be a “mini–mini” curbside pickup Holly Harvest!

“Shop local” - Shop Small Business” - “Support Parish”  

SHOP SAFELY!

Please follow QR code to find the online order form for the MMHHF

 
Things you can order and pick up:

•  Loaded Christmas ‘cheer’ basket

•  Knit woolen cowl

•  Christmas themed masks

•  Baklava

•  Chocolate chip cookies

•  Jams, Preserves

  BRING EXTRA MONEY for the “WHILE YOU WAIT TABLE (Surprise Items for Purchase!)

  Pick up will be on 

  December 12th from 11:15am -2:00pm and
  December13th from 10:00 - 2:00pm

  at the MacKenzie Center.

  We all wish we could host the Real Holly Harvest..... hopefully next year we will be together!