The Center for the Works of Mercy is dedicated to providing free service to the poor in order to help restore and foster their dignity.  The Center is a Catholic charitable organization and adheres to the principles and teachings of the Catholic Church.  STC does not discriminate on race, creed, or religion in the services it provides.  St. Teresa of Calcutta Center for the Works of Mercy labors so that no one may go to bed hungry as a result of poverty in our locale.  We are inspired and driven by the words of Jesus in the Gospel:
 
‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’ Matthew 25: 34-36
 
St. Teresa Center for the Works of Mercy operates a food pantry, a soup kitchen, hosts an Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, hosts a women’s Bible study, operates a lending library for the poor, has a Bonne Mort Society to bury the indigent, and has sober living houses for men and women.  In 2020 St. Teresa Center distributed over 98 tons of groceries to some 450 needy families and served over 15,000 hot meals.  St. Teresa Center has gradually expanded its activities to include in some fashion all of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. 

 

 

STC acquired a building in 2019 for a Youth Center for at risk youth (Oratory of Don Bosco) as well as a program for teaching a trade to young men and putting men back to work (St. Joseph the Worker). A two-week camp for youth was held in July 2019 with 65 youth participating and has been held each summer. A tutorial program began at our Oratory in September 2019 for after school assistance to youth and Bosco Nights are held every Wednesday evening for Bible teaching, recreation, and vocational training. Also in 2019, St. Teresa Center for the Works of Mercy acquired a house which was opened March 19, 2020 as Guadalupe Sober Living Home for Men. The house presently is full with 8 residents and over 45 men have been helped since its opening.  In October 2021 STC opened John XXIII House for Women which is the sister home to Guadalupe House.  Camp Good Shepherd for at-risk youth is developing and was blessed by Bishop Deshotel on May 7. See a brief video of its progress Oratory Don Bosco 

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St. Teresa Center for the Works of Mercy operates a food pantry, a soup kitchen, hosts an Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, hosts a women’s Bible study, operates a lending library for the poor, has a Bonne Mort Society to bury the indigent, and has sober living houses for men and women.  In 2020 St. Teresa Center distributed over 98 tons of groceries to some 450 needy families and served over 15,000 hot meals.  St. Teresa Center has gradually expanded its activities to include in some fashion all of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.