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Feature: What Would You Do if you Answered the Phone? 534 712 admin

Feature: What Would You Do if you Answered the Phone?

What Would You Do if you Answered the Phone? By Jeff Beamguard, National Director of Stores Support What would you do if you answered the phone and a “Neighbor in Need” said, “I need water”?  I was stunned and asked if she could be more specific.  An elderly female voice replied, “I’m thirsty and need…

Contemplation: Unconditional 720 486 Tim Williams

Contemplation: Unconditional

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Our Rule reminds us to serve “for love alone”. [Rule, Part I, 2.2] Yet in our lives we know different types of love; the love we have for spouses, children, neighbors, and friends are not all the same. The language of…

7-23-25 Weekly Questions & Answers 150 150 Megan DeClue

7-23-25 Weekly Questions & Answers

July 23, 2025 Q: Resolution 114 says that a Conference can be “suspended” and it talks about an appeal process. But I’m not finding anything that tells us what needs to be done to suspend a Conference. For example, if a Conference refused to give us annual financial reports, according to Resolution 114 they can…

Can You Please Accommodate Me? 150 150 Megan DeClue

Can You Please Accommodate Me?

Can You Please Accommodate Me? By Robert Giers & Holly Maes Definition (Taken from Webster’s Dictionary): Disability is a physical, mental, cognitive or developmental condition that impairs, interferes with or limits a person’s ability to engage in certain tasks or actions or participate in typical daily activities and interactions. How can we make our Society…

Contemplation: Time Spent with Friends 780 480 Tim Williams

Contemplation: Time Spent with Friends

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  It’s been said that meetings are places where minutes are kept and hours are wasted, a joke with enough truth to it that anybody who has sat through a few “all hands” meetings at work, or a meeting of many civic…

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Friends of the Poor Grant Award Winners 2025 – Round 2

Congratulations to the Friends of the Poor Grant Award Winners of the Mid-Atlantic, North Central, and Southeast!   We received 177 grant applications totaling $862,910. Grant awards for this round total $135,000. Through simple application process, SVdP Conferences and District Councils can apply for up to $5,000 from the National Council’s Friends of the Poor® Fund.…

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Friends of the Poor Grant Award Winners 2025 – Round 1

Congratulations to the Friends of the Poor Grant Award Winners of the Northeast Region, South Central Region, and West Region!  Northeast $5,000.00 Corpus Christi Conference St. Johnsbury VT Rent, Transportation, Fuel & Utilities Northeast $5,000.00 Sacred Heart Conference Merrick NY Car payments/repairs, Car Insurance/Registration, transportation Northeast $5,000.00 Santo Christo Conference Fall River MA Rent &…

Contemplation: No Member Above Another 720 483 Tim Williams

Contemplation: No Member Above Another

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Servant leadership is a phrase that, on its face, seems to be a contradiction. After all, we suppose, a leader is the one in charge, and the servant is the one the leader is in charge of. How can one be…

Feeding Hope: A Vincentian Connection from California to Morelos with International Twinning 843 632 admin

Feeding Hope: A Vincentian Connection from California to Morelos with International Twinning

Feeding Hope: A Vincentian Connection from California to Morelos Through the International Twinning Program of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian communities form bonds of faith and charity that transcend borders. One inspiring example is the partnership between the St. Clement Conference in Hayward, California, and the Centro Vicentino de Morelos, operated by…

Our Work to Protect the Poor Must Go on After Reconciliation Bill Passage 1600 1065 admin

Our Work to Protect the Poor Must Go on After Reconciliation Bill Passage

Our Work to Protect the Poor Must Go on After Reconciliation Bill Passage By John Berry, National President of SVdP USA  In the Gospel reading on July 4, our nation’s independence day, Jesus called Matthew to join the disciples, prompting the Pharisees to ask why he ate with tax collectors and sinners. Jesus responded, “Those…

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