LINCOLN (SNR/CSS) - Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska (CSS) partnered with the F Street Neighborhood Church to distribute 70 cleaning kits to veterans, and 40 cleaning kits for the Asian Community and Cultural Center who will distribute to elder refugee clients.
CSS staff and volunteers assembled all the supply kits to distribute to F Street Neighborhood Church and Asian Community and Cultural Center May 14.
Extra cleaning kits will be distributed by CSS to recent refugee arrivals.
“With all the social distancing currently in place in our city, it does make building new relationships challenging, but the Lord provides,” said Katie Patrick, regional director of social services at CSS. “When the F Street Neighborhood Church reached out to us in hopes of providing veterans with cleaning kits, and just hours later the Asian Community and Cultural Center reached out with the same request to help their elder refugee clients - we, at CSS, were blessed to be able to say yes.
“By the generosity of our donors,” she continued, “we were able to assemble 110 cleaning kits for distribution. Serving those in need, while making new connections and friendships along the way, is faith in action. I’m really grateful to our community partners, donors, staff, and volunteers for making it happen. God is good!”
Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska, founded in 1932, is the charitable arm of the Diocese of Lincoln, serving all individuals regardless of faith in the southern third of Nebraska. The services cover 24,000 square miles and touch the lives of nearly 30,000 people annually.
CSS provides food pantry services, emergency services which include rent and utility assistance, disaster relief, refugee and immigration services, St. Gianna Women’s Homes - a program for women and their children escaping violence and domestic abuse - and a clinical/family counseling program which provides psychological services. More information is available at www.cssisus.org.
