Outreach Ministries
Contact: John Huber

Mission Trips
Contact: TBA

In 2006 and 2007 St. Lawrence has sent several parishioners to Camp Coast Care in Long Beach, Mississippi to offer assistance with Hurricane Katrina Relief. Camp Coast Care is operated through the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi and has been open since the first days after the storm to offer assistance to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Through Camp Coast Care volunteers assist local citizens in various stages of rebuilding from the aftermath of the storm.

Cathedral Shelter
Cathedral Shelter is an inner-city agency of the Chicago Diocese of the Episcopal Church, working with homeless alcoholics to help them attain sobriety, find jobs and get off the street. The Shelter also runs a food pantry and works with a senior citizen complex.

Every Christmas, Cathedral Shelter runs a huge Christmas basket campaign. St. Lawrence participates in this effort, preparing food and gift baskets for about 50 people. Watch for the sign up sheets around the first of November.

United Thank Offering
Contact: Mary Quednau

The UTO was begun in 1889 as a discipline on our life in Christ - a way of daily prayer and thanksgiving of dropping a few coins in "the blue box." These offerings are collected twice yearly, and are combined with donations from all over the country to create grant money for foreign missions as well as local outreach.

St. Lawrence Food Pantry
Contact: Any member or leader of the Rite 13 Group

A basket at the chancel rail of the church each week is to receive parishioners' donations of nonperishable foods. The food collected is organized into a food pantry for distribution to local families in need.

Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS)
Contact: Don Craig

St. Lawrence parishioners staff a local PADS site one night a month. Volunteers serve in three shifts on the fourth Tuesday of each month, October - April, at the Wildwood Presbyterian Church. PADS provides a safe and warm place for the homeless to sleep, as well as a nutritious evening meal and a sack lunch for the following day. Volunteers not able to work at the site can help by signing up to prepare food.

Christ Church Soup Kitchen
Contact: Jim Brown

Christ Episcopal Church in Waukegan serves a Sunday meal to about 65-120 homeless or disadvantaged people each week. We at St. Lawrence help in that endeavor by providing a team to go to Waukegan to prepare and serve that meal six times per year. Children over 10 are invited to serve with their families.

Walkathon and other Fundraisers
Other events occur throughout the year to raise money for worthwhile causes, and St. Lawrence parishioners are often involved. The annual CROP Walk is an interfaith even to raise money for many relief ministries. Run for Life supports cancer research and outreach. Appeals for the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief raise monies in response to specific tragedies at home and abroad.

Sunday Services:
7:30am - Holy Eucharist Rite I Liturgy
9:00am - Holy Eucharist Rite II Liturgy
10:10am - Christian Education
11:00am - Holy Eucharist Rite II Choral Liturgy
Thursday Service:
8:30am - Holy Eucharist