Laundry Love came to life through the partnership of parishioner Kelli Graham and St. Christopher's outreach ministry. The ministry evolved into an independent 501(c)3. The parishioners of St. Chris continue to support Laundry Love with many hours of volunteerism and financial gifts.
Today, Laundry Love helps 50 families each month.
At each event, families are fed and there's a creative space for children.
Laundry Love is held on the third Saturday of each month at TurboLaundry in Fort Worth.
If you’d like to volunteer, please contact kelligraham76@yahoo.com. To help out financially, donate here.
For more information on this ministry, check out Laundry Love's website.
One of the most-well known miracles of the Bible is Jesus’ healing of the leper. A man approaches Jesus and says, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean?” Jesus touches the man and the man is cured of his leprosy.
In India, lepers are shunned and kept clustered in remote colonies. They survive mostly by begging.
Hopewallah -- meaning “one who provides hope” -- seeks to be a modern-day miracle for the leper colonies of Hyderabad.
St. Christopher’s parishioner Dr. Andy Babbali leads an annual medical mission. In doing so, Andy follows the example of his late father, Prabhudass Babbili, who served as Bishop of the Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India.
During his lifetime, Andy’s father would walk or bicycle to spread the Gospel to the area’s remote leper colonies. He raised funds to build a small church, permanent housing, shelters, a nursery school and a medical clinic.
The nonprofit, founded in 2007, continues his father’s legacy. It supports a small church, kindergarten, primary school and a lunch program. Andy wants to eventually build a modern clinic and hospital and to employ a permanent medical staff.
Hopewallah holds an annual charity fundraiser at St. Christopher’s to raise money to help carry out its life-saving work. For more about how you can help, click here, http://www.hopewallah.org
St. Christopher’s has been a faithful and strong supporter of CCA for many years. CCA provides food, clothing, and other services for people living in poverty in Fort Worth. CCA operates a food pantry and a clothing closet and provides limited financial aid. Parishioners generously donate clothing, bring in pantry items and other household essentials and provide individual monetary donations. The church budgets a regular monthly contribution, which is used to purchase food at Tarrant Area Food Bank. Parishioners also volunteer at CCA, and one of the 13 partner congregations, St. Christopher’s has a representative on the CCA Board of Directors. Volunteer opportunities include food pantry workers, clothing closet helpers, intake interviewers, receptionists. Volunteers are always welcome for whatever time they can give. One of our parishioners, Carolyn Law, currently serves as CCA’s board president. For more information about how you can help, please contact her at crlaw1976@yahoo.com or check out CCA's website.
Parishioners of St. Chris volunteer monthly with 4 Saints Food Pantry, an outreach begun by St. Luke's in the Meadow Episcopal Church.
On the 4th Saturday of each month they offer a mobile food pantry in a large church parking lot and need a large cadre of volunteers to support this mega-effort. They welcome participation by a team from our church. This is a four-hour commitment from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A volunteer sign-up sheet will be available in the narthex.
St. Christopher's is part of The Diocese of Texas, a diocese of The Episcopal Church.
