[Salvation]

**every day three parishes provide food for the homeless**

This sounds wonderful!

There are also several programs for homeless families.

One is Interfaith Hospitality Network — churches take tuens hosting these families, they providew dinner and breakfast, then during the day — either the families look for work or go to their day center with the children. There are about 15 different congregations that assist with this in my town.

[Desdemona]

And that's just the hot lunch program. We also all take turns making hundreds of baloney sandwiches that the staff at St. Patrick takes to the streets after dark. It's usually a couple hours after Mass once a year.

They also have a very successful reintroduction program for recently released parolees and those recovering from drug addiction. THere's a grill/restaurant and now a small business incubator that's almost full and was just funded with a $250,000 grant.

It's really a cool place.