Each year in November, St. John’s participates in the Coats for Kids drive by Anton’s Cleaners, a Boston-wide coat collection campaign for children, teens, adults and babies. Anton’s cleans all the donated coats and coordinates their distribution to those in need.  Please bring gently used, warm, winter coats to the Rectory garage after Mass on the weekends of November 4-5 and 11-12.

 Each spring the St. John Parish community comes together to support  St. Francis House with a Men’s Clothing Drive. Each year the drive is a huge success because of your generosity and grace. St. Francis House serves approximately 50 clothing appointments per day (M-F), which is 250 full set of clothing per week, to their guests in need. To help meet this ongoing need, we are collecting men’s gently-used everyday clothing.

Right now, the highest needed items include:

• Men’s pants (especially jeans size 30-40)
• T-shirts, shirts, sweaters, sweatshirts, & spring
  coats
• Footwear (walking shoes and sneakers)
• Backpacks/duffel bags/tote bags
• Summer hats (baseball caps, beach hats)
• NEW underwear and undershirts (in original
  packaging)
• NEW socks (for their Foot Clinic)

We hope you will take the time for a quick spring cleaning, and remember to drop off the items to the St. John church garage on the weekend of June 10-11 from 9AM to 5PM.

Please Note: They DO NOT accept children’s clothing, used socks, or any discolored items. If you can put your items in boxes or secured bags, and label it with the general contents, it would be a great help with sorting. Thank you for your generosity!

Please bring gently used, warm, winter coats to the Rectory garage after Masses this weekend, November 12-13.

Each year in November, St. John’s participates in the Coats for Kids drive by Anton’s Cleaners, a Boston-wide coat collection campaign for children, teens, adults and babies. Anton’s cleans all the donated coats and coordinates their distribution to those in need.  Please bring gently used, warm, winter coats to the Rectory garage after Mass on the weekends of November 5-6 and 12-13.

This weekend is our spring Men’s Clothing Drive for St. Francis House. Each year the drive is a huge success because of your generosity and grace. St. Francis House is the largest day shelter in New England, serving over 800 men and women on a daily basis; on average, St. Francis House distributes 250 sets of clothing to their guests each week. To help meet this ongoing need, we are collecting men’s gently-used everyday clothing.

Right now, the highest needed items include:

• Men’s pants (especially jeans – given out on a daily basis)
• T-shirts (extremely important – given out on a daily basis)
• Footwear (extremely important)
• Sweaters & Sweatshirts
• Backpacks/duffel bags
• Coats, hats, gloves, and scarves (larger sizes in extreme needed)
• NEW Socks (for their Foot Clinic)

NEW THIS YEAR, we are accepting professional clothing (suits) in support of St. Francis House’s Moving Ahead Program. It is a job-skills training program that supports students with self-sufficiency and well-being to lead fulfilling lives. Professional clothing will help students with the interview process.

We hope you will take the time for a quick spring cleaning, and remember to drop off the items to our church garage on the weekend of June 11-12 from 9AM to 5PM.

Please Note: They DO NOT accept children’s clothing, used socks, or any discolored items. If you can put your items in boxes or secured bags, and label it with the general contents, it would be a great help with sorting. Thank you for your generosity!