[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]St. Merkorious Charity had the pleasure of serving lunch to the elderly parishioners at St. Joseph Maronite Catholic Church during the feast week of the parish Parton Saint. Unfortunately, due to the outbreak of COVID-19, there were reduced number of participants. However, we had a lot of takeaway containers available, and guests were extremely grateful to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A wonderful volunteer artist has been running weekly free art classes for the homeless clients under St. Merkorious Charity, and will continue this year as well. Art is a wonderful skill to learn, opening doors of opportunities as well as a great community activity to draw and learn together. The classes are run in St. Merkorious's Church...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]St. Merkorious Charity had the honour and privilege to deliver donations to the small town of Bargo, whose residents were unfortunately affected by the devastating 2020 Bushfires. Our delivered donations included critical emergency items such as water, face masks, pantry goods, hygiene items, electrolytes and baby food. Our volunteers met with Paula Zrilic, founder of 'Our Community...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Every year, St. Merkorious Charity packs Christmas Hampers for our clients - our cohort, who are disadvantaged in some way, and often may not be able to celebrate Christmas as many of us would. Therefore, we organised three Christmas nights at Croydon Hall. Many of our volunteers came and donated items for the hampers, while helping...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]St. Merkorious Charity treasures the community we have fostered with St. Joseph Church and prepared a Christmas Lunch for their elderly group. St. Joseph Church prepared food for the lunch alongside the offerings made by our volunteers. The lunch was a great success, and we hope the service will help connect the elderly community more and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We were honoured to be part of the Burwood Mayoral Christmas Appeal at Burwood Woodstock Centre. Guests were invited to contribute non-perishable hampers for St. Merkorious Charity and St. Paul’s Anglican Church Burwood to distributed to local families in need this Christmas. We thank the St. Merkorious Charity committee members and all the attendees who donated...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On December the 13th, 2019, 20 students with special needs from Waranara School kindly volunteered to prepare Christmas Hampers with St. Merkorious Charity. Coming along with some of their teachers, all of the students and St. Merkorious volunteers had a wonderful time preparing Christmas hampers at Croydon Hall. They also generously donated some items. Thank you for your...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] St. Merkorious Charity organised a Christmas Concert at St. Merkorious Church at Rhodes, organised on two consecutive Mondays for Monday Night Service. Volunteers from Paynter Dixon helped on one of the nights, and many wonderful youths volunteered the following week to make our Christmas Concert joyous, friendly and celebratory for every single person who participated. The Christmas...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] St. Merkorious Charity was given the opportunity to join the Christmas gift wrapping stall at Burwood Westfield Shopping Centre. We thank Burwood Westfield and our volunteers for helping us man our stall. We successfully raised $400 for our cause throughout the week![/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="26px"][edgtf_button size="" type="" target="_self" icon_pack="font_awesome" fa_icon="" font_weight="600" text="More Events" link="https://stmerkorious.org.au/events/" color="#ffffff" hover_color="#ffffff" background_color="#ffb422" border_color="#ffb422" font_size="15"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] St. Merkorious Charity hosted our second Hot Meal and Fellowship in Burwood Park. We were proud to be able to feed a hot, nutritious meal to approximately 50 homeless and disadvantaged guests on that day. We sincerely thank our special guests John Faker, Mayor of Burwood, Tracey and Michelle representing Burwood RSL Club, and members from Burwood...
