St. Leo’s Project Lunch Break
St. Leo the Great, Lincroft, NJ
For more than ten years, the St. Leo’s Community has enthusiastically supported Project Lunch Break. This program was designed to provide weekend meals to over 100 individuals in the Red Bank area. Since the beginning of the program, parish volunteers have made and delivered over 75,000 weekend bag lunch meal packages.
Support for this program comes from the generous financial contributions of parishioners. Donations of paper products and drinks/snacks/soup/oatmeal have also been critical to the success of the program. Without the generous contributions from the entire parish and the CCD program, this project would not be possible.
Each Saturday morning at 10AM, rain or shine, volunteers gather in the St. Leo’s school cafeteria where 125 bag lunches are prepared in assembly line style. White paper is draped over the lunch tables and student volunteers wearing gloves lay out 250 slices of bread which are transformed into cold cut sandwiches in less than 20 minutes.
Another group of volunteers prepare the lunch bags. Into each bag is placed a drink, snack, piece of fruit, cup/teabag and napkin. During the cold weather months, soup or oatmeal is included, as long as supplies are available. Once the bags are prepared, the sandwiches are added and the bags rolled shut and transferred to Lunch Break for distribution.
Each week adult volunteers are relieved when the number of sandwich bags equals the number of lunch bags.
How you can help:
- Volunteer: We invite you to join us on Saturday morning in the St. Leo’s school cafeteria between 10:00 and 10:30 a.m. Volunteers are especially needed in the summer when the students are away.
- Donations: We are always in need of juice boxes for the bag lunches.
Questions: Please contact Cheryl Keefe at 732-758-0786.
Lunch Break thanks the St. Leo’s Parish Community for their continued support of this program.