Our Mission is to Serve
A network of friends, inspired by Gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need.
Core Values
The core values that make up the Society's creed and define the ministry of its members are:
- The dignity of the human person
- The identification of Jesus with the poor
- The preferential option for the poor
- Jesus, Evangelizer and Servant of the poor
- Growth in intimacy with Jesus as a life-long process
- Poverty in spirit
- Concern with charity and justice
- Prayer as essential: personal and communal
- The virtue of humility: personal and corporate
- The virtue of charity within and outside of the Society
- Reliance on Divine Providence
- Friendship
- Solidarity
- Community
Services We Provide
- Food programs
- Emergency financial assistance
- Assistance with utility payments
- Emergency transportation
- Disaster relief and victim services
- Rent/mortgage assistance
- Employment services
- Counseling/Information
- Referral service
- Budget counseling
- Nutritional education
- Social justice programs
- Advocacy
- Twinning, foreign and domestic
- Prison Ministry
- Vehicle repair program
- The ARC card program
- Embracing the lonely, forgotten, and alienated
- Service to anyone in need
Contact the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Conference closest to your location to determine which services and programs are available.
