Through our partnership with Santa’s Workshop, families across Chicago received food and toys, including 30 families at Blessed Maria Gabriella Parish, 21 at Union Baptist Church, 26 at Art on Sedgwick, and several families previously served through ICSJ’s former food pantry.

Generous donations of winter clothing items, collected during ICSJ School’s Pre-K ACTS Day, will be assembled into Winter Care Baskets by ICSJ’s Wisdom, Women & Wine group and delivered by ICSJ volunteers in partnership with Exodus World Service.

Our combined School & Parish Holiday Food Drive provided vital support to Blessed Maria Gabriella Parish, the Archdiocese’s Harvest of Hope Collection, and the National Student Refugee Coalition’s Walter Payton Chapter (with special thanks to ICSJ alum Killian Stevens!).

Through ICSJ’s Giving Tree Gift Card Program, $1,500 in Home Depot cards were donated to support our sharing parish Mother of the Americas’ youth space renovation, and $3,000 in ALDI cards were donated for refugee families served through our partner Exodus World Service.

Through the Prison Fellowship Angel Tree program, 60 children in 25 families with incarcerated loved ones received Christmas gifts through the efforts of ICSJ volunteers who contacted families and purchased, wrapped, and delivered the gifts.