The St. Katherine Drexel Conference is comprised of neighbors helping neighbors. The needy community of Calvert County relies on volunteers to provide much needed assistance. St. Katherine Drexel Conference is always looking for volunteers to join our conference. For more information about becoming a Vincentian, please review this brochure. If you feel the calling from God to be a part of this amazing organization, where you can fulfil your Christian calling, please contact us at svdp@jesusdivineword.org or 443-684-9261.
We also need volunteers who want to assist the Society with its fundraising activities/events. One of the major fundraising events held by the Society is the Friends of the Poor Walk/Run held in late September or early October around the feast of our founder St. Vincent dePual. To volunteer for this or any other fundraising events please contact us at svdp@jesusdivineword.org or 443-684-9261.
The Society of St. Vincent dePaul is a worldwide Catholic organization of lay people, open to all who wish to live their faith by loving and serving their neighbors.
Members of the St. Katherine Drexel Conference provide person-to-person service to help those in need, regardless of race, creed, gender or religion. We perform our works of charity quietly and respectfully, preserving the dignity of all those we encounter. No work of charity is foreign to us.
The VISION is to see in those in need the face of Christ.
The MISSION is to bring faith and hope alive through service to others, one neighbor at a time.
The GOALS are to live our faith by loving and serving individuals and families, so that no one is in need of the necessities of life.
Inspired by Gospel values, the Society of St. Vincent dePaul, a Catholic lay organization, leads women and men to join together to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering.
Day after day, many people in our very own local Calvert County community struggle to make ends meet. As a result, the local Society of St. Vincent dePaul (SVdP) in Huntingtown, St. Katherine Drexel Conference’s goal is to help individuals and families in our community.
SVdP volunteers work with individuals and families to provide emergency food, electricity assistance, avoid eviction, transportation, help with medical bills, etc. SVdP volunteers continuously work to provide individuals and families with assistance regardless of religion, race, or national origin.
One hundred percent of proceeds and donations received by SVdP directly benefit the people in the Calvert County community, there are no admirative feeds. Our goal is to assist the neediest in our community.
Our services are provided by volunteers and 100% of all donations received by the St. Katherine Drexel Conference goes directly to help the needy in Calvert County. Our volunteers provide all of our work free of charge.
St. Katherine Drexel Conference provides the following services to those living in poverty in Calvert County, but not limited to;
Emergency food
Electricity assistance
Avoid eviction & limited rental/mortgage assistance
Transportation
Medical bills