$4,500 Raised at Spring Charity Garden Market

Purchasing a Basket of Love was a new way for our customers to support the KOC/LAX charities. We delivered a Basket of Love to 10 St. Charles Senior Living – Assisted Living facilities. Like last year, we split the net proceeds with the Knights.
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$2,954 Total Donated to Mercy for the Starving

The Auxiliary matched personal donations up to $1,025. Members donated $1,929. Our $2,954 donation will purchase over 11,800 nutritious MannaPackTM meals and helped bring the 2-day March 2023 service project/meal packing event to St. Patrick’s Crane Road Church.

Turn hunger into HOPE

With God’s help and our support, FMSC strives to eliminate starvation in children throughout the world. 

Each meal costs less than a quarter to make and more than 90% of total donations goes directly toward feeding kids.  FMSC consistently receives the highest awards for integrity and trustworthiness, earning a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for 16 consecutive years.

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$500 Contribution to Beautiful U Ministries

Founded in 2010, Beautiful U Ministries is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, Christian organization passionately serving the needs of at-risk pregnant teens and teen mothers.  A safe, secure family environment is an essential part of our process, which is why we operate a “family-style” program where each applicant is placed in either a Beautiful U Satellite-Home or in the Transitional Living Center (TLC).  

Beautiful U Ministries works very closely with Lazarus House, Waterleaf Crisis Pregnancy Center in Aurora, local school districts & other welfare agencies. Then, they build solutions for single moms and children:

  • Housing: safe, loving, family style intervention
  • Opportunity: education, vocational or job skill training, networking, accountability & spiritual shepherding
  • Programs: therapy/counseling, life skill & parenting classes,  budgeting, nutrition, fitness, and spiritual health
  • Education: continuing education, tutoring, life coaches 

Providing H.O.P.E. for young women in Kane County.

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$500 Contribution to Corbella Clinic

The Ladies Auxiliary has been supporting Corbella’s life-saving ministry since our inception. Corbella’s director, Jeanna Desideri, wrote “We reach out to these brothers and sisters in Christ, and after offering medical services, education, resources and support, they often say YES to life.” You can help too by visiting their donor website at www.missionariesoflife.org.

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Spring Shred Fundraising Event

Thank you to our supporters that came out April 8th, Holy Saturday morning, with their confidential documents for shredding. Your donations will allow the KOC Ladies Auxiliary to aid community resources that provide services/programs at no charge.

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LAX Procures New Shelves for Lazarus House

From Megan Lopez, Volunteer Coordinator at Lazarus House:

Wanted to send you a picture of the bookshelves, they worked perfectly! The size is great, the kids can walk right over to it and take the books on top to read. We are so blessed and grateful to you (Kim Haag) and the other members from the Ladies Auxiliary! Thank you for all your help!!

And, we thank Kim, too, for leading this effort.

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New Altar Linen Gift to St. John Neumann

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$250 Donated toward new Crane Road Tree

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2022-23 Mission Statement Recipient: McKayla Hansen

Chosen as one of the students traveling to Nicaraguaa in January of 2023, McKayla will be doing clinical work in the villages of the rural volcanic island of Ometepe. The clinical work involves general health screenings, administering first aid, shadowing the doctors and donating a bunch of items the class collected to support the community. She is a St. Patrick Parish parishioner. The Ladies Auxiliary donated $200 to McKayla’s travel expenses. Pictured are (l to r) Donna Baum, McKayla, Caroline (President) and Ann (Treasurer).
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Breakfast with Santa/Keep Christ in Christmas Poster Contest

On December 11, 2022 the Knights of Columbus and Ladies Auxiliary hosted a breakfast with Santa. Along with breakfast, seeing Santa and crafts, children could enter the Keep Christ in Christmas poster contest. The event was well attended with good submissions for the poster contest. Thank you, Lois Mielke, for leading this event for the LAX.
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