Community Outreach & Opportunities
There are many ways to support our neighbors and grow together in faith. Explore ways to share your time, talent, and treasure through service, skill-building, donations, and community programs—all in one place.
Help provide meals, lend a hand, or offer practical support to people throughout the Cedar Rapids Area East Pastorate.
Members of the Cedar Rapids Area East Pastorate help serve dinner twice each month. Volunteers in sixth grade and older are welcome.
A new baby, surgery, difficult season, or joyful life event can be a time when a meal means so much. Parishioners provide meals for fellow parishioners who could use support.
Want to prepare a meal, or need one yourself? Use the ministry form to get involved or request help.
Martha's Meals information & formProvide part of the evening meal.
Provide lunch for our Habitat work teams.
Provide part of the Sunday meal.
Programs that help people strengthen their skills and take the next step.
St. Vincent de Paul invites you to apply for a free, 7-day Back2Work program designed to help participants succeed in employment.
Questions? Call 319-365-5091.
Support schools, farmers, and neighbors through financial gifts, purposeful purchases, and needed items.
This October we celebrate the 100th World Mission Day since its establishment in October 1927 by Pope Pius XI.
All Saints has been twinned with Notre Dame de Lourdes in Haiti since 2000. St. Mary's in Vinton joined in 2004, St. John the Baptist in 2013, and now St. Ludmila and St. Pius X are joining through the Cedar Rapids Area East Pastorate.
For 26 years, this partnership has helped support 17–24 chapel schools and salaries for 68 teachers, serving approximately 3,200 students each year. Annual fundraisers have supported education in Haiti since 2003.
As our pastorate grows, we look forward to answering questions and welcoming more people into this relationship of faith and service.
If you see a student picture, please take it home and pray for their education, health, and future. When we visit, the students tell us they pray for us, too. What a blessing to share in each other's prayers.
Give online through All Saints Church Center and select “Haiti” from the fund dropdown. You may also contribute through the collection basket. Make checks payable to All Saints with HAITI in the memo line.
Donate to HaitiThank you for your continued support,
The Haiti and CR East Faith in Action committees
St. Pius X Faith in Action offers Café El Zapote coffee to support direct-trade relationships with farmer cooperatives in Honduras and Uganda.
Founded in 2018 by members of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Ames, Café El Zapote purchases directly from cooperatives, helping reduce middlemen and offer fairer market opportunities. Your purchase helps support a cooperative in Honduras.
Available at the St. Pius X Parish Office, Donut Sunday, or through Flocknote.
Order Café El Zapote CoffeeFreshly roasted. Direct from Honduras to Iowa. Coffee with a purpose!
Sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Cedar Rapids #1768. Proceeds from the pecan sale will help send Court members to the 2027 State CDA Convention in Des Moines, April 23–25.
Order online using the link below or pick up a paper order form at your local parish. Mail completed paper orders to:
CDA Court #1768
PO Box 1131
Cedar Rapids, IA 52406
Questions? Call or text Roberta at 319-431-2222.
Metro Catholic Outreach provides groceries, essential supplies, weekend food bags for students, and limited rent or utility assistance to neighbors in need.
October 19–22, 2026: 195 families served · 40 school bags · 255 bags for unhoused neighbors
Metro Catholic Outreach uses more than 2,000 plastic grocery bags each week. Extra bags are especially helpful.
Please do not donate clothing or blankets at this time.
Volunteers provide easy-to-prepare food for students experiencing food insecurity over the weekend. During October 19–22, 40 bags supported students from 16 families.
Items needed:
Donor support makes approximately $7,200 in rent and utility assistance available every 30 days, helping about 12–15 eligible households each month.
Extra garden vegetables are welcome Mondays and Tuesdays, 9 AM–3 PM. Please bring donations inside during office hours; food left outside cannot be distributed.
Questions or large donations? Please call ahead at 319-739-5490 or email metrocatholicoutreach@gmail.com.
324 pairs donated · 518.75 pounds diverted from local landfills
Since January 1, St. Pius X Parish has donated 324 pairs of shoes to Soles 4 Souls. These donations provide economic opportunities for families worldwide and have kept 518.75 pounds of shoes out of local landfills. Thank you for your continued support!
Contact the All Saints parish office at (319) 363-6130 or officemgr@allsaintscr.com. For specific programs, use the sign-up or contact details provided in their announcements.