EACM is a distribution center for Dare to Care and USDA resources and assists local families to place food on their tables by offering a Food Pantry.  EACM offers multicultural community services and integration of our multicultural neighbors with English classes, case management, and preparation for citizenship.  EACM also offers a home delivery meal program for those interested.  

Meet the future homeowner!

Chelsea Boyd is a Louisville native and graduate of Shawnee High School. She is the youngest of four, mother of three, and grandmother of three children.  Chelsea always had dreams of owning her own home, but her nerves always got the best of her. She has faced a lot of obstacles throughout her life, and she wasn't confident that she could be a homeowner. Despite all the hardships she's faced, she will soon fulfill her dream of owning her own home.

Chelsea learned of the Habitat Homeownership Program years ago online but never decided to apply until now. She currently lives in the Clifton area and her experience there has not been the best. A while ago, she suffered from a stroke.  The effects of that stroke have left her unable to work and unable to do a lot of things on her own.  Applying for the Habitat Homeownership Program was the first thing she's done completely by herself in a long time. The thought of not only navigating through the application process alone but being accepted on the first try brings tears of joy to her eyes.

To Chelsea, the word HOME means peace. The firt thing she is going to do in her new home is fall to her knees, pray and thank God. She cannot wait to sit back and enjoy her new home. She will be the first homowner in her immediate family so she hopes that her journey to homeownership will show her childeren that they can do it too.

To the sponsors, volunteers, and anoyone else who will be working on her home; Chelsea is so grateful. She is so glad that you all are choosing to help, because you all could be doing anything else. Thank you all for making her dream come true!

Habitat Address:  4434 Gingko Trail, Louisville, KY 40245

Catholic Charities works with refugees and immigrants to find affordable housing for them when they first arrive to Louisville. Since the housing placements normally involve non-furnished apartments, Associated Catholic Charities is in constant need of providing furnishings of these apartments.  St. Albert provides a yearly drive in the Autumn so that parishioners can donate apartment items and clothing to assist these immigrants and refugees.  Associated Catholic Charities provides a truck for donations to be placed in.  Needs vary from year to year and Associated Catholic Charities provides St. Albert with a list of items needed ( and not needed) each year.  Items usually include  small furniture, chairs, small tables, lamps, kitchen utensils and supplies,  brooms and mops, pictures and decorations for walls, bicycles, cleaning supplies, and usually coats and warm clothing. (Several refugees arrive from places with warmer climates than Louisville). 

The Lenten Tree Ministry is an annual gift-giving event which presents the parish with the opportunity of expressing our appreciation to our retired religious for their service and commitment to the Catholic Church. 

St. Albert the Great Parish families purchase small gifts which are given to show our love to over 400 religious from various organizations, including the Ursuline Sisters of Mount St. Joseph in Owensboro, KY, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth through Nazareth Home, Nazareth Home-Clifton, and the Little Sisters of the Poor. 

For more information please contact the parish office 

at (502) 425-1804.

Red Cross Blood Drives are held at St. Albert the Great on a quarterly basis in the Parish Life Center. This ministry helps to provide much needed aid to those in emergency medical situations. 

For dates of upcoming Blood Drives contact the Parish Office at (502) 495-3940. 

For more information about the Drive itself or to volunteer, contact Mary Jo Bird at (502) 552-2093.

The Respect Life Committee coordinates efforts to promote and pray for the sacredness of life at all stages including the unborn, children in poverty, the elderly, the disabled & neglected, and those living in refugee camps, war zones and prison.  

The committee sponsors the Baby Bottle Boomerang and Mother's Day Card Sale in support of Little Way Pregnancy Center.

Little Way Pregnancy Center offers a beautiful tribute to mothers for Mother's Day; the gift of a Holy Mass Offering. 

A spiritual bouquet is offered through a donation made "in memory of" or "in honor of" the Mother's name. The mothers are then included in a Mass offered by The Most Reverend Shelton Joseph Fabre, the Archbishop of Louisville.

Beautiful Mother's Day cards are then provided which can be given to the recipient on Mother's Day. Cards and crayons are provided for children.

Support of Little Way helps provide life saving ministries, including:

• Free ultrasounds with pregnancy services & support 

• Parenting education & baby closet supplies

• Journey of hope for post- abortion healing

• Abortion pill reversal for those with a change of heart 

Heidi McQuillen & Karen Thompson

St John Center, located at 700 East Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202 at Clay Street, works with homeless men to create opportunities for self -sufficiency and renewal through the hard work and dedication of their Staff , Volunteers and  Community Support.

Thank you St Albert the Great Church Parishioners for sharing your treasure. The SJC goal is to help these men leave homelessness for good.

Volunteers Needed - Time and Talent 

The SJC Day Center is open everyday 7 Days from 8:00am until 4:00pm (Wednesday 12:30pm).

Volunteers help with Morning Coffee , Mail Service, Showers , Laundry Room , Answering Phones.  Two Hour Shifts are available to fit your schedule. You pick and choose! 

Please Contact  Keesha Gardner about becoming a Volunteer at SJC Day Center.

(502) 901- 3178 or kgardner@stjohncenter.org 

The mission of the St. Vincent de Paul Society is to respond to calls from the needy for temporary assistance. The ultimate goal of providing help with food, rent, and utility bills is to empower the needy to be able to help themselves. 

Collections for St. Albert’s SVDP conference are taken up on all fifth Sundays throughout the year. If you wish to donate to SVDP, please fill out any checks to “SVDP Conference of St. Albert the Great, Inc". Donations can also be made via Online Giving.  

For more information about St. Albert’s SVDP conference contact LuAnn West.

The St. Vincent dePaul Open Hand Kitchen is another opportunity in our community to help those in need. The SVDP Open Hand Kitchen serves free meals 365 days a year to shelter clients as well as the poor and working poor in our community. 

For more information about SVDP Open Hand Kitchen, please contact Lori Duvall.

WaterStep is a locally-based organization that collects gently used shoes and sells them to exporters. WaterStep uses the profits from selling these shoes to provide water treatment facilities to areas desperately needing clean water throughout the world. 

At the beginning of each school year, the Social Concerns Committee of St. Albert parish organizes a gently used shoe collection to support the efforts that WaterStep is making to help people around the world get the clean water they need. Clean water is essential to life and we are thankful to have this opportunity to help those in need.