The COVID pandemic has disrupted food systems and the most vulnerable are facing an unprecedented food crisis.

​While we cannot walk together, we can work together to raise funds to fight hunger for our neighbors around the world and around the corner.
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March 14 kicks off the virtual event but individuals and households can walk as much or as little, in the place of their choosing, and when they wish, between March 14 and March 31. 

Join us with your steps or sponsorship. Fr. Patrick will walk 7 miles. Sponsor walkers online or register online below under Camarillo walk Padre Serra’s TEAM. 

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“O God, to those who have hunger, give bread, And to us who have bread, give the hunger for justice.”       
-Latin American prayer

​Every March our parish joins with other Camarillo churches and neighbors from different faiths, cultures and ages, to stand against hunger in our local community and the world.
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The reason we walk is because “they walk”.  Hungry people in developing countries typically walk as much as six miles a day to get food, water, and fuel and to take their goods to market. We walk to be in solidarity with their struggle for existence. Together we raise awareness and funds. 

The funds raised will fight hunger around the world and our local food pantries: St. Mary Magdalen/Padre Serra Christian Service Program, Christians Acting Together, Food Share, St. Columba’s Episcopal Food Pantry, Seventh Day Adventist Church Food Pantry, Many Meals and RAIN.

​Contact:
Carrie Perry

You can save a life! Please know:

• Only healthy people are encouraged to come give blood. In fact, donors must be feeling well and free of respiratory illness symptoms, including fever, to be eligible to donate.
• We are checking donors’ temperatures upon check-in and masks are required to be worn by all donors.​
• We are using CDC guidelines for social distances at our donor centers and blood drives.  

To schedule an appointment call (805) 543·4290 

Questions: Teresa Runyon (805) 482·6417 x322
​teresa@padreserra.org

​Also visit: Outreach

When dropping off, please wear a mask, covering mouth and nose.

The donation truck will be in our parking lot to collect your gently used items: clothes, shoes, kitchen items, DVD/CD, luggage, sports gear, books, and toys. *No electronics please* 
Please come early, the truck will leave once filled. ​Items cannot be left in the office or food bin in church.

Your donations assist those in need twice! Once by donating for the Thrift Store and from those sales funds are given back to local SVDP chapters.

For free pickup of large donations like furniture, large appliances, and vehicles, please call St. Vincent de Paul at (323) 224·6280 or (800) 974·3571.

Together we can help our neighbors in need!

Also visit: St. Vincent de Paul, Groups, Outreach

Dr. Paul Ford offers a weekly reflection and study of the upcoming Sunday scriptures so we can better understand the good news message of Jesus Christ and how He is present in our lives.

Until we can meet in person again, he will email a pre-recorded lesson each week. 

Sign up: 
paulfford@stjohnsem.edu
or visit this page for each week's recording:

• March 21 | Slides
• March 14 | Slides
• March 7 | Part 1 and Part 2  | Slides
• February 28 | Slides 
• February 21 | Slides 
• February 14 | Slides
• February 7 | Slides
• January 31 | Slides
• January 24 | Slides
• January 17 | Slides
• ​January 10 | Slides

​Contact teresa@padreserra.org​

Also visit: Adults, The Bible and the Church Fathers

SEEDS (Sisters ~ Embracing ~ Enlightening ~ Daughters of Faith) is a monthly evening of spirituality for women to meet in fellowship to share the Word of God and grow in faith.

We begin the new year with a new series: The Year of Saint Joseph - by Pope Francis and The Hidden Life of Saint Joseph. 

Questions:
Geralyn Moody
​angeltags@padreserra.org

Every year, our parish helps over 1,100 children and adults have a special Christmas morning. This year we are collecting gifts for RAIN, OASIS, Ventura County Youth Correctional Facility, St. Francis Parish in Fillmore, San Salvador Mission in Piru, and Immaculate Conception Parish in New Cuyama. 
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Also visit: Outreach, Advent

♪ Let every heart prepare him room ♪
We decorate our homes for Christmas. Even more important is readying our hearts, both for the Lord’s return at the end of time, and to celebrate His birthday.

Examine your life. Confess your sins. Trust the Lord’s mercy. Celebrate with joy.

Also visit: Advent

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Buy gifts with a purpose! This fair trade craft program directly supports materially impoverished artisans and their communities in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. We have an opportunity to support them by purchasing their beautiful hand-made items such as handcrafted textiles, ceramics and wood products from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Mozambique. 

Our purchases provides a source of income to materially poor families while supporting community development, protecting the environment, and ensuring fair working conditions and fair prices earned for their work.

​Shop online
Learn more www.concernamerica.org

Also visit: Giving, Outreach, Seasonal

Peer leaders help engage our confirmation candidates by acting as mentors and facilitators during our weekly confirmation sessions, our annual retreats, and at 4:12 youth nights. 

​If you are confirmed and are interested in joining our team, or if you have any questions, contact youth@padreserra.org

​Visit also: Youth and Young Adults

​For those who want to grow deeper in their Catholic faith through discussion, community building, spiritual activities, and service projects. For more information contact youngadults@padreserra.org​

We are so excited to participate in the Junior High Youth Day!
During our two hours together we will enjoy our keynote speaker Mike Patin, worship music with the Chavez Family band, our Emcee Howard Durand (Padre Serra Parishioner) and a great opportunity for fun and Junior High fellowship from all over the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Reminders about Zoom webinar:

• You will see and hear the speakers and musicians.
• Your camera and microphone will not be seen and heard.
• You will be able to reach the tech crew by sending a message in the chat.
• Private chat will not be used.
• yes you may share this link with other middle schoolers in your life.

Any questions, please contact tere@padreserra.org

​New members are welcome anytime to our friendly group.

​We explore and practice different types of writing and read our work to one another each week. Some days we do “free writing” for ten minutes on a chosen topic.

Other weeks we read our prepared pieces (up to 500 words) on a designated subject. Our comments on one another’s writing are constructive and honor the deep feelings that are expressed. 

We share each other resources about writing , and equally the responsibility for the successful working of the group.

Our topics are not overtly “religious,” but give us an opportunity to express the concerns of our souls. Many consider the experience to be healing. We encourage humor and playfulness; we laugh a lot. This is as much a faith sharing group as it is a writing group. We pray together. We take care of one another.

​Contact:
Linda Lowe

Also visit: Adults, Groups

“The Catholic community stands with all people who struggle for an end to racism and violence, in our families, in our places of worship, in our communities and in our world. We must continue to build bridges and we must confront racism and violence with a commitment to life, a vision of hope, and a call to action,” Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, President of the U.S. Bishops Conference, June 19, 2015.

With this call to action, we can no longer stay silent or idle to the persistence of racism embedded in our institutions and public policies and how it impacts us personally.  It is time we begin the healing process by listening to the experiences of our faith communities of color. May we be present with our compassionate hearts to listen to their voices and truths.

Panelists include: Nirmala Bheemisetty, Martita Martinez-Bravo, and Cynthia Jones-Campbell