District Wide
District Meetings:
- October 13, 2025 – District Meeting Held at St Mary’s Church, Navilleton
- December 8, 2025 – Upcoming District Meeting
Attendance at the October 13th District Meeting:
Jim Clerc, District Council Interim President
Gayle Schrank, St. Mary’s Navilleton
Marilyn Banet St. Mary’s New Albany
Marty Townsend, Past President Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Dan Schoenfelder, Past President, Holy Family
Gary Koerber, St. John Paul II
Mark George, St. Anthony
Danny Schmidt, Holy Family
Pam Norris for Al Bolander, St. Augustine
Vicki Knable, St. Joseph Corydon
Tim Naville, Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Annual Reports:
- 8 of 8 Conferences have finalized their reports
- 2 of 2 Special Works have finalized their reports
Ozanam Orientation
Ozanam Orientation was held at St John Paul II parish in Sellersburg on November 14, 2025. 24 people attended, representing 8 conferences.
St. John Paul ll Conference, Sellersburg – Gary Koerber, President
St John Paul II conference helped 48 people in October (up from 37 in September) we provided $3428.80 in rent and utility assistance. We hosted area Ozanam Orientation training on November 15 we had 24 attendees. (Both Gary Koerber and Joe Lynch attended as conference leaders.) We received several donations so we are in good financial shape to finish the year.
St. Anthony Conference, Clarksville – Mark George, President:
The following is the St. Anthony Conference Bi-monthly Stats – 17 Sep 25 to 28 Nov 25:
Finance:
We served the following with Eviction Prevention, Utilities, Hotel (Homeless Assistance), and Household Furniture.
23 Families.
50 Adults.
34 Children.
5 Seniors.
Total Personnel Served: 77.
We pledged $653.00 in Eviction Prevention, $2,683.00 in Utility Assistance, $1,003.00 in Hotel – Homeless Assistance.
Total Pledge Sum: $4,339.00
Food Pantry Assistance: We served 378 Households, 348 Families: 783 Adults, 248 Children, 151 Seniors, and 28 Veterans.
Total Personnel Served: 1,558. Total Pounds of Food Distributed: 13,801 lbs.
St Joseph Conference, Corydon – Vicki Knable, President:
October 2025 works from SVdP Saint Joseph’s conference:
- Total assistance: $5,477.56
- Calls received: 71
- Adults helped: 102
- Children helped: 56
- Homeless helped: 3
- Home visits: 2
Saint Mary’s Food pantry Families:
- 122 Individuals: 354
- Veterans: 3
Saint Michael’s Food pantry:
- Households: 114
- Individuals: 386
St. Augustine Conference, Jeffersonville – Al Bolander, President:
In September we helped 39 households made up of 46 adults and 33 Children. Total monetary assistance was $3,996.
In October we helped 36 households made up of 53 adults and 47 Children. Total monetary assistance was $3,638.12
Bulletin pleas for help along with the news and shutdown has increased donations. They are nearer to the request level.
We have started our parish advent project at the Thanksgiving mass (2 to 4 weeks’ worth of grocery) for 88 families that were identified to be in need. parishioners sign up to sponsor a needy family or give money for a family. We will be buying groceries on 12-19 for those that money is given for the families, 12-20 we will collect groceries from parishioners for families they sponsor. 12-21 we give out the grocery to families in need along with coats and gift cards that the K of C provider. The parish had done this for over 50 years, and it was in need of someone to take over so at Father’s request starting last year SVdP has taken charge. We get the help of the K of C, middle & high school children and parishioners. It helps the parish to be involved with SVdP and for SVdP to become part of the parish.
We had about eight people attend Ozanam Training. We held an in-house ServWare training for about eight people.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Conference, New Albany – Tim Naville, President:
Report for October-November 2025:
- Households helped 34
- People helped: 75
- We disbursed $240 in Kroger cards.
- We helped 15 households with $3675.88 in rent.
- We helped 16 household Duke Energy bills for $3814.95
- We helped 1 household with an Indiana American Water bill or $250
- We helped 1 household with a New Albany Municipal Utility bill for $250.
Additionally,
1. Conference President Tim Naville spoke to a gathering of 137 OLPH schoolchildren in the fifth to eighth grades about the work that SVDP does in our community. Prior to the meeting, the school had asked for donations to SVDP from the children, and the school presented a check to our conference for $393.00 to use to help our neighbors
2. The church staff prepared a Thanksgiving dinner basket for a SVDP neighbor who was faced with having no food for her family on Thanksgiving.
3. Vincentian Cassidy Brown attended the Ozanam Orientation training at St. John-Paul II parish on November 15th and reported back to the conference at our regular meeting in November.
4. Cassidy Brown has returned to serve as our conference Secretary, leaving only the position of Vice-President unfilled.
5. OLPH Conference partnered with Holy Family SVDP to donate a kitchen table and chairs to a neighbor who had just moved and had little to no furniture in her new apartment.
St. Mary Annunciation Conference, Floyds Knobs, Marilyn Banet – President:
In September, we helped 12 families, total of 39 neighbors in the amount of $1690.95. In October we helped 11 families of 39 neighbors in the amount of $ 1540.95. We are getting on average 30 calls a day for assistance. Most of the bills are for rent or electricity and over $1000.00. We help what we can. We have 4 new members. I know 2 went to Ozanam training on Nov 15th. One was unable to go and didn’t know if the 4th one went. We are working on home visits with 2 of them. We are planning our Christmas get together on December 9th. The treasurer assures me she will have the annual report done by November 30th.
Still working on a new President.
Holy Family Conference, New Albany – Dan Schmidt, President:
We have just completed the distribution of 3 food boxes and a $20 ham each to 50 families mostly in Floyd County for Thanksgiving. We are now beginning to assemble the food boxes for those 50 families for Christmas. In addition, we are also collecting 310 angel tree gifts for those families.
We are trying to schedule furniture pickup and deliveries on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday morning, weather permitting. We have a steady flow of donations and a seemingly endless need.
The conference is financially in good shape. Our daily calls for assistance has recently thankfully dropped from between 10 to 15 calls every day to 5 to 7 calls. We are on track to complete our annual report by November 30.
St. Mary’s Conference, Floyds Knobs – Gayle Schrank, President:
Assistance Report for October & November 2025
Helped 37 households
• Including 49 adults and 46 children
• Spent $5,501.03
• Assisted with rent, utilities and food
• Delivered 66 Thanksgiving boxes to families we have helped this year
• Received food from parishioners and Boy Scout Troops
