Women's Guild

The Sacred Heart Parish Women's Guild is a community of 130+ women who contribute to our parish and our surrounding community. The purpose is to provide an opportunity to become better acquainted with women of our parish and to support the parish through various activities and fundraising.

We would love to have you join Women's Guild! As a member you can participate in any or all of these activities: attend meetings and events, help plan and facilitate the service projects, and staff social events and fundraisers.

The Annual Membership Fee is $20. Members over the age of 80 pay no fee! To be a member, you must be 18 years of age. 

If you wish to join, please CLICK HERE and complete the membership form. 
 

"God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us." Romans 5:5

Deadline for Valentines This Weekend
This is the final weekend to drop off Valentines for nursing home and homebound residents. There’s a basket on the countertop in the gathering space to place them. Thanks for all the pretty Valentines that Guild members and other parishioners have made for nursing home & homebound residents so far!
 
Serving the Salvation Army
Thank you to the dozens of Women’s Guild members and others who donated 20 dozen, hard-boiled eggs and made 50 egg casseroles. The Salvation Army provides this food in its mobile breakfast program across the city.
 
Food Pantry Service Projects: Feb. 7
A birthday cake is a rare treat for those in tough times. Can you help us put together some fun and easy cake kits for the DMARC food pantry? We will make the kits from donations at our Feb. 7 meeting. The ingredients include cake mix, frosting, lemon-lime soda, frosting, candles, and disposable foil cake pans with lids. You can sign up here to donate those items: Sacred Heart Women's Guild: Food Pantry Birthday Cake Boxes (signupgenius.com). If the online sign-up form is full, we still welcome your donations and will simply make more kits. We also request that parishioners consider donating food items to the pantry, especially peanut butter, whole-grain cereal, and canned fruit. There’s a red bin in the parish center kitchen starting this weekend for any of these DMARC pantry donations. Any questions, feel free to contact Guild President Stephanie Latting at [email protected] or (515) 225-4402.
 

The Women's Guild is made up of 116 members who are trying to live our faith through service and charitable contributions to our parish and community as well as socially connect our members on a monthly basis with service projects for our community and interesting speakers.

Throughout the year, the Women's Guild sponsors many special service projects including donations from Parishioners to the Jesse Tree project that supports our local retirement communities, our annual School Supply drive for local schools, a Winter Wearables drive that provides coats, boots, hats and mittens for Catholic Charities, sending Christmas cards to homebound Parishioners & Welcome Cards to new Parishioners as well as making Valentines for Seniors in the local retirement communities. 

Our Guild members also volunteer many hours of service by either providing donations or preparing meals for the Catholic Worker House, providing desserts for the Cafe Connection home as well as prepare casseroles for the Family Violence Center, provide Back to School & End of Year blessing bags to teachers & staff at Sacred Heart and provide volunteers for many other parish activities when asked.  The proceeds the Guild received from our annual Bake Sale & Fish Fry allowed us to distribute $5,900 in grants to parish & community organizations to support their mission of helping others in our community.
We strive to give back to our community & live our faith in all that we do each & every day.