Archive

Many grocery stores are delighted to donate their surplus of unsold perishables from their bakeries, butcher departments and produce aisles, but without the help of volunteers, playfully referred to as "Food Rescuers", this priceless food will not make it to the plate. Everyday, Our Daily Bread plates nearly 100 casseroles generously prepared, donated and served [...]

Every Sunday after lunch, Happy Helpers for the Homeless visits Our Daily Bread Employment Center to distribute food, toiletries, clothing, shoes, blankets, toys and books to the homeless. They bring 60 or more volunteers; some are adults but most are teens. The volunteers emphasize that they come not just to share things, but to share [...]

For Warren, breakfast at Our Daily Bread is more than just the most important meal of the day. “There is a real camaraderie between the staff, volunteers and those of us eating breakfast. Sarah [the ODB breakfast program assistant] just makes your day…all of the staff and volunteers are always courteous and helpful. It is [...]

Our Daily Bread Employment Center serves warm nutritious meals to over 700 individuals and families every day. It takes a lot of help and support to make sure that each and every one of our clients is served daily and treated as respected and welcomed guests. This means that dedicated regular volunteers and donors are [...]

Summer is a time of revitalization and a chance to renew one’s spirit. The men of Christopher Place Employment Academy’s Class 33 had the opportunity to renew their spirits by participating in a three-day reflective retreat at Seneca Rocks in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forrest this summer. The trip was organized in partnership with the [...]

For most of us, we spent Christmas Day 2007, enjoying family, friends and reminiscing about Christmas’s past. For one Maryland Re-Entry Partnership client, Ray Sharp, this was his first Christmas as a free man since 1969. You see, Ray has spent most of his life in and out of prison. This vacillating tour of our [...]

The story of Our Daily Bread (ODB) began in the 1970s in the kitchen of the rectory of the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Cathedral Street. Homeless people would come to the kitchen door of the rectory for food and the pastor and sisters generously provided [...]

Antonio Hammond completed his Capstone event to become "job ready" and enters a six-month program that prepares individuals to work as laboratory associates in various fields. “It had been almost seven years since I worked and received a paycheck from a real job,” said Antonio Hammond as he completed the Capstone event at Christopher Place [...]

When Michelle came into the Our Daily Bread Employment Center, she was nine months pregnant, distressed, angry and with feet so swollen her shoes could barely be removed. She had exhausted all known options in the realm of housing and needed to find a place to stay before she gave birth, or her new baby [...]