Other Community Support

Here is information about some of our other programs and activities that support our island community: 

• We actively support the Fairwinds counseling center.  In cooperation with its board and executive director, we provide meal cards to a staff that has seen demand for its services soar in recent years.
• We learned that middle school students at the Nantucket Public Schools, whether attending in person or online, benefit from a nutritious mid-morning snack. In co-operation with the public school system, we provide these snacks for distribution by the school staff.

• For many years, our congregation has made donations to the island's Food Pantry. It provides free food to the island's needy, and by its calculation, almost 25% of our island families make use of the pantry during the course of a year.  Recently, volunteers from St. Paul's have been working in the pantry, and Father Max has recently become the president of the Interfaith Council that manages the pantry and the island's Food, Fuel and Rental and Assistance program.

• For almost five years, we have been involved with the Episcopal Church in Cuba. The pandemic made it difficult to continue our work in there because of restrictions on travel and other conditions. We hope to resume it in the future.  This activity has had both diocesan and private funding. Among other things, we supplied a well-water purification system that, for the first time, made it possible for a town there to enjoy safe water.