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Iowa City Catholic Worker celebrates one-year anniversary
Community member David Goodner; advisory board members Angel Hernandez and Tess Judge-Ellis; community member Emily Sinnwell; and advisory board members Sarah Thomas, Evalee Mickey and Juan Manuel Galvez Ibarra. — photo courtesy of Iowa City Catholic Worker
POSTED BY ELEANORE TAFT | APR 28, 2017
Iowa City Catholic Worker, an organization that provides food and shelter to those in need, celebrates its one-year anniversary with a benefit dinner this Sunday, featuring live music by the Home Brewed Blues Band.
“They’re like a local garage band that hosts benefit concerts and fundraisers all over town,” Iowa City Catholic Worker co-founder David Goodner said. The event will also include a raffle, a silent auction, a short program around 5 p.m. and lots of Mexican food donated by local restaurants.
“The Catholic Worker Movement was started on May 1 in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, during the height of the great depression,” Goodner said. In contrast to other charities, “the Catholic Worker is generally more of an intentional community,” Goodner said. “Our ministry really is to serve the poor,” he said, citing the life of Jesus Christ and a biblical passage from Matthew 25 as inspiration for the organization’s work:
“‘For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ – Matthew 25:35-37.”
Iowa City Catholic Worker particularly aims to serve unaccompanied youth ages 16-21, women leaving prison, migrant farmworkers and refugees. On May 1, 2016 they made an offer on a historic victorian house in Southeast Iowa City, and within two months had raised enough money for a down payment. Since then, they took in $100,000 in donations in their first fiscal year.
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