Coffee Club offers encounter for the needy and volunteers – Catholic Philly

Coffee Club offers encounter for the needy and volunteers

Posted May 5, 2017

Hot coffee and a meal are served with warm friendship for homeless and needy people in Chester at the Coffee Club, a program of the Family Services Center in Delaware County. Read about the Catholic Social Services-run program here. (Photos by Sarah Webb)

Phyllis Floyd and Chuck Fitzgerald serve coffee, danish and breakfast sandwiches at the Coffee Club in the CSS Family Service Center in Chester.
Charles King Jr. has been attending the Coffee Club for almost seven years.
Chuck Fitzgerald circulates through the Coffee Club to make sure everyone has a second helping.
Coffee Club volunteer Kathleen Leary is happy to see Harry Taylor, a resident of Chester, during his visit to the Catholic Social Services-run program. (Sarah Webb)
Mary Stock shows her 2017 Volunteer of the Year Award from Catholic Social Services while volunteering at the Coffee Club in Chester.
Father Anthony Orth volunteers as chaplain to the Coffee Club. Here he chats with some of the guests outside in the garden.
Volunteer Phyllis Floyd helps Charles King Jr. with some hygiene products that she collected after seeing the need among those who visit the Coffee Club.

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