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CUP is a combined resource of local churches that offers limited financial assistance to those that qualify when funds are available. This assistance is usually limited to $125.00 for rent or utility assistance. If approved the funds are given directly to the utility company or landlord. Please contact them directly for more detailed information.

Only the contemplative mind can bring forward the new consciousness that is needed to awaken a more loving, just, and sustainable world.

Deepening Our Awareness
Contemplation is the practice of being fully present—in heart, mind, and body—to what is in a way that allows you to creatively respond and work toward what could be.

For many, contemplation is prayer or meditation, a daily practice of deep listening to better connect with ourselves and divine love. Father Richard teaches that contemplative prayer helps us sustain the Truth we encounter during moments of great love and great suffering long after the intensity of these experiences wears off. Contemplative prayer is the way we work out the experiences that words elude, how we learn from them and bravely allow ourselves to be transformed by them, even when our normal modes of thinking can’t make sense of them.

Contemplative prayer is a practice for a lifetime, never perfected yet always enough. Each time we pray, our habitual patterns of thinking and feeling will inevitably interrupt and distract us from deep listening, but it is through our repeated failings that we encounter God’s grace and experience a transformed mind (Romans 12:2).

The contemplative mind is about receiving and being present to the moment, to the now, without judgment, analysis, or critique. Contemplative “knowing” is a much more holistic, heart-centered knowing, where mind, heart, soul, and senses are open and receptive to the moment just as it is. “This is how you come to love things in themselves and as themselves. You learn not to divide the field of the moment or eliminate anything that threatens your ego, but to hold everything—both the attractive and the unpleasant—together in one accepting gaze.”

In short, contemplation might be described as entering a deeper silence and letting go of our habitual thoughts, sensations, and feelings in order to connect to a truth greater than ourselves.

Families and individuals who are experiencing a food emergency call 211 and are directed to call FOODline. Volunteers establish the number of people needing help, approximate ages, and their location. We call the pantry that is the best fit (time of day, day of the week, location) and alert them to the need. They tell us what time the caller should pick up the boxed food, which we convey to the caller.