St. Vincent de Paul Society members are dedicated to assisting the poor and those with needs in our area. Members seek to find the face of Christ in those that they serve.

Volunteers with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Joseph Conference, provide a variety of services to assist the struggling poor in Berrien County. Clients, regardless of religious affiliation or lack of affiliation, are welcome to apply for help during office hours from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays and Wednesdays at the Rose Center. Society volunteers will conduct home visits for those who are unable to travel to the office. Clients can meet with Society volunteers to describe their need for help with utility bills, medicine, advocacy, financial counseling, and transportation.

Society members meet at 7 pm on the first and third Mondays at the Rose Center for prayer, fellowship, and business. Visitors and potential volunteers are welcomed. Those who wish to help but are unable to commit to becoming a member are invited to become associate members or friends. Contributions are greatly appreciated as are prayers for the Society’s mission and volunteers. Call the SVdP at 269-982-3478.

“It is laid down in our Rule, and it has been always understood among us, that in uniting to serve our masters the poor, as St. Vincent de Paul expresses it, our object is not only to relieve material misery, a very laudable purpose in itself, but to aspire, especially, through the practice of that most sublime of virtues “charity” to render ourselves better and more fervent Christians, and to make our poor enter on the same path, if we have the happiness of succeeding.”

-President-General Adolpe Baudon, in his Circular
Letter of January 1, 1877