Love Truck Ministry

General Information:

Love Truck provides for the physical needs of the poor in Dallas and Collin Counties with food and clothing. In addition, Love Truck provides for special programs such as Christmas gifts, Back-to-School supplies and shoes, summer box fans and winter coats.

Please bring your donations ONLY on the collection weekend and ONLY when the garage is attended with volunteers.

Do not leave items outside the garage, in the narthex of the church or at the Parish Activity Building or Faith Formation Center during the rest of the month.

Love Truck Supports:
Minnie’s Food Pantry, St. Vincent de Paul, Catholic Charities,  and Agape Resource & Assitance Center.

For more information contact:
Denny Beran at 972-517-8412 or
Chris Rod at lovetruckvols@sbcglobal.net or 214-450-9351
 

Information for Donors:

The Love Truck Food List is in the bulletin on the first full weekend of every month.  Go to Connect in the main menu to access the bulletins.  It is also posted at the top of this page.

Love Truck does not do pick-ups.  Please do not contact Love Truck to arrange a pick-up.  If you need to have items picked up, you may consider calling St. Vincent de Paul at 214-373-7837 or at svdpdallas.org.

Starting with the October 2019 collection, Love Truck will no longer be taking furtniture.

If you are trying to donate furniture, please consider donating to: SVdP - please contact them at the number above for more information.  Love Truck cannot pick up your furniture and we will not accept it at our collection at the church.  Cahtolic Charities, one of the ministries we support has advised us that they can no longer take furniture donation. 972-596-0253

We can only accept Food and Clothing items at this time.  Love Truck cannot accept: household items, toys, furniture, computers, computer montiors, computer parts or accessories, printers, fax machines, mattresses, seasonal decorations, or  flat-TVs).  This list may change at any time based on the ministries Love Truck supports.

Remember, do not leave donations unless the garage is open and attended by volunteers.
 

Information for Volunteers:

Love Truck is always in need of cleared adult volunteers to help supervise the collection weekends (shift leaders).  The collection weekends are described more below.  Shift Leaders volunteer for the same amount of time as other volunteers but commit ahead of time to being at the collection for a specific shift.  If you are interested in becoming a shift leader, please e-mail or call us at the above contact information.

The basic volunteer opportunity that Love Truck has is our monthly collection weekend.  Once a month, we sort donated food and clothing for delivery to various agencies in Plano and Dallas.

Regular volunteers can be added to our e-mailing list so they receive a reminder.  There is no official sign-up, drop-ins are always welcome and shift leaders are always there to guide new volunteers.  There is no need to contact us to ask if we have room for you to volunteer.  We will never turn volunteers away.   Volunteers are asked to wear a face mask and gloves when volunteering.

Children are welcome but children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult.  If a child under 13 is dropped off we will ask them to call their parents to come get them.  Children 13 and over will be supervised by an adult while they are volunteering but Love Truck shift leaders will not be responsible for checking them in or out during the collection.