We’re a non-profit charitable organization passionate about serving those in need in the Greater Akron area with prepared meals, clothing, friendships, and warm hearts.
The Shelter will be open:·
Thursday night: January 2nd·
Friday night: January 3rd·
Saturday night: January 4th ·
Sunday night : January 5th
Monday Night 1/6/2025
Tuesday Night 1/7/2025
Wednesday Night 1/8/2025
Thursday Night 1/9/2025
Friday Night 1/10/2025
Saturday night: January 11th ·
Sunday night : January 12th
Monday Night 1/13/2025
Tuesday Night 1/14/2025
Wednesday Night 1/15/2025
Saturday Night 1/18/2025
Sunday Night 1/19/2025
Monday Night 1/20/2025
Tuesday Night 1/21/2025
Wednesday Night 1/22/2025
We desperately need volunteers - especially in the mornings. The morning hours are from 6:30 AM until between 8:30 - 9:00 AM whenever we are open. (The evening hours are 6-6:30 PM until 9-9:30 PM.)The web-site for the Sign-Up Genius is:
http://www.akronemergencyshelter.org
This will be the 12th Year for the EOS. The location this year is the same as it has been for the past four years;111 E. Voris Street adjacent to the CSS Homeless Outreach facility. We are hoping for two dozen volunteers to assist with the build of the shelter. Activities will include discarding un-needed, leftover materials; assembling sleeping areas; verifying kitchen appliances work; putting together bedding bundles and a myriad of other pre-shelter duties.
AKRON EMERGENCY OVERNIGHT SHELTER (www.akronemergencyshelter.org)
AKRON EMERGENCY OVERNIGHT SHELTER111 East Voris Street, Akron 44311 (Former Family Promise Facility at the CSS Outreach Building)
Please pass this information along to your contacts and staff. Many hands make every burden lighter !
We KNOW that The EOS has had a positive effect on those who are unsheltered. Literally thousands of men and women have been our overnight guests throughout the years.
While we all enjoy safe, secure dwellings and sleep in warm, comfortable beds, regardless of their circumstances, our guests stay with us because they have no place better to be or they would be there. We'll never know the impact we have had on keeping our guests safe... we DO KNOW that 100% of them have left us the following morning safe and intact.
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us on the 7th to help have a positive impact of those folks that need our help the most.
May God bless you all.
Happy Thanksgiving !
David Churbock
Director at The Peter Maurin Center
The Feed My Sheep Ministry has been serving the North Hill area ofAkron for 35 years.
This ministry is now a part of Peter Maurin Center.They are located at Redeemer North Hill United Methodist Church.
Feed My Sheep currently serves lunch every Friday from 11:30 AMuntil 1:00 PM. They also have a clothing department for good, usedclothes.We have plans to add a Food Pantry in the near future.Feed My Sheep will only get stronger under the umbrella of PMC.
"Foxes have dens, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."
The Peter Maurin Center is a place of giving – hope, love, faith, prepared meals, and warm clothing. Our mission is to serve individuals and families who are unsheltered and marginalized in the Greater Akron area. We’re a non-profit charitable organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code.
Our facilities and community extends spiritual and corporal works of mercy in accordance with Matthew 25:31-46, as expressed in Catholic social teaching. At The Peter Maurin Center, we don’t have any paid staff, only volunteers who are as passionate about extending a helping hand as we are.
I have been privileged to volunteer at the Peter Maurin Center for the last 8 to 10 years, generally to prepare and serve lunch on Fridays. I act as a stock boy, sous chef, a cook in training, the guy who opens forty cans for beans, potato peeler extraordinaire, a greeter of guests, a server, a dishwasher. I sweep floors and wash tables. After serving dinner and while cleaning up I and others set aside food for the Saturday's Matthew 8:20 group of volunteers.
From the smallest crumb to a pair of socks, and even a friendly face of hope, The Peter Maurin Center invites anyone who loves community to join us in doing good deeds for those in need. Every single person and effort means the world.
