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Outreach & Service ProjectsSTS is dedicated to preparing our students, your children, for their journey into higher education and their future. Outreach and Service is an important part of what they grow to love and take with them. #theSTSdifference
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2025-2026 Service ProjectsDecember 2025-January 2026 / STS Mitten Tree
STS Families and students came together to decorate the "STS Mitten Tree" which provided for the donation of five shopping bags filled with new hats, gloves, and scarves to Catholic Charities Hope House in Dover, NJ.
October-November 2025 / Cross Catholic Outreach's Box of Joy®This Project provides schools, parishes, organizations, and families with an inspiring opportunity to send Christmas gifts to Haiti, Guatemala and other developing countries.STS students and families put together 162 boxes THIS year! As a northern NJ drop-off location serving various Ministries, 15 Shippers (over 250 Boxes of Joy) were collected and shipped out from STS!A #BoxOfJoy is a Christmas “shoe box”, donated and filled with toys, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items, drawings, photos, notes... Each gift includes a rosary and The Story of Jesus, and may be the only Christmas gift children in developing countries are blessed to receive. -
Our students participate in many outreach and service programs to assist individuals and communities in need. Here are some of the organizations and communities that St. Therese School is honored to have helped:
- Backpacks for Teachers: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA
- Baskets of Hope
- Bicycles for Vietnam
- Birth Haven, Newton, NJ
- Bridges Outreach, Inc., Summit, NJ
- Catholic Charities Hope House in Dover, NJ
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Cross Catholic Outreach
- Dunlow Elementary School Library Project, Dunlow, WV
- Eleventh Hour Rescue, Randolph, NJ
- Eva’s Village, Paterson, NJ
- Father John's Animal House, Lafayette, NJ
- Katie’s House, Newton, NJ: Toy Drive for St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Pediatric Oncology, Paterson, NJ
- Katie’s House, Newton, NJ: Buddy Packs for Foster Care Children
- Kindness for Christopher
- Missionary Childhood Association: Advent Collection
- OAR Organization for Autism Research
- Pinwheels for Peace
- Police Unity Tour
- Quarters for Kenya
- Randolph Regional Animal Shelter
- Roxbury Food Pantry/Social Services
- Samaritan’s Purse: Operation Christmas Child
- Scholastic Pajama Drive
- Shoes for Haiti
- St. Hubert’s Animal Shelter
- St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital: Math-a-Thon
- The American Heart Association: Jump Rope for Heart
- Troopers United
- United Nations Foundation: Nothing But Nets
- World Down Syndrome Day via: Rock the 21 and The Candle Lighters
- Wounded Warrior Project