Emmaus House
Emmaus House is a Catholic Worker House whose guests are women and families that are encountering severe distress. We form community with faith based friends as well as with our guests. Working together, we come to recognize the goodness that dwells in each other. Emmaus House is a safe place where people can be who they truly are.
We are neither incorporated nor tax-exempt. Instead of filing paper work and recording statistics, we provide our guests with practical help, emotional support and advocacy, if they wish.
How You Can Help
Send Donation
Giving online has never been more secure, convenient or hassle-free with our one-click donation. We also do accept standard cash and check donations at all of our locations.
Become a Volunteer
You can get involved today by becoming a Volunteer. Sign up and you will be joining a group of change-makers, a network strong enough to impact positive change in the lives of children.
Help with Needs of Emmaus House Guests
Your gift will help to equip children in need with necessary resources, training and education while offering the promise of a brighter future. You can make a difference today by signing up.
Financial donations are used to benefit all those families and neighbors in need that are served by Emmaus House.
The Albany Catholic Worker Community is supported by prayers, financial donations, and the income from our occasional part-time work. We don’t accept government support.
We serve people without getting paid a salary for our work at Emmaus House.
We believe that anything beyond what we immediately need belongs to those who go without.
Winter 2019-2020
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Recent News
- Spotlight from our NewsletterMpume Zondi, a former resident of Emmaus House and an enduring member of the Emmaus House family, sent us greetings at Christmas time in a letter revealing sorrowful information about Covid-19 in her country and the loss of her beloved mother, Gogo Celestine Zondi.
- The Ignatian Volunteer at Emmaus House“I think these potatoes are bad,” we concluded while preparing dinner at our just-opened Emmaus House kitchen in 1996. Dick Shirey had brought us a donation: a large box of potatoes from Roxbury Biodynamic Farm. But when we cut into the first potato, we noticed the inside was blue. Same with the second andContinue reading “The Ignatian Volunteer at Emmaus House”
- Lots of veggies ready for pickingToday we have collard greens, peas, green beans, strawberries, lettuce and cucumbers. Come and get them. They will be on a table out front.
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