{"id":244188,"date":"2026-07-15T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244188\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:45:09","slug":"catholic-heart-work-camp-volunteers-aid-friends-of-the-poor-catherine-mcauley-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244188\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Heart Work Camp volunteers aid Friends of the Poor &#038; Catherine McAuley Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers from Catholic Heart Work Camp were at the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center\u2019s furniture bank and home goods warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton on Wednesday. Catholic Heart is a national organization that hosts weeklong summer mission trips for high school and college students, combining hands-on community service with Catholic spiritual practices, challenging youth to serve the marginalized while deepening their faith. On Tuesday, the volunteers inventoried various items in the warehouse; they spent Wednesday cleaning and painting. On Thursday, they\u2019re scheduled to be at the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center\u2019s food warehouse on East Elm Street in Scranton to clean and wash vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Alison Corcoran, of Allendale, NJ, paints with other members of the New Jersey-based Church of the Presentation, as part of the Catholic Heart Work Camp at the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center furniture bank and home good warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/STT-L-WORKCAMP-0716-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1859139\" \/>Alison Corcoran, of Allendale, NJ, paints with other members of the New Jersey-based Church of the Presentation, as part of the Catholic Heart Work Camp at the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center furniture bank and home good warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Bailey Gornell, of Waldwick, NJ, and Julia Guarascio, of Nanuet, NY, carry a bed frame as they rearrange the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center furniture bank and home good warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/STT-L-WORKCAMP-0716-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1859140\" \/>Bailey Gornell, of Waldwick, NJ, and Julia Guarascio, of Nanuet, NY, carry a bed frame as they rearrange the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center furniture bank and home good warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Ashlee Hart, of Sloatsburg, NY, helps clean up the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center furniture bank and home good warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/STT-L-WORKCAMP-0716-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1859142\" \/>Ashlee Hart, of Sloatsburg, NY, helps clean up the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center furniture bank and home good warehouse on Fellows Street in Scranton Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers from Catholic Heart Work Camp were at the Friends of the Poor &amp; Catherine McAuley Center\u2019s furniture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181,729],"class_list":["post-244188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}