Our Lady of Perpetual Help<\/a>, where hundreds of volunteers are once again preparing for weeks of Friday fish fry service.<\/p>\nBehind the scenes, organizers say about 200 volunteers help keep the operation running throughout Lent — from cooking shrimp and crab cakes to managing the busy drive-thru lines.<\/p>\n
Longtime volunteer Liz Guerra said she\u2019s spent the past several years overseeing the drive-thru effort, building a team that returns year after year without needing to be asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis group has been with me for the past five years, and every year I never have to ask who is going to help,\u201d Guerra said. \u201cThey\u2019re calling me to come in and do this volunteer. They love doing the drive thru.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guerra said the work is rooted in a sense of service encouraged by church leadership — and in support of the parish\u2019s school.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur priest always tells us to give our time, talent and our treasure — so this is my big part that I can do to help out,\u201d she said. \u201cEverything goes to our OLPH Academy, so it\u2019s a good cause. My son went to school there, so that\u2019s a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n
For many families, volunteering has become a generational commitment.<\/p>\n
Father-and-son volunteers Nieves and Sebastian Cerda said they\u2019ve been helping with the fish fry together for years — starting when Sebastian was just a child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been volunteering since I was maybe in the fourth grade — cleaning these tables here or throwing the trash out,\u201d Sebastian Cerda said. \u201cNow I\u2019m in the back. I cook the shrimp, the hush puppies and the crab cakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Organizers said the effort is truly a team operation, with volunteers of all ages taking on different roles each week — from front-line service to cooking in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Our Lady of Perpetual Help\u2019s fish fry drive-thru<\/a> runs Fridays from 3 to 7 p.m. through March 27. Volunteers will also offer delivery on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLPH\u2019s Friday fish fry drive-thru runs 3 to 7 p.m. through March 27 in Corpus Christi, with delivery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-170876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}