• The Doorbell Soup Kitchen provides a hot, nutritious lunch consisting of a hot entree or sandwich, soup, a cold drink and desert.
• The Jubilee Senior Action Center (JSAC) offers seniors and their friends lunch and a variety of social, educational and recreational programs.
• The Thursday Night Supper serves a nutritious dinner to approximately 120 guests each week, in cooperation with faith communities and other groups from the metro-Boston area. The Supper also serves as a site for the City of Boston's Needle Exchange Program.
• The Food Pantry, supported by private donations, and supplies from the Greater Boston Food Bank, each week distributes some thirty bags of groceries.

For over 100 years, the Church of St. John the Evangelist has provided food, comfort and respite for poor, homeless and elderly persons living in Boston. This tradition of hospitality continues today through the programs of Neighborhood Action, Incorporated, the social justice ministry of the parish.

• ...donating non-perishable food and good used clothing;
• ...volunteering to serve at the Doorbell lunches, Food Pantry, or Thursday Night Super;
• ...making a financial contribution to Neighborhood Action, Incorporated, a 501 c3 corporation;
• $60 provides JSAC with two weeks of luncheon and programming;
• $100 covers stocking and distribution costs for our food pantry for one week;
• $125 covers the cost of the Doorbell Lunch for one day;
• $575 covers the cost of preparing and serving all of our meals for one week.

What people say about NAI...

"There's twenty people I know who died out there - drugs, alcohol, or froze. This place has saved my life."
                                                    a guest

"I talk to people who go to a lot of programs like this. they say Neighborhood Action is their favorite place because the atmosphere here is welcoming, non-judgemental, and safe."
                                               a seminarian

"I feel so bad for myself, then I come here and see the problems other people have and I feel so lucky. this place is like medicine for me!"
                    a volunteer and JSAC member

"I five one and a half hours a week. It isn't a long time, but it means a lot to 120 people. People need to give a little time."
                      a Thursday supper volunteer

"I enjoy the social part, the food is excellent, and all the good times and laughs"
                                          a JSAC member