Tender Mercies

We prepare and serve a Sunday dinner for 50+ people in Over-the-Rhine each month.

Sign-ups to donate are held on the second Sunday of the month; the meal is served on the third Sunday.

Tender Mercies in Over the Rhine provides housing and individualized supportive services to homeless persons with histories of mental illness. Tender Mercies has a goal that residents are provided with at least one meal a day. Residents do not have the facilities to cook in their rooms and depend upon volunteer organizations to bring in meals each day.

Good Shepherd is the volunteer organization serving dinner the third Sunday of each month.  Volunteers sign up at an Activity Center on the second Sunday of each month to provide the food and drinks, serve the meal, or both.  Food is dropped off in the Walk-In Cooler behind the Atrium bar when the volunteers come to Mass on the third Sunday.  Teams of four to six volunteers pick up the food, organize it, heat items that need heating, and transport it to the Tender Mercies facility.  All of the items required to serve the meal (paper plates, cups, napkins) are also brought and the meal is served in a buffet line in the common area of the residence.