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The South Brevard Sharing Center (SBSC) was founded in 1971 as a non-profit, community based agency to provide emergency assistance to help families to meet their basic needs. SBSC’s mission to provide emergency services to those in need, serve as a liaison between religious, civic and local organizations and provide an outlet to persons with abundance to readily share financial surplus with those in need. This assistance includes food, clothing, household items, furnishings, appliances, bicycles, as well as utility and rent payments where grants allow.
Once per month our parish community celebrates “Pantry Sunday,” where goods and financial contributions are collected and given to the South Brevard Sharing Center.
We are more than a “soup kitchen.” Daily Bread, Inc. ensures that no one in Brevard County faces hunger or homelessness alone. We have—for more than 30 years—empowered, supported and assisted those confronting financial challenges to become self-sufficient. We do not provide a “hand-out”, rather we offer a “hand -up.” Feeding the hungry and the homeless is an important part of what we do, but is not all that we do. We help individuals – through a comprehensive array of programs and services – navigate their way to self-sufficiency.
Once per month our parish community celebrates “Pantry Sunday,” where goods and financial contributions are collected and given to Daily Bread.

GENESIS HOUSE...A NEW BEGINNING
& BIRTHRIGHT OF MELBOURNE
IT IS THE MISSION of Genesis House to provide emergency shelter for homeless women and their children, long-term housing for student mothers with children, and shelter for homeless pregnant women. Genesis House, Inc. is committed to providing a safe, supportive, caring environment. Education, self-discipline, self-reliance, and independence from public assistance are earnestly promoted. Counseling, personal improvement classes, and appropriate health care are obtained for all residents. We primarily serve the Melbourne, Florida area.
Birthright of Melbourne provides love and support to women facing unplanned pregnancy many of whom are teen mothers and young first-time moms from disadvantaged backgrounds. The center offers free confidential pregnancy testing, information on fetal development and guidance for finding medical care, housing solutions, community services, daycare and legal advice. It also provides parenting education, maternity clothes, baby clothes and baby care items to help new mums. In addition, the center offers information about community resources such as housing referral, referrals for professional counseling to prenatal development, adoption and pregnancy and childbirth. Our helplines are 1.800.550.4900
Monthly our parish community celebrates “Birthright Weekend”. We support the work of Genesis House through financial contributions, as well as Birthright, through our “Penny Sunday Collection.”

“Adult faith formation, by which people consciously grow in the life of Christ through experience, reflection, prayer, and study, must be “the central task in the catechetical enterprise,” becoming “the axis around which revolves the catechesis of childhood and adolescence as well as that of old age.”
Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us, #5
Recognizing that Adult Faith Formation is an indispensable part of evangelization, Immaculate Conception Catholic community began a reinvigoration of Adult Faith Formation over the past year. Our goal is to nurture a culture of mature adult discipleship that is a living, fruitful and explicit profession of faith. Those who wish to evangelize, must first commit themselves to growth and maturity in their own life of faith so that the truth they communicate remains authentic and convincing, rooted and grounded in Christ (Eph 3:17). Our integrated Adult Faith Formation program proceeds on two major levels: spiritual development and intellectual/personal development.