As we start the year 2020, we have many issues to face, ideas to weigh, and people to meet. In 2019, we started our housing and student… Read more “From the Director – February 2020”

Christmas is upon us!!  Once again the door went up at 5:00 A.M. on October 5, 2019 and there were four mothers waiting to sign up their… Read more “The Director’s Chair – December 2019”

Welcome to the Christmas Season! Once again, we are reaching out to you for a donation of your hard earned cash so that we can continue our… Read more “Christmas Appeal Letter 2019”

It is with great sadness that we inform you all that a beloved volunteer, John, passed away last month. John was a constant fixture in The LittleStore,… Read more “John Johnson Memorial”

All I can say is, it was “a day from hell!” Usually when you get to this part of Streetlights you find a story about those we… Read more “What Urban Missionaries Do”

Can you believe it? It has been forty years since that day in October 1979 when Kathy and I,  listening to Fr. Paul Tougas, director of the… Read more “40th Anniversary Celebration”

(Hi everyone! This is Jeffrey Hall. For a change of pace, I thought I would include an article from my point of view about my work as… Read more “Saint Anthony’s Prayer”

Did you ever hear the phrase WWJD? Well, I have more times than I would care to admit. It translates to “What Would Jesus Do?” It has… Read more “What Urban Missionaries Do”

Once again, I have to awaken that Christmas spirit in you, and I do know some of you are thinking, “This is way too soon!” I assure… Read more “Christmas Giving Program 2019”

Well, we are coming out of our winter time and things are heating up as spring approaches. We have been busily working on a number of projects… Read more “From the Director’s Chair”

Once again we are taking on a larger than life problem, the housing of newly arrived refugees, immigrants, and asylees. Since our very beginning, we have struggled… Read more “Saint Stephen Housing Initiative”

My first memory of Bruce is when I was studying for the diaconate program at Barlin Acres in West Boylston. He was the maintenance man. He was… Read more “Deacon Bruce R. Vidito”

You have heard me say many times in the past, “there is no such thing as an easy day.” When Kathy and I were on vacation in… Read more “What Urban Missionaries Do”

February 2nd was a cold, cold day and rather quiet in the Little Store because of the cold.  Riley was on the front counter and Walter and… Read more “Macey’s Clothing Drive”

Our biggest source of volunteers far and away is from parishes and schools. It is also the biggest source of energy, noise, and fun times, not to… Read more “Groups, a blessing of the special kind”

(Hello everyone! We recently had a great group of super-motivated students from Assumption College come to The LittleStore to give a hand. They were great to work… Read more “Through Service, Providing Global Relief, in Worcester”

Once again we had our visit from Ed Lee, the owner of the buildings we occupy. Ed travels from China, where his factory is, to the U.S… Read more “Ed’s Visit”

(We have had so many compliments on our fish tank, that we decided to offer another perspective on how we got it! Many of you have read… Read more “It’s a Fish Story”

The month of October was not very kind to us. We have had a cousin, a brother deacon, and a flea market brother die. The loss of… Read more “Death Comes A-Knocking”