Stories of Inspiration

Welcome to Catholic Charities New Hampshire’s blog. What you will find within these pages are true stories that demonstrate how simple acts of caring, mentoring and guidance build independence and hope.

Love Part III: Loving the Earth

“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”—Anonymous Oh…Mother earth. What are we doing? In our quest to be more efficient, more productive, we are sapping our planet and are on a course to self-destruction. This cannot...

Moving Lives Forward: NH Food Bank’s Culinary Training Program

“I have the coolest job ever, we take unemployed people and teach them a skill while feeding the hungry.”—Chef Paul Morrison The NH Food Bank’s Culinary Training Program (CTP) aims to teach unemployed or underemployed adults the...

Love Part II: Loving Oneself

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”– Brian Andreas In order to love another fully, completely, and with a pureness that comes...

Handling Holiday Stress

By guest blogger Jim Fennel MANCHESTER – Andy would go to holiday parties every year and see his friends and colleagues cheerfully caught up in the season. They were in good spirits, enjoying a time that many of us eagerly...

Books For Christmas

This Christmas, the staff at OUR PLACE would like to give the gift of reading. You can help. Many of the young parents at OUR PLACE don’t have books for their children. Reading to children as newborns through pre-K is...