San Gabriel Mission Christian Service Center gave away 211 boxes of food with an accompanying bag of toys on Dec. 23 to local people in need, announced mission Pastor Rev. Bruce Wellems, CMF.

San Gabriel Mission parishioners, friends, people from the community and some local businesses donated the items, and then mission’s Christian Service Center volunteers packed the food and selected toys based upon the ages of the people requesting help.  Greg Quioan, director of mission’s center, says the mission is very thankful for the many people that donated food and or toys. “We say an extra thank you to St. Felicitas & Perpetua Church in San Marino for its parishioners very generous donations, Super A in Temple City for their special discounts on food so we could buy more to donate, and to Mission San Gabriel Council 3517 Knights of Columbus members who collected and donated many food items and toys.”