Fort Walton Beach News & Events

Staff from the Fort Walton Beach regional office recently made a special delivery to Crestview. Read all about it in this article from the Crestview News Bulletin: http://www.crestviewbulletin.com/faith/faith-news/catholic-charities-brings-toy-distribution-to-crestview-1.67963  

A band of dedicated volunteers worked like Santa’s elves to design and build an amazing float for the Fort Walton Beach Christmas parade. The parade theme was “My Favorite Christmas Movie,” and the Fort Walton Beach regional office chose to represent “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Our theme was “Every time a bell rings, an angel [...]

The Fort Walton Beach regional office will close at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 21 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 26. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

More than 200 people were on hand to celebrate the inaugural Dogwood Gala at the Hurlburt Field Soundside Club on October 5. The event, which benefitted the Fort Walton Beach regional office’s programs, spotlighted the good work of the staff and volunteers of the agency, and highlighted the many people who have been helped over [...]

In an ongoing effort to provide help and hope to Florida Panhandle individuals and families adversely affected by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in 2010, Executive Director Mark Dufva of Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida  announced a new jobs initiative today known as Spirit Works.  Read Full Story Here!  

Katherine Kowalski, a rising sophomore at Navarre High School, recently donated nearly $600 worth of groceries and other merchandise to the Fort Walton Beach office’s food pantry. She paid for the items with money she saved from baby-sitting. Thank you, Katherine! You are a real inspiration to all of us!

  The Fort Walton Beach office of Catholic Charities was one of the beneficiaries of the annual Letter Carriers Food Drive in May. The food pantry was blessed with hundreds of pounds of non-perishable food items to help feed people in need. The pantry, which is located in the old St. Mary Church building on [...]

  The Fort Walton Beach regional office of Catholic Charities invites you to “save the date” for our upcoming Celebration of Caring Charity Gala on October 5 at the Hurlburt Soundside Club. We have an exciting evening planned, so keep watching as more details become available. If you would like to participate in planning our event, or [...]

Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida’s Fort Walton Beach office is excited to bring “Painting with a Twist” to Okaloosa County! Painting with a Twist is a fun-filled, two-hour “class” that allows even the most artistically challenged person to paint their version of a delightful work of art. Everything you need to paint your masterpiece is [...]

Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida is pleased to be able to announce some very exciting news.  With the gracious offer of Msg.Mike Cherup, from St. Mary’s Catholic Church,  to lease the Old St. Mary’s Church a restoration project was started on the interior and exterior of the church.  The project involve installing a new roof, [...]