Serving the Needy for 40 Years
Community Conversation with Theresa Weissburg - Director of the Sister Isaac Center
For 40 years the Sister Isaac Center has been serving residents across the region. In 1983, Sister Isaac Koenig, a Catholic nun of the Society of St. Ursula, came to Wilmington to serve at St. Mary parish and began assessing the social needs of the local community. She immediately saw that there was a food desert in the area, and those with limited means found it especially difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.
What began as a simple food pantry stocked by parishioner donations quickly sparked neighborhood interest, and soon members of the larger community were spontaneously bringing food and clothing. First named the Tileston Center — after the building in which it is housed — at her retirement in 2016, it was renamed The Sister Isaac Center.
Today, the Sister Isaac Center serves more than 10,000 people per year with food, clothing, housewares, and hygiene items, financial assistance, and most of all, loving concern.
We were pleased to have a conversation about the Sr. Isaac Center with Theresa Weissburg who serves as Director.
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