Volunteer Opportunities
Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve:
to give, and not to count the cost,
to fight, and not to heed the wounds,
to toil, and not to seek for rest,
to labor, and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do your will.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
The following are major volunteer short-term opportunities for the coming year. The Outreach Center can assist you or your small group, circle, etc. in identifying other opportunities. Contact The Rev. Mike Bradshaw at 723-4391, ext. 1502 or by email for further information or download a copy of the 2011-2012 Volunteer Opportunities Brochure (PDF).
Stop Hunger Now
Parish families and friends are invited to come to the church to help package easy-to-assemble dried meals for delivery around the world where survivors of tragic ordeals need free, easy-to-prepare food and other emergency supplies, to handle the crisis situations that have befallen them. St. Paul’s participants will work in an assembly-line fashion mixing, weighing, and bagging a dehydrated flavoring mix consisting of 21 essential vitamins with fortified rice-soy-vegetable products for nutritious meals so that adults and children will not go hungry. More details coming soon!
This is an excellent project to address Millennium Development Goal One: To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
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American Heart Walk
Join the St. Paul's team and make a difference in our community. In the past the American Heart Association rasied $500,000 in Forsyth County. A significant portion of these funds was used locally for research, professional education, and advocacy. Heart disease and stroke are our Nation's No. 1 and No. 3 killers claiming more than 910,000 American lives a year. Come join our team to help each of our own families live stronger and longer lives. More details coming soon!
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Blood Drive
Now it's more convenient than ever to save lives by donating blood right in you own Church. Six volunteers are needed in 2 hour shifts between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to assist with registration and snacks during the Annual All Saints' Day and Good Friday Blood Drive. Many blood donors are also needed! Make sure you sign up to "Give the Gift of Life." More details coming soon!
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Samaritan Ministries
From November 1st to November 8th, St. Paul's is committed to provide six volunteers a night to assist with serving dinner, socialization, monitoring in two hour shifts during the night, and serving breakfast at the homeless shelter on Patterson Avenue. Each night's committment is from 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. More details coming soon!
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Christmas Toy Drive
In November St. Paul's will collect toys to be distributed to families through the Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministries for Christmas delivery.
The collection will culminate in November with a festive, family oriented Gift Bagging-Stocking Stuffing Party. Twelve volunteers are needed to setup and coordinate the "package and label" stations.
This is a fun, quick job - recruit your firends and join us. More details coming soon!
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Mississippi Mission Trip
Camp Coast Care is located on the campus of Coast Episcopal School at 5065 Espy Avenue, Long Beach, MS. Since the first days after Hurricane Katrina, they have offered help to survivors in the form of a distribution center for food, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene products, clothing and free medical services. Camp Coast Care has also hosted thousands of volunteers from all over the world who have come to rebuild lives, homes and communities.
St. Paul's went to Mississippi in 2009. The focus of that week was working on individual homes doing a variety of jobs including sheetrock installation, carpentry, roofing, plumbing, etc. Volunteer workcrews were composed of individuals with all levels of skill. There was also on-campus jobs for volunteers that are vital to camp life including intake, kitchen and dining room assistants, facility and grounds maintenance, data entry, and general office work.
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Good Friday Blood Drive
Now it's more convenient than ever to save lives by donating blood right in you own Church. Six volunteers are needed in 2 hour shifts between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to assist with registration and snacks during the Annual All Saints' Day Blood Drive. Many blood donors are also needed! Make sure you sign up to "Give the Gift of Life." More details coming soon!
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Costa Rica Mission Partnership Trip
The Diocese of North Carolina has long enjoyed a strong relationship with the Diocese of Costa Rica. In December of 2005, our Diocese entered its second five-year commitment with the people and parishes of this lovely and hospitable country. In August of 2007, 35 members of St. Paul's traveled to Costa Rica and in June of 2008, 41 members of St. Paul's again traveled to Costa Rica to join in the on-going service and friendship with Costa Rica's Bishop Hector Monterroso, his clergy, staff and welcoming people. Together, NC parishes are actively helping to build the Episcopal Church in Costa Rica by addressing health care needs, daycare and education needs, church maintenance and new church planting.
St. Paul's will have both youth and adult mission teams serving Costa Rica in 2011. Our teams will work at Heredia, constructing a day care for impoverished women and their children. The goal of each project is to bring new energy and hope to the people and congregations of Costa Rica. More details coming soon!
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St. Paul's Habitat Wall Build & House Build
St. Paul's Habitat Wall Build Day was on March 21, 2009; We had 30 to 40 volunteers assemble wall frames for our 2009 Habitat Home. Please call the Outreach Office to sign up for the next Habitat Day at 723-4391.
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