Category: Volunteer Opporutnity

Volunteer for Christmas Food Baskets Delivery

WHERE:
St. Leo’s Hall 109 South Main Street (Hall behind St Andrew’s Catholic Church)

WHEN:
Set up will be on Sunday 12/18 beginning at 11:00 am
Distribution is Tuesday 12/20 from 9 am to 2 pm, set up 8 am, clean up 2-4.

VOLUNTEER NEEDS

SUNDAY 12/18 — SET UP

11am — Pick up items from the Food Shelf and Village Market to bring to St Leo’s Hall for set up.

NEED: 3+ volunteers (with ample car space 🙂

11 am (until we finish): arrange tables, set up tote bags, fill bags with nonperishable items, organize materials for Tuesday, last-minute errands/items, lots of recycling.

NEED: ~6-8 volunteers

TUESDAY 12/20 — DISTRIBUTION DAY


Set up 8-9, distribution 9-2, clean up 2-4

8:00 am — Pick up items from Village Market on Tuesday 12/20 at ~8:00 to bring to St Leo’s Hall before 8:15am

NEED: 3+ volunteers with lots of car space

8:00 am to 4 pm — Volunteers needed for the following tasks:

  • Set up outdoor tables, signage, and tents (8/8:15 am)
  • Indoor volunteers to continually stuff tote bags with meal kit items (8:15-2)
  • Indoor/outdoor volunteers to run tote bag sets from inside to outside for distribution (9-2)
  • Outdoor (but can rotate inside) volunteer to bring tote bags to clients’ cars (9-2)
  • Outdoor volunteer to check off names as clients drive-thru (essential!!) (9-2)
  • Turkey/ham helpers (outdoor) to fetch turkey/ham from truck once clients choose which they’d like (most likely will be volunteers from the Masons)
  • Pick up pizza for volunteers at lunchtime (12 pm)
  • 2-4 pm clean up at Hall and bring leftover goods to Food Shelf, and lots of recycling!

Zoom Ministry Volunteer!

Our commitment to providing an online experience for anyone who cannot join us in person continues. The Deacons have streamlined the process so that all that is required of the operator is to set up the computer and camera in the back of the sanctuary and follow the action by zooming and panning the camera as needed.

We can teach you how to do this in 5 minutes. Please consider helping by using this sign-up form:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44A9AB2DA1FC1-zoom

Thank you!

Volunteer to Shovel on Sunday Morning!

We need some help! The link below will take you to a sign-up where you can volunteer to shovel the front walk. Unlike past years, we’re just asking you to take responsibility for Sunday morning and not the whole week. (If you sign up and it snows during the week and you want to go at it — please do!) It would be great if it were shoveled by 9 am.

Here’s the signup form: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44A9AB2DA1FC1-snow

Thank you!

CROP Hunger Walk

Our Board of Outreach has set the date for this year’s walk for Sunday, October 2, 2022. The CROP Hunger Walk is a way of raising awareness and money in the fight against poverty and hunger. The walk began in 1947 making it one of the longest-running fund-raisers and is now an important part of Church World Service’s efforts around the world to ending hunger including right here in our own community as they donate 25% of the money a walk raises to the local food-shelf.

Our walk is at 1 pm, from the church.

Please consider helping! You can help by signing up to walk. This year, as in the past several, we plan on walking the loop around Waterbury: We’ll head west on Main St, turn left on Winooski St, cross the river and head back east on the River Rd. At Rt 100 we’ll take another left and shortly after that, find ourselves back on Main Street, heading back to church. It’s a 3-mile walk. Sign up to walk at our event page online: https://events.crophungerwalk.org/2022/team/waterbury

You can also help by sponsoring a walker. Go to the same page linked above and instead of clicking on “join,” click on “donate.” and enter Waterbury as team name.

Let’s Do a Little Project!

Once again, our church will be one of about 3 or 4 collection points in the Northeast where Churches may drop of kits they’ve assembled to assist Church World Service in their disaster relief efforts around the world. The semi-tractor trailer truck will make its rounds through the Northeast in early May to pick up all of these kits and take them to their national distribution center in Baltimore, MD.

We’d like to contribute, not only by being a “Kit Depot” but by contributing some of our own kits to the cause as well. The Board of Outreach invites you to help by making a hygiene kit or three and dropping them off at the church by the first of May.

Instructions are simply enough: purchase the item and the size listed below and pack them into a one-gallon plastic zip-lok bag. Do not add money or extra items.

  • One hand towel measuring approx. 15×28 to 16×32 inches (no finger, bath, dish or micro-fiber towels, please).
  • One washcloth.
  • One wide-tooth comb removed from the package.
  • One fingernail or toenail clipper removed from the package.
  • One bath-size bar of soap in the wrapper.
  • One toothbrush in the package.
  • Ten standard-sized Band-aids.

(Please note the CWS will add toothpaste to the kits once in hand.)

When you’re finished — please drop them off at church. There’s a box in the coat room off the side entrance. The door is open Tues – Friday till about 4 pm (sometimes later — but call ahead if you want to drop it off at a different time).

If you’re around the church during the first week in May, you will notice boxes and buckets that have arrived from around Vermont to be picked up by the CWS truck on May 7 or so, piling up in our dining room.

Thank you!