OUT-OF-PARISH SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES

2009-2010

SUNRISE ASSISTED LIVING CENTER: This neighborhood senior assisted living center is looking for volunteers to visit residents: play cards or board games, organize an activity or just enjoy conversation.

Please contact Cindy Senn, the Sunrise Activity and Volunteer Coordinator at (313) 343-0600.

ST. JOHN PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY CARNIVAL: Tuesday, November 3^rd (4:00-8:00 p.m.)

Two volunteer shifts are available. This event takes place in the Grosse Pointe War Memorial main ballroom. This is a very special evening for the children and their families. They get a fun-filled evening away from the hospital and cancer treatments. Assistance is needed with set-up, helping children with games and clean-up. Students, who attend Religious Education on Tuesday night, may only participate AFTER class. Please contact Tricia Kesteloot for additional information at (313) 885-7022, ext. 126.

THE GREENING OF DETROIT PROJECT: Calling all Green Thumbs! Ready to pitch in? This Detroit neighborhood group needs help planting trees to assist in the reforestation of Detroit. Mentor groups will be assigned a designated section of Jefferson Avenue to plant trees on Saturday, November 7^th. Students must arrive at St. Paul no later than 8:15 a.m. We expect to return no later 1:00 p.m. Parents are encouraged to participate as well. Mentor leaders may also contact the organization to work on an alternate weekend. Tree planting events are currently being hosted every weekend during the spring and fall months. There are service opportunities throughout the year. Additional project information may be found on-line at www.greeningofdetroit.com. Please contact Tricia Kesteloot to participate on November 7^th at

(313) 885-7022, ext. 126. To schedule additional service opportunities, please contact Anthony Todd at (313) 237-8733 to sign-up.

MICHIGAN MILITARY MOMS (MMM): This organization will collect items for our military men and women stationed overseas. Volunteers are needed to collect, purchase, and wrap care packages for the troops. Students may volunteer in a variety of different ways, including making letters or cards. Additional program information may be found on-line at www.michiganmilitarymoms@hotmail.com If you are interested in participating, please have your group leader contact Maureen VanHooser at (313) 673-7896.

PRISON FELLOWSHIP ANGEL TREE PROGRAM: This project delivers gifts of love and hope to needy children of prisoners at Christmas time. Volunteers are needed to help collect, organize, wrap and deliver gift items to children on the wish list. This organization is looking for groups to deliver gifts to the homes of children in the Detroit area on Saturday, December 19^th (7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.) Program information can be found on-line at www.angeltree.org. Please contact Lisa Thams at (313) 882-5118 if you have additional questions or would like to sign-up.

VAN ELSLANDER CANCER CENTER: This project was so much fun last year. Students and parents decorated the oncology center for the Christmas season, so it was bright and cheerful for patients. The decorating date is not on the calendar yet, but will most likely be scheduled after Thanksgiving. Please contact Chris Scarfone for additional information (313) 919-8139.

WINDEMERE PARK ASSISTED LIVING CENTER: This community would love to have students come and visit, play games or other activities with their clients. The facility is located in Warren.

Contact Anna Lise, the Activity Director, for more information at 586-979-9674.

FOCUS HOPE: Enlists the support of volunteers for a variety of meaningful projects. Students are needed

to pack and deliver boxes of food to low-income senior citizens who have no transportation or are otherwise unable to pick-up food from the food centers. Volunteer opportunities have flexible times. Groups may also adopt a senior citizen to deliver food to each month. Please call the Focus Hope Food Program at (313) 494-4440 for additional information or to sign-up.

ST. MARY’S NURSING HOME: This community truly enjoys when the students come for a visit. Organized groups are needed to visit residents: play cards or board games, organize an activity or just enjoy conversation. Several groups in the past hosted a tea social for the residents. They served tea and cookies, and visited with the elderly. This facility is located on 9 Mile Road in St. Clair Shores.

Please contact Tina Hein, the Activities Coordinator to sign-up and volunteer (586) 772-4300.

The ARC: GPHW chapter is a national organization of and for people with developmental disabilities.

They work to enhance the quality of their lives by providing necessary supports/services. Help is needed

at 3 special dinner dances held for these individuals. Mingle with children and adults with developmental and cognitive impairments: simply dance, talk, play games, and have fun with everyone present. Two dances are scheduled during the year. Both events take place at the Assumption Cultural Center.

Please call Cecilia Palen at (313) 884-2140 to sign up.

No One Dies Alone (NODA): This St. John Hospital project was created to comfort patients with no visiting family members. Volunteers are needed to make silver bead bracelets (materials provided) that will be sold to benefit terminally ill patients. All proceeds from the sale of the bracelets will be used to purchase a variety of care and comfort items; music, CD’s, DVD’s, lotion, books, and activity items, etc.)

Please contact Lynn Bidigari at (313) 343-3690 for additional information.

SHOREPOINTE VILLAGE: Volunteers are needed to visit and socialize with the elderly residents. Activities may include an organized activity, playing cards; participate in BINGO or making crafts. There is also a need for Eucharistic ministry. Please contact Celest Vacante (586) 498-4500 to volunteer.

SPRING PLANTING DAY to be held in May, 2010 between 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Please bring ½ flat of flowers (Impatiens are a great choice) to plant at St. Joseph Nursing Home,

which is located on Cadieux Road in Detroit. This always brightens their summer days!

If you have any questions, please call Tricia Kesteloot at (313) 885-7022, ext 126.

The CAPuCHIN Meldrum SOUP Kitchen (provides breakfast and lunch, m-f) and the CAPuCHIN Conner SOUP Kitchen (provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner, m-s): Serve the poor who suffer from the lack of basic human needs. Both kitchens are run by the Capuchins, providing daily meals to the poor and homeless; and both need help! They need assistance in preparing and serving the meals. This is great service opportunity for Mentor groups! Give them a call to see how and where you can help. The contact person is Roy Hoelscher at (313) 822-8606, ext. 10.

CROSSROADS: An Ecumenical Social Service Ministry that provides emergency food, clothing, and hygiene kits to those in need. Hygiene items are needed and hands to package them together in kits. Help is needed on most Saturdays between 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at their location: Crossroads, 92 East Forest Ave., in Detroit. Please contact Janice Vandeputte or Latoria Glenn for additional information at

(313) 831-2787.

GLEANERS FOOD BANK

To reserve a spot for your mentor group,

Please contact Tricia Kesteloot at

(313) 885-7022, ext 126. A maximum of 5 Mentor groups can be accommodated on an assigned day (date to be determined). Other days/times are available. Please contact Alma Perez, the Gleaners Youth Volunteer Coordinator at (313) 923-3535.

Description: Upon arrival at Gleaners, sign in. The day begins with either a tour of the food bank or a video describing their mission and operation. The group will work for 1½ hours, have a short break and snack, have their picture taken, work for 1 more hour and depart. Please identify yourself as a St. Paul on the Lake parishioner when you call for an assignment (Thursday –Saturday).

The contact person is Alma Perez, 2131 Beaufait, (313) 923-3535, ext. 239.

GLEANERS SUB STATION: located in Warren. This Food Bank needs help as well! Please contact

Asael at 586-923-3535 ext 351.

THANKSGIVING BASKETS: Parents and children needed to help transport baskets of food to Nativity during the weekend of November 14/15, 2009 after the 12:00 Mass.*

CHRISTMAS GIFTS: We need a parent or two and their children to help transport gifts to Nativity during the weekend of

December 12/13, 2009 after the 12:00 Mass.*

EASTER BASKETS: Another opportunity for families to help bring baskets to Nativity during the weekend of March 21-22, 2010 after the 12:00 Mass.*

*To sign-up for any of the above activities contact Deacon Richard Shubik at (313) 885-8855.

NATIVITY OF OUR LORD PARISH

ST. ALOYSIUS COMMUNITY CENTER

Description: An inner-city ministry to the homeless offering food, shelter, and clothing. Serving over 1000 PBJ sandwiches each day, providing 600 bags of groceries each month to seniors, and giving clothing to those in need requires the prayer and help of many! Location: 1209 Washington Blvd., between State St. and Grand River. Directions: Take Jefferson downtown to Washington Blvd. (it begins in front of Cobo Hall) turn right and go approximately five blocks - you will see St. Aloysius Church on the right hand side and the Community Center on the left. Call Kathy to schedule a time to help: prepare sandwiches, bag donuts, put together hygiene kits, sort clothing, or fill whatever need is most urgent at the moment. Contact: Kathy Lynch @ (313) 237-5810.

ST. LEO SOUP KITCHEN

Serving the poor at St. Leo’s, or at any shelter, is an extraordinary privilege; they are God’s precious ones. Such activities give our students face-to-face contact with some of the most destitute people in our diocese. These men and women are facing very difficult times; they are to be treated with the utmost respect and compassion.

Description: Our youth will be asked to help with a variety of things including folding clothes, prepping food, making sandwiches, serving food, wiping tables, etc. Previous groups found this to be a very moving experience. Lunch will be provided for the helpers if food is left after everyone else has been served. Participants are invited to bring a contribution of canned goods and/or used clothing, toys, household goods from their attics.

The contact person is Joe Micallef, 4860 15^th Street, (313) 897-6565 or (313)207-4327).