Many members and those who attend Christ Church enjoy being active in
volunteerism through the church. Below please find opportunities
available at the physical space of the church as well as through the
church's Board of World Fellowship. Contact information for each opportunity is
noted.
Good Grief
Good Grief runs a year-round grief support center for children, teens,
parents and young adults coping with loss and depends on the work of
volunteers. Volunteer facilitators are needed to facilitate our peer
grief support groups. The role of the volunteer facilitator is to
provide a safe, caring and sharing environment where grieving children
can express themselves through words, art, drama, writing or physical
play. Volunteers are also need to assist with the setup and clean on
Nights of Service and to help provide dinner and snacks for children
and families on those nights. Volunteers also serve on our Good
Mourning breakfast committee and host Heal a Heart information evenings
in their homes. Volunteer jobs range from 1 or 2 hours a month to 10
hours per month and up.
For more information or to volunteer contact 908-522-1999 or
.
Web:
www.good-grief.org.
BRIDGES
BRIDGES is an outreach program for the homeless that has had its
offices and donation center here at Christ Church for the last 20
years. We thank Christ Church for its continuing support. Each week
BRIDGES reaches out to homeless neighbors in lower Manhattan, Newark
and Irvington, with its distinctive yellow truck filled with brown bag
lunches, clothing and toiletries. Donations of gently worn in-season
clothing, blankets, towels and sheets are welcome on Tuesdays, 8:30 to
2:30 and Fridays, 8:30 to 6. Brown bag lunches (a sandwich of meat,
drink, fruit, salty and sweet snack) may be made at home and dropped
off at BRIDGES on FRIDAYS only. The youth group at Christ Church does
several runs (outreach visits) per year. To sign up, contact Rev Caroline Dean,
the Christ Church Associate Minister of Adult and Youth Education.
BRIDGES also works with the Irvington Food Pantry. Donations of
non-perishable food items, toiletries and paper goods are always
needed as well as volunteers to pick up food from various sources and
deliver to the Pantry. For more information, see our website:
www.bridgesoutreach.org
or contact Lois at 908-273-0176.
Summit Learning Academy Foundation
The Summit Learning Academy Foundation's After School Enrichment
Program offers tutoring and enrichment services for students grades
K-5. We are in need of adult (and students grade 8-12 ) volunteers
Monday - Friday anytime between 3:15pm-6:00pm. Volunteers will be
partnered with a teacher to help students with homework and tutoring.
If anyone is interested, they can email or call me and we will work
with them on a schedule.
For more information contact Michelle Stevenson at:
World Vision
World Vision has a number of volunteer opportunities. We have a
warehouse in the South Bronx where youth and adults can volunteer to
stack, sort, deliver education materials for Title I schools and school
children in NYC. Volunteer opportunities at the warehouse are regularly
available.
There are also opportunities to assist at fundraising events (set-up
advocacy, etc.). From time to time, we look for interns/volunteers to
work on project planning and research. These are available on an ad hoc
basis. Contacts are Joe Salsberry at
and Maryellen Robeson at 212-736-2997.
The World Vision website is
www.worldvision.org.
Eric Johnson House
Eric Johnson House is New Jersey's premier HIV/AIDS housing and
supportive services facility for homeless men and women. Headquartered
in Morristown, its mission is to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis by
providing supportive services, housing opportunities, prevention
strategies and community education. Volunteer opportunities include
preparing meals, Friday/Saturday night sleep overs, transportation of
residents; office support, yard work, home maintenance projects,
fundraising and special event volunteers and photographers.
Web:
www.TheEricJohnsonHouse.org/.
Contact: Laurie Rufolo, (908)273-4685,
Summit Community School
The Summit Community School is always in need of additional board
members and help in a number of school related projects. Please contact
Layne Weggeland at 273-3393.
Nicaragua
- Help collect, receive, label, and load donations for twice-yearly
container shipments to Nicaragua (May and October).
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Join the PeaceWorks delegation to Nicaragua: every year, mid-January,
all-inclusive cost about $1,600/person. Upon return, share photos and
impressions with congregation.
Contact: Laurie Rufolo, (908)273-4685,
PeaceWorks
Assistance with fall and spring shipments to Nicaragua,
attend PeaceWorks monthly meetings, participate in January annual
delegation trip:
www.peaceworks.igc.org/peaceworks.html.
Contact: Laurie Rufolo, (908)273-4685,
UCC Plainfield
UCC in Plainfield (recipient of the Christ Church Margaret Baker Award) - after school
tutoring center. Please contact Vivien Hardy at 908-277-2200.
Grace Church in Flemington
Grace Church in Flemington: Music talent volunteers (see their website
www.graceuccnj.org)
Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lambi Fund of Haiti: take an interest in the world beyond the
comforts of home:
www.lambifund.org.
New York Theological Seminary
New York Theological Seminary: communicate with & for a program
graduate:
www.singsing.answeryes.com
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