Service Opportunities

There are many community service and parish ministry opportunities!

Be sure to sign up for things early so that you don't get caught at the end of the year with no service hours!!
Please remember that people are counting on your support. When you sign up for a service opportunity it is very important that you follow through and participate in that obligation.

Teens preparing for Confirmation need 5 hours of parish based service per year of preparation.  

Download Service Hours Form

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Hospitality Sundays: We are looking for 3 volunteers* for each of the 9:15, 11:15 & 1:30 Masses to help out with set up, serving and clean up. Please mark your calendar for the next  Hospitality Sunday date: November 17, 2019:
 
Please click here to sign up to help with the next Hospitality Sunday.

*NOTE: To comply with Child and Youth Protection requirements, a parent or guardian must accompany any youth (under 18 years) volunteering for a Hospitality Sunday event.

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Pancake Breakfast Service Opportunities:
November 10,2019 
January 26, 2020    This would coincide  with the beginning of Catholic Schools Week
March 8, 2020 
May 10, 2020  Mothers day

We can use three or four students.  They will be involved in table set up, food serving table busing and dish drying activities.

Shifts that are available:

3 or 4  students from 8:30 to 10:30

3 or 4 students from 10:30 to 12:30

They should email Jim Heffernan directly at:  jheffernan@nc.rr.com. And they should give me their shift choice and the date/s they wish to come.
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Habitat for Humanity
Here is another volunteer activity for your students who are 16 and older. This is also a good time to involve a parent spending time on the jobsite while helping fulfill STM slots for volunteers.

Habitat for Humanity:  the link is:  orangehabitat.volunteerhub.com/lp/buildinghope

Dates are shown when STM volunteers are needed and lunch is sometimes provided.

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PORCH "Double Baggers" Needed!
The PORCH organizers need help every third Sunday of the month, from 8pm-9pm (after TYM), to help double-bag and to help set up for the Monday morning food sort. Youth interested can meet in St. Theresa Room right after TYM and plan to stay for an hour or less. Those in need of service hours are more than welcome to help out. Parents are welcome to stay as well. Contact Clara Neyhart at claraneyhart@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer.
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Caring and Sharing Center 
Youth are welcome to assist guests find clothes during regular hours and/or assist on scheduled sorting days after hours. Youth younger than 17 years old must come with an adult. Regularly designated sorters work on early Tuesday and Friday a.m. so if youth have time off in the morning they can assist on those days as well. Please contact Marie Clark at mariepaulaclark@yahoo.com for more information.
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Homestart
Homestart is the women and children's shelter on Homestead Road. Our parish, along with other churches, provides dinners for the women each week. We are always in need of additional help. Youth can help by: thinking up a menu, shopping for ingredients, paying for the ingredients, making the dinner (at their house or the shelter), and deliver the dinner to the shelter. They would receive hours for all of the work, and it normally totals at least 5 -6 hours per dinner. Youth are encouraged to work in pairs or groups for this project. Please contact Cindy Hynes at Cindy_Hynes@dentistry.unc.edu for more information. She will help work with the youth's schedule as well.
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Youth House Maintenance
Grab a few of your friends and help us keep our Youth House clean and usable! For those who are interested in getting a few more Confirmation Service Hours, this will be the perfect job! Put on your iPod and clean, clean, clean. Contact Georgie Clemens, Director of Youth Ministry, to volunteer! 
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Watering Indoor Plants
Youth are needed to help water plants in the church, narthex, and parish center for 15-20 minutes per week, one day a week, flexible time. Contact Mary Doerflein at mrdoerflein@gmail.com for more information.
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Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW)
This is an ongoing commitment for “shepherds” to assist with the teachers during the 5:15 and the 9:15 Masses. The new schedule does not come out until January, but youth can sign up to be included now. Please have the youth think about how many months they wish to be on the schedule since we do a calendar for the whole year. Contact Maureen Earnhardt for more information.
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FOR WIRED MEMBERS ONLY:
RCIA-C
We need youth as sponsors for kids in the RCIA. There are several important aspects of this ministry. (1) It will be a two year commitment (until Easter 2019 with the present group), (2) Hispanic youth are encouraged to become sponsors, as many of our catechumens are Hispanic, (3) the youth need to be Confirmed. Please contact Fr. Chris for more information.
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Lectoring
The lector ministry would love to have some more young lectors. Youth are welcome to come to a new lector training. Usually youth can lector for at least a year before they head off to college. Please contact Jim Boyd at STMLectors@gmail.com for information.
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Eucharistic Minister Training
Confirmed teens interested in becoming Eucharistic Minsters are invited to training sessions scheduled a few times a year.  Please contact Deacon Bob Troy for more information on dates and times.