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Service Opportunities for High School Youth
In addition to these recurring opportunities, we often offer other service events throughout the year. Please pay close attention to your email and our Instagram page to learn about upcoming opportunities!Our parish community here at St. Thomas More also has many, many ministries and groups that young people are welcome and encouraged to volunteer with. Whether you are passionate about art, serving the poor, or combating climate change, there is a service group in our community that could use your help. Check out our complete Ministry Directory to find something that interests you!
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YOUTH MINISTRY SPONSORED SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
Youth Service Trip
Each summer, our youth ministry program travels with Catholic Heart Work Camp to serve underprivelaged communities throughout the country. This year, we will be volunteering with local nonprofits in Richmond, VA to improve the lives of those living in poverty. For more information about our trip, visit the youth mission trip page of our website!
If you find that you find that you don't have a lot of time to do service during the academic year, our youth service trip might be for you! Youth who are in need to service hours for Confirmation who sign up for our trip by January 1st will not need to complete service hours during the year. Participating in mission trip is also 'worth' 2 social events, which are required for Confirmation prep.
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Translation Assistance
If you are able to read and write in both english and spanish, consider assisting our youth ministry program with some translations! We are always looking for help making information more accessible to our youth ministry parents. Translations could be completed on your own time within a weeks time. The ability to meet deadlines and follow through on commitments is extremely important for this volunteer opportunity, as failure to complete translations could result in members of our community not recieving the important information that they need. Contact Kristin Hauser, Director of Youth Ministry, to volunteer!
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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. Please note: You must have two SET (Safe Environment Trained) adults to accompany you for this project or the parents of each youth present. Contact Kristin Hauser, Director of Youth Ministry, to volunteer!
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Youth Ministry Spotify Playlist
Help serve our community by creating a Spotify playlist for use at youth ministry events! The playlist must have at least 2.5 hours of music on it and all songs must be youth-ministry appropraite (no cuss words, sexual themes, or drug references). Reach out to Kristin if you'd like to take on this project!
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ST. THOMAS MORE LITURGICAL MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIESLive-Streaming Help for Mass____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If you're interested in tec, this is a great service opportunity for you! Participate in training to learn the ins and outs of our parish live-stream and then volunteer a few times a month to run the feed. Volunteers must be reliable, responsible, posses a basic understanding of computers, and be willing to volunteer a minimum of 5 times. Please reach out to Sergio Escobar at sescobar@stmchapelhill.org to determine if this ministry is the right fit for you!Music Ministry Cantors & Instrumentalists
Singers interested in encouraging and leading the congregation to sing at Mass are welcome to become cantors. Training and rehearsals will be necessary. Singers should be vocally proficient with some level of singing experience. The ability to read music is strongly recommended. Instrumentalists with at least three years of experience on their instrument and the ability to read music are welcome to inquire about playing at Mass. Rehearsals will be necessary. Please contact the Director of Music, Sarah Franco, at sfranco@stmchapelhill.org to sign up.
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Usher Ministry
If you'd like to serve as an Usher after any weekend Mass, reach out to Pat Gaglione pjgaglione@gmail.com. While youth can decide what days they'd like to volunteer, this is an ongoing volunteer commitment and not just a one-time thing!
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ST. THOMAS MORE PARISH MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES
Vacation Bible School Teen Assistants
June 27-July 1, 2022
9:00am - 12:30pm
STM Elementary School and Grounds
If you like singing, playing games, and hanging out with kids, VBS is for you! St. Thomas More is planning a modified COVID-friendly version of our vacation bible school for this summer and we need high school volunteers to hang out with our young friends! Sign up here and scroll to where it says "Youth Helper (rising 9th - 12th Grader)".
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San Isidro Labrador Community Garden at St. Thomas More
Saturday mornings from 9 AM - 12 PM and some weekdaysYouth are invited to help tend our STM community garden with our San Isidro ministry! No gardening experience is necessary, but you must reach out to Bob Weickert at bob_weickert@mindspring.com to determind when you'd 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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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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COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
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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Assisting Elderly Parishoners
Occassionally, our parish office staff will get calls from elderly or disabled parishoners, requesting help with things like grocery shopping, household chores, or other tasks. If you would like to assist a parishoner in need, please see below or reach out to Kristin to see if anyone may be in need of help. Please note: this activity must be done with a parent or guardian. Youth are not permitted to meet with adult parishoners alone, regardless of the agreement made directly with the parishoner.- An elderly parishoner who lives in a condor off of Franklin street is looking for help cleaning insider her apartment and doing some light rearranging. Please reach out to Susan Chiurco at susanchiurco@aol.com for information about volunteering!
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PORCH "Double Baggers"
The PORCH organizers need help every third Sunday of the month, from 8pm-9pm, to help double-bag and to help set up for the Monday morning food sort. Those in need of service hours are more than welcome to help out. For those youth interested in participating in service hours with Porch, all activities are currently being held at Extraordinary Ventures on Elliott Rd, due to Covid. A sign up genius is used to fill the needed slots. To receive the emails that send the link for the sign up, please contact Carol Lucas at cjlucas3@aol.com
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FOR IGNITE MEMBERS ONLY: (who have already been Confirmed)
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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 Maureen Earnhardt 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.
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