Volunteers in 13
churches host the families as their guests for meals and to
stay overnight in rooms at the church buildings. Often
children's activities and/or help with homework is given.
Families know they can rest in a family setting for work and
school.
Volunteers in 13 support churches assist by providing
volunteers for such activities as meal preparations,
activities, overnight, cleanup, and weekend work. Volunteers
are needed in the office for administrative work, special
projects, sorting and storage of donations, fundraising and
solicitation of daily necessities such as detergent and
disposable diapers as well as collections of household items
used to help families to set up housekeeping when they move
out.
Each congregation that host families may have as many as
sixty volunteers working during host week. During the year,
the congregation will log more than a thousand hours
providing the basic set up, take down and moving of beds;
shopping, preparing and serving food; driving the van when
the driver is off; washing towels and linens; planning and
phoning to organize the team for the week; repairs and
cleaning; training and record keeping as well as the
overnight and weekend hosting.
Volunteers find many ways of supporting families in their
efforts to become important; however, their most important
service is most often "just being there" to lend a
compassionate ear or play with the children to give the
parents a break at the end of a long and difficult day.
If you or your congregation would like to get involved,
please contact us by clicking here.
