“Do Your Part”
By Katherine Brady
Got done with your Christmas shopping early? Free time over break? Do some good for the community and get service hours, you’ll appreciate it come the end of third quarter! Not sure what to do? There are more ways to help out than you would think. Start by contacting your local parish and seeing what they have going on. Often times parishes need help cleaning the church and getting ready for big masses before the weekend. The ‘Heavenly Dusters’ are their name and cleaning is their game (Contact: Parish Office 662-7361 or Marilee Provost, 662-7361, ext. 216). They clean for one or two hours one Friday a month. Also, I’m sure your parish would love help setting up for Christmas! On Christmas Eve most parishes need assistance putting up trees for the Christmas mass!
Not in the mood for heavy lifting? No worries, you could ring light little bells, no problem. Raise money for the Salvation Army outside of multiple places near you. The Salvation Army needs people to fill up the rest of the days before Christmas. Call 309-829-9476 or email Angie Fulton at angie_fulton@usc.salvationarmy.org!
There are endless opportunities to serve food to the hungry. Home Sweet Home Ministry needs workers at their Food Pantry on Mondays from 12-3 pm and workers to prepare food on Saturday the 27th from 2-6 pm. To get involved at Home Sweet Home, submit an application at http://hshministries.org/get-involved/volunteer/volunteer-opportunities. Servers are needed at Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. If you have free time, PLEASE try to help out and contact the coordinator, Connie at (309)829-9476 ext 219. Volunteers are welcome on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12-3 at Western Avenue Community Center Food Pantry. Contact Jackie Dunson at (309)829-4807 for more information.
Lastly, there are tons of different opportunities for service at OSF Hospital. They have a network of volunteers and you could be one of them! It's easy to get involved, just apply online for whatever you want at https://www.osfstjoseph.org/form/volunteer/.
Lastly, there are tons of different opportunities for service at OSF Hospital. They have a network of volunteers and you could be one of them! It's easy to get involved, just apply online for whatever you want at https://www.osfstjoseph.org/form/volunteer/.
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