This category of activities involves reaching out to serve others both within and outside our parish.  There are many different opportunities available, including delivery of goods or services, personal assistance, and prayer.

 

Title	AGAPE
Status
Job Description	We’re still working on this
Location
Time Commitment
Others Involved
Qualifications
Training
Equipment Required
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	CLOTHING CLOSET
Status	Position currently filled
Job Description	Oversee and organize the clothing closet (which is in the gathering area of the church).  The closet is kept locked.  Donations are left outside the closet and are put in the closet by the volunteers and church staff.    When the closet is full, (every 3-4 weeks) the clothes are loaded into one of the volunteer’s trucks with the help of several parishioners after the 9:15am Mass. The clothes are then delivered to Lazarus House in Lawrence or Catholic Charities in Boston.
Location	St. Elizabeth Church clothing closet in gathering area of church
Time Commitment	At least 8 hours a month now.  Could be less if a team is developed to share the work
Others Involved	Paulette and Mo Joyal presently run the closet on their own
Qualifications	Adequate strength for moving clothes
Training	None
Equipment Required	Truck or van for transporting clothing would help
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	EMERGENCY PRAYER CHAIN
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	We need volunteers to be willing to pass the word along to pray in response to an emergency prayer request.  There are 8 captains who pass the word along to the next person on the list in order to have as many people as possible pray as soon as possible in response to an emergency prayer request.
Location	Home of the prayer volunteer
Time Commitment	Depends on the number of prayer requests
Others Involved	Team of prayer volunteers, who serve in their homes
Qualifications	Ability to listen with care and compassion to prayer requests and pass the requests along effectively
Training	None
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	FOOD PANTRY
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	Parishioners leave non-perishable items in the St. Elizabeth alcove (left, rear side of the church).  Once a month the 9:15am Mass people load the food and other items into a volunteer’s car.  The volunteer takes the items to the Windsor Ave. Food Pantry across from the Citizens Library.
Location	St. Elizabeth alcove at St. Elizabeth Church
Time Commitment	Approximately two hours a month on a Tuesday
Others Involved	Sue Hart does this work on her own at present
Qualifications	None
Training	None
Equipment Required	Car or van to transport food to pantry would be very helpful
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	FRIENDLY VISITORS MINISTRY
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	Volunteers visit homebound parishioners who have expressed a desire for social interaction.  This ministry helps to knit them more closely to others in our parish.
Location	Home of the homebound parishioner
Time Commitment	One hour possibly once a week or every other week; open commitment
Others Involved	None
Qualifications	Ability to listen and chat with the homebound person
Training	None
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	GIVING TREE
Status	Future need
Job Description	The Giving Tree program utilizes volunteers to call various charitable organizations in early November to provide lists of those in need of Christmas gifts; then prepare tags with gift information and put on tree Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.  Help also needed sorting gifts by various organizations and making arrangements for gifts to be picked up before Christmas.
Location	St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church
Time Commitment	On and off for one month
Others Involved	Other volunteers
Qualifications	None
Training	None
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18 or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	HOUSEHOLD GOODS RECYCLING-STORE HELP
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	We are looking for more helpers in the store to distribute the items that have been donated from pots and pans to furniture and appliances.  Help is needed in the store on both Thursdays (9:30am-noon) and Saturdays (8:00am-11:00am).
Location	St. Matthew’s Methodist Church, Central Street, Acton
Time Commitment	Whatever time the volunteer has available on Thursdays between 9:30am and noon or Saturdays between 8:00am and 11:00am; typically 1-hour shifts
Others Involved	Other members of the Household Goods Recycling Ministry
Qualifications	None
Training	None
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	HOUSEHOLD GOODS RECYCLING-TRANSPORTING DONATIONS
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	We are looking for both volunteers who have their own trucks, vans or station wagons and those without their own transportation who can be paired up with someone who does have transportation.  The teams of volunteers will travel to area homes to pick up donations of furniture and other household goods and deliver them to the Household Goods Recycling Ministry store at St. Matthew’s Methodist Church in Acton.
Location	Area homes to St. Matthew’s Methodist Church, Central Street, Acton
Time Commitment	Whatever time the volunteer has available; pickups can happen any day, so it is whatever is good for the volunteer
Others Involved	Other members of the Household Goods Recycling Ministry
Qualifications	None
Training	None
Equipment Required	Truck, van without seats or station wagon without seats (unless you are being paired up with someone who has that type of transportation)
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	LEGION OF MARY
Status
Job Description	We’re still working on this
Location
Time Commitment
Others Involved
Qualifications
Training
Equipment Required
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	PARISH NURSE MINISTRY
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	We need skilled registered nurses to help reach out with compassion and healing as Jesus has called us to do.  Skilled nurses in our parish community promote insight and education on health-related issues, refer parishioners to needed services or resources in our area, interpret the emotional and spiritual dimensions of health and illness, support new mothers and those who are grieving, and help people to understand the health-care industry and relate more effectively to health-care providers.  Most of all, they will do as Jesus did:  extend care and compassion to people in a way that duly acknowledges the spiritual and physical dimensions of the whole person.  Monthly meetings are held, as are regularly scheduled blood pressure and diabetic screenings.
Location	St. Elizabeth Church, or parishioner’s home; some phone calls made from nurse’s own home
Time Commitment	Up to 8-10 hours a month (time commitment hard to measure)
Others Involved	Other nurses in the parish community
Qualifications	Nursing experience
Training	Nursing degree; current nursing license
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	PRAYER LINE VOLUNTEER
Status	Position currently filled
Job Description	Parishioners call the prayer volunteers who are listed in the bulletin and leave their prayer requests.  The prayer volunteer types up the prayer requests each month (respecting confidentiality) and leaves copies at the back of the church in the prayer line box for any parishioner to take and pray over the requests.  The deadline for prayer requests is the Thursday before the first Sunday of every month.
Location	Home of the prayer volunteer
Time Commitment	Depends on the number of prayer request calls
Others Involved	Team of prayer line volunteers who work independently from their homes
Qualifications	Ability to listen with care and compassion to prayer requests
Training	None
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18   or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	PRO-LIFE VOLUNTEER
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	Join a group of parishioners who meet periodically for specific pro-life events. Several of the annual events include: ·       Rose sale after each of the masses on Mother’s Day to benefit Springhouse home for unwed mothers in Berlin, Massachusetts. ·       Respect Life Walk to Aid Mothers and Children in Boston (supporting organizations all over) the 1st Sunday in October. ·       Spiritual Adoption education and prayer through the bulletin, followed by the archdiocesan-wide baby shower in January.
Location	St. Elizabeth’s Church and Parish Center
Time Commitment	Do not meet regularly, but periodically get together for specific events
Others Involved	Other parishioners and occasionally connect with the Diocesan Pro-life Office
Qualifications	None
Training	Nothing formal, plenty of reading material on the subject available, including monthly updates from the diocese
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18 or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	ST. ELIZABETH’S HOMEFRONT MEMBERS
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	Contacts (primarily phone calls, some visits) with registered St. Elizabeth parish members, to ensure the parish is in touch with all members, and to invite members to planned and unplanned events, meetings.
Location	St. Elizabeth’s Parish Center
Time Commitment	Saturday mornings, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Others Involved	Team of eight participants, support team
Qualifications	Interest in the parish future and in your fellow parishioners
Training	No specific formal training, but we anticipate several briefings; the group will learn together in the process
Equipment Required	It would be helpful if you have access to e-mail
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18 or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	SERVE NEW ENGLAND
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	Volunteers needed to help set-up, clean-up, distribute groceries and carry parcels to people’s cars for the once a month “Serve New England” buy-in food program.  The Serve New England slogan is “If you eat, you qualify”.  It is a buy-in program that any one can join to buy different packages of meat, vegetables and fruit once a month at discounted prices in exchange for 2 hours of community service (anything outside your home, helping others).
Location	St. Elizabeth’s Parish Center
Time Commitment	Based on volunteer’s availability within the 7:00-10:30 AM Saturday, once a month, day of giving
Others Involved	Team made of parishioners and others
Qualifications	None
Training	None
Equipment Required	None
Contact	Volunteer line: 978-263-4305 X18 or E-mail: volunteer@seoh.org

Title	VISITOR AT SUBURBAN MANOR
Status	Volunteers needed
Job Description	Every Wednesday 2-3 parishioners from St. Elizabeth’s visit the nursing home.  There is a 10:00am rosary, 10:30am prayer service and once a month Mass is celebrated.  Holy communion is distributed.  The volunteers set up for the priest when there is a Mass, lead the residents in the rosary and then distribute communion and record communion (recorder does not have to be a Eucharist Minister).  Typically the volunteers complete their visits by 11:30AM.
Location	Suburban Manor Nursing Home on route 2A
Time Commitment	1 - 2 hours each week or as frequently as available
Others Involved	2-3 other parishioners for each visit
Qualifications	None; musical skills and compassion for the sick and infirm a plus; we could really use a piano/organ player
Training