As part of Families Moving Forward, St. Ed’s has the opportunity to host Homeless Families overnight, in lieu of going to a regular shelter. We provide parishioners to visit with them, feed them dinner and breakfast, and offer evening activities for their young children, to give parents who are either working or looking for work a bit of a break.
“Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.” (Matt.)
YOUcould be one of those lucky ones to offer a much-needed, friendly welcome to these families from St. Ed’s!
Our Next Hosting WEEK: January 25 - 31, 2009
We Always Need YOUR Help! Fun for Families & Friends!
No need to go anywhere else to serve the poor in our midst!
Coordinators Needed
We arebe in need of a coordinators for a few ministries for Families Moving Forward. These coordinators would need to communicate with those who volunteer for these ministries, about what to expect, what is expected of them, and other pertinent information provided by the director, as well as making sure that all the volunteer slots for those ministries are filled. Everything will run so smoothly with these coordinators in place. Training provided if desired, and possible one meeting of all coordinators right before the week begins.
** Coordinator of Set-Up & Take-Down - to direct the crews in their set-up or take-down of the guests' rooms.
* Laundry Coordinator - to make sure we have people to launder all of the guests' bedding & towels & coordinate the pick-up of dirty laundry & scent-free detergents, as well as the timely drop-off & storage of freshly laundered linens.
Our Weeks 2009: January 25 - 31
April 26 - May 2
November 1 - 7
Please call Mary Pat Potts for more information.
Set-Up - Take – Down Crewcall Buzz / Gail Gross – 835-5799to set up guests rooms with beds (Sunday am), bedding, lamps and such or to put it all away (next Sunday am). *Great for families *Need Coordinator
Evening Hosts, 5:30 – 8:00pm (5:00pm on Sun.)call Bridget Grotins – 884-2617 - to welcome guests, visit with them, trouble-shoot if necessary, welcome Evening Activity volunteers *Great for families
Overnight Hosts, 8:00pm – 7:00am call Jerry Totall – 820-8321 - to welcome guests, visit with them, spend the night in you own room, trouble-shoot if necessary, and eat breakfast with them. 2 Overnight Hosts are really preferred to adequately be available to help if there were to be special need. *Real Beds provided for our Overnight Hosts! (Courtesy of Bridging)
Evening Activities for Young Children,7:00-8:30pm, –call Lizanne Hamm – 942-5392 - to plan activities to do with them here at St. Ed’s or take them OUT to a movie or something (we will let you know how many and what ages). We have closet-fulls of toys, books, movies & activities for you to choose from, but any ideas or materials you come up with are great! *Great for families
Dinner Cooks5:30 -7:30pmcall Felicity Furber – 897-3811 / 612-759-8500 - to prepare dinner for guests (we will let you know any special requests & Felicity will coordinate the menus so there is good variety) - Can use upstairs kitchen for preparation most of the time, but need to bring food down to Auditorium (where dinner is served) on carts using the elevator + then sit and eat dinner visiting WITH the guests.
Dinner Servers 5:30-7:30pm- to serve dinner for guests and then sit and eat dinner visiting WITH the guests, & help them put together their bag lunches for the next day + Clean Up from dinner, bring dirty dishes up from Auditorium to kitchen & run dishes through the dishwasher. *Great for families
Breakfast Crew 5:30-7:15amto set out simple breakfast foods (or prepare a hot breakfast on Sat.) for the guests and eat WITH them + set out the lunches they prepared the night before + bring dirty dishes up to kitchen to soak until the dinner crew runs them through the dishwasher (Sun. crew must run dishes through dishwasher themselves.)
Laundry Team, – On your own time you can pick up on Sunday morning & take bedding & blankets & comforters & towels to laundromat or your home to clean with fragrance-free detergent, then return clean laundry to Church *Need Coordinator
