Below please find a description of the ministry projects available:

-Prepare St. James Park Meal: Girl Scouts will be making sandwiches and packing brown bag lunches.

-Serve St. James Park Meal: At 12:30 the team will go to St. James Park to serve the lunches made by the Girl Scouts.

-Assemble Blessing Bags: Toiletry and hygiene items will be put into ziplock bags for our Homeless ministry.

-Casa de Clara Yard Work: Trimming, raking, and other yard work tasks at a Catholic Workers transitional housing location.

-Arts & Crafts project with Casa de Clara Families: Working with families with children on an art project at Casa de Clara.

-Shower Ministry at Homeless Encampment 1:30-4:30: Shower Ministry at Homeless Encampment 1:30-4:30 (Quarry and Old Orchard Road)

-Blankets & Scarves Making: Cutting fleece cloth to make blankets and scarves for homeless and Yu Ai-Kai. Please bring fabric sheers or scissors if you have them.

-Prepare a Meal for Casa de Clara and Hope Village (Hope Village tentative): Preparing a hot meal to deliver to Casa de Clara, a Catholic Worker home for women and children in transition.

-Serve a Meal at Casa de Clara and Hope Village: Deliver a meal to Casa de Clara and Hope Village

-Hope Village Upkeep & Maintenance: Tentative- Depending on Move

-Place Mats for Homeless Meals: Decorate paper placemats for Grace Baptist Church's homeless shelter.

-Crayon Recycling: Recycle broken and used crayons so they can be donated for art projects at Children's Hospitals.

-Letter Writing and Care Packages: Write letters to people in the Armed Services. Prepare care packages for college students away from home.

-Taylor Street Farm: Sowing seeds, planting vegetables, helping to create new demonstration garden and general clean-up activities at a volunteer-run organic educational non-profit on Taylor Street near Highway 87.

-Cards, Sweets, Origami for Seniors: Making cards, Japanese sweets, and origami to take to Seniors and Shut-ins.

-Deliver Care Packages to Seniors and Shut-Ins

-Lunch for Volunteers: UMW will be preparing a delicious meal for our volunteers as we celebrate the ministry projects we have worked on.