How Can I Help

We can’t do it alone - we need you.

Here are the many ways you can help:

• Shepherd Stockings of hygiene items
• Banquet underwriting & table hosting
• Silent auction donations or gift gathering
• Mentoring / coaching of residents
• Semi annual yard sale drive collection & sorting
• Teams to do house maintenance or apartment clean up
• Be a prayer partner
• Christmas giving tree sponsorship
• Printed materials created
• Good Shepherd presentations
• Monthly furniture collection teams
• Liaison for announcements, postings
• Church / group partnerships
• Making Christmas craft sale items
• Collections of yarn, batting, ink cartridges, aluminum tabs, tools, towels
• Pancake breakfast or fish fry sponsor
• Sponsor a super bowl party
• Secretarial or database work; answer phones
• Envelope and newsletter stuffing
• Policy-making team member
• Youth group community service activities
• Supporting our Car Donations Program provides you with a tax deduction as it aids us in our mission.
• Fall knit caps, gloves and scarves collection for needy men, women or kids (new or used)
• Environmental Pop Tab competition between the sexes with winners with highest monthly turn-in getting pizza party and sodas at Christmas and spring’s end
• Holy Thursday Towel Drive: towels, wash cloths, bar soap, deodorant and shampoo for people to maintain their dignity
• Apartment set items collection: linens, cooking and eating utensils, toaster, dish sets, pots & pans etc. to assist women setting up households with children
• Bikes, and bike locks and chain Drive: people looking for work or getting to it. (and can’t afford a car)
• Back to Work Tool Collection so men can work at vocational jobs new or used but operational:
  • claw hammers
  • saws
  • levels
  • squares
  • tool boxes
  • pliers
  • screwdrivers
  • tool belt
  • boots
  • vise grips
  • wrenches
  • sockets & extensions
  • measure tape
  • marking pencil
  • shovels
  • leaf & garden rakes
  • clamps
  • mallet
  • electrical tester
  • shop towels
  • box cutter with blades
• Manning a table in front of Lowe's or Home Depot, asking people to buy tools as they shop
• Back Pack Buddies for him or her: Back packs filled with 3-underwears, 3- t-shirts or 3 bras, 3-razor,
  shave crème, toothpaste & brush, 10 bus tokens, gym shoes (new or good condition), $10 Meier’s card, 3-
  sox, winter gloves and knit cap
• Selling soup in a cup with bread, homemade cookies, and /or pizza (in-kind) in front of Kroger’s or
  Wal-Mart as a fundraiser for the poor and homeless. (We supply the soup!)
• Collection of left over yarn, material, batting and flannel shirts to be made into afghans, lap blankets,
  baptismal gowns, baby blankets, comforters etc. (Knitters needed too!)
• Car wash fundraiser at a high visible, high traffic business owner’s space or the church so we can provide
  social services to people in need
• School end-of-semester Lost n Found Collection, sorting, and delivery
• Putting on a breakfast after church or sponsoring a fundraiser dinner. (We can help supply the food!)
• Selling Thanksgiving turkey feathers to pin on principle/ youth group leader/ as fundraiser for the
  poor
• Selling duct tape lengths as a fundraiser to tape a leader to the wall!
• Christmas or all occasion gift wrapping services offered as a fundraiser.
• Boy Scouts making, painting and selling of birdhouses, ornaments etc. as a fundraiser for the poor
• Bake sale to learn team work and cooking skills
• Pick up and sorting of Christmas Giving Tree Program or food pantry items
• Sizing and sorting clothing pantry items at 185 Shoup Mill Rd.
• Creation of desserts for Good Shepherd Ministries events
• Placing of wreaths, crosses, blankets on a grave as a fundraiser
• Halloween Canned & Dry Food Scavenger Hunt competition
• Pack and load estate sale items for our yard sale
• Service team to tidy apartments between residents (Vacuum, wipe counters etc.)
• Assist with our May & August yard sale set up.
• Serving as hosts at a Good Shepherd event
• Monthly service team to help the elderly to downsize by moving the furniture they are donating to
  Good Shepherd’ pantry
• Martha’s Helpers - individuals or teams preparing apartments for new residents
• Office Work - We are in need of volunteers to assist us during the work day with such things as computer and database work, newsletter preparations, mailings and answering the phone.

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