We have opportunities to serve folks in need in our community and hope you’ll participate!
The women’s overflow homeless shelter has reopened in the Fellowship Hall at St. Timothy’s and will stay open through March 1. because you have been so generous in the past, Highland has again agreed to partner with St. Timothy’s financially, through volunteer support, and through donations of meals and to-go bags. Please prayerfully consider how you can help and sign up for a meal team, a hospitality / check-in shift, or snack / to-go bags. Click here to sign up!
Moore School Food Pantry, Highland, alongside Temple Emmanuel, supports Moore Elementary School by providing a food pantry for students of Moore School and their families. For the month of March, we are asking for donations of canned beans or shelf-stable milk. We have busy this year and would love to have your help. Please sign up for “Moore Elementary Pantry Fall/Winter Volunteering.” Please click here to view the online sign up sheet.
Flourish Meal: Meal Preparation for Flourish: We are looking for a couple of people to help provide a meal for 40 women and children on Monday, March 23 for Flourish, a program of The Shalom Project. Please contact Debbie Layman if able to help.
Community Care Center on New Walkertown Road in Winston-Salem is a volunteer-based, free, non-profit healthcare clinic that treats the whole person and family. They provide health care services and medicines to uninsured patients who don’t qualify for federal or private insurance and have family incomes below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. Their medical, dental and non-medical staff donate over 10,000 hours annually. They have evening hours every Monday and Thursday. Churches from Salem Presbytery provide dinners for the volunteers each Monday. If you’d like to prepare and deliver a dinner for 20 people, please contact Debbie Cesta at debbie.cesta@habitatforsyth.org
Current needs at The Shepherd Center:
- Volunteers are needed for their Phone Pals and Card Connections programs (sending cards, making cards, making phone calls)
- For small groups that might feel comfortable working together outside, they have older adults that need help with yard work
- Items are needed for Door Drops and items vary from month to month
Current needs at Senior Services:
- Senior services can always use more hand sanitizer, bags to support contactless delivery, and other cleaning and protectives equipment such as masks, gloves, etc.
- There is an ongoing need for comfort and care items – please contact the volunteer coordinator, Holly Beck, at 336-721-3411.