We have opportunities to serve folks in need in our community and hope you’ll participate!

Period Packs Menstrual Hygiene Kits
In April our Global Service Committee is challenging us to help people who live in poverty and menstruate. We will be collecting items for 175 Church World Service Period Packs which will provide the essentials our neighbors need to feel clean, be healthy, and live with dignity during their menstrual cycle. Click here to read more about what we need and to sign up! Thank you for your generosity!

Desserts for Elementary School Teachers – During Teacher Appreciation Week in May, Highland is once again providing desserts for elementary school teachers at Moore and Ashley as a way of showing our support for their ongoing creativity and compassion. We will email the sign up link. We will need 160 servings of sturdy, non-refrigerated desserts. You may drop your desserts off on Sunday, May 5 if they can be frozen, or on Wednesday, May 8 between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. if they should be delivered fresh. Thanks for signing up and sharing in this fun and delicious way!

Food Bank Garden Work Day – Saturday, May 18 10:00 a.m.
Please join us as we support the Betty and Jim Holmes Food Bank Garden. They provide fresh, local produce to those in need in our community. They have begun planting and are hoping for Highland to help with planting, tilling and weeding on May 18th. Volunteers will work from 10:00 a.m. until noon. Sign up here!

Annual Diaper Drive for Neighbors in Need
Diapers are expensive and unfortunately are not covered by the WIC program. We invite you to support local moms and dads in need through our annual Diaper Drive. We will share our collected diapers with The Shalom Project and Clemmons Food Pantry. Please bring diapers and baby wipes by the church any time we are open between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, May 12–June 16. We will have a collection bin in the Gallery Hall. Our goal this year is 7,500 diapers, so we need your help! Thank you for supporting caregivers in need in our community!

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

CITY WITH DWELLINGS White Flag Shelter – click here to learn more and/or volunteer.

The White Flag Shelter has run out of To Go Bags which they provide to people leaving the shelter in the morning. Bags usually contain a protein, a fruit cup, chips, a granola bar, and a sweet. With the recent cold weather, the shelter has been open, and supplies have dwindled. Contact Krista O’Connell, krista@citywithdwellings.org, to arrange a time or ask questions. Thank you for supporting those in our community who are unhoused!

Saturdays at St. Timothy’s: Saturdays at St. Tim’s is a new endeavor provided by St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, which has been hosting a winter emergency shelter for women, under the umbrella of City With Dwellings (CWD), for the past 10 years. As CWD is no longer hosting the overflow shelter, the people of St. Tim’s want to continue the relationships we have built with women experiencing homelessness. We will offer two respite Saturdays from 8 am to 2 pm each month from December through March. Our guests will be transported to and from St. Timothy’s via a CWD van and driver. They will receive two hot meals, breakfast and lunch, and the opportunity to rest, watch TV, and enjoy community in a safe and warm environment. Thank you for volunteering to help serve the most vulnerable among us. If you have any questions about volunteering at St. Timothy’s, please contact Kristen Machado.

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.