posted Oct 30, 2008 6:19 PM by Jeff Wilson
Help us bring a Happy Thanksgiving to our community’s neediest families! Your gift will enable SERVE to support the programs that give Thanksgiving baskets to more then 1,400 individuals and families. Operation Turkey also helps us throughout the year as we provide supplemental foods to our area’s neediest families. Those served are identified by local social service departments and through SERVE’s client lists.
You can get involved in three ways:
- Donate food
- Donate money
- Volunteer
More information is available in the attached flier:
 Flier availableSERVE, Inc
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posted Oct 10, 2008 5:59 AM by Jeff Wilson
Even in a community such as Manassas people experience hunger. You can help make sure everyone has enough to eat by attending Empty Bowls on Friday, October 24 from 4-8 p.m. Guests purchase a handmade pottery bowl and then enjoy a simple meal of pasta or soup, and other delicious food donated by area restaurants. All proceeds benefit S.E.R.V.E. The event will be held at The Rock, 8730 Sudley Road, located next to Manassas Baptist Church (formerly Marstellar Middle School). Price is $15 for adults and $10 for children 10 and under. |
posted Sep 11, 2008 7:00 PM by Jeff Wilson
posted Aug 30, 2008 10:32 AM by Jeff Wilson
Video from SERVE Field Trip - 8/24/2008
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posted Aug 29, 2008 9:05 PM by Jeff Wilson
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updated Aug 29, 2008 9:12 PM
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Need: Multiple items both on-going and one time
Status: posted 8/30/2008 | Details: Below are further immediate volunteer needs as identified by Jan Hawkins, Volunteer Director:
- We
ALWAYS have a need for meals to be done for the shelter residents on
weekends and holidays. The day that is most challenging is Sundays,
since that’s always a big family day for many people. Meals can be
done either in our full-service kitchen, or can be prepared at the
church or someone’s home and brought to the shelter. If time is a
factor, a group can always prepare a meal in advance and drop it off
either just prior to a weekend, or the day of the meal itself. The
kitchen has ample cooler and freezer space to safely store meals. We
have some groups who prepare meals on site, and other groups that find
it easier to do meal prep at home and either bring it in to serve or
drop it off for the meal.
- Our
need for paper products such as paper towels and toilet paper is an
ongoing issue. The shelter alone goes through at least 60 rolls of
toilet paper in a week’s time, so it doesn’t last long around here.
Paper towels and trash bags of all sizes are another constant need.
- The
shelter staff likes to give every child who enters our shelter a quilt
that they can keep. The quilts don’t have to be huge, just something
the child would enjoy and can take when they leave our facility.
- We
have some events coming up that will have a need for volunteers: Empty
Bowls on October 24 at Manassas Baptist Church, and Operation Turkey in
November. Operation Turkey volunteers will be needed beginning
November 8. Our kickoff meeting will be in mid-September, and as soon
as I know the schedule, I can provide it for you. Anyone who is
interested in volunteering should contact me for more information.
- The
Christmas holidays have ample volunteer opportunities – parties or
holiday meals for the residents, adopt a shelter family for Christmas
gifts. One church always comes just prior to Christmas and does a
holiday pageant for the shelter residents.
- Many
of the residents’ rooms in the shelter are in need of repainting and
being refurnished. When we first moved here in 2002, many churches and
businesses “adopted” a shelter room, then painted and furnished that
room. After six years, many furniture pieces need replaced, plus the
walls are in need of new paint. A group from Bethel can adopt a room
if they would like to do so.
- Dishwasher is broken
- Need to replace washers and dryers
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posted Aug 26, 2008 7:03 AM by Jeff Wilson
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updated Aug 26, 2008 12:32 PM
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Need: volunteer drivers for an 8:30a - 12:00p shift for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. This is both an immediate and an on-going need.
Status: posted 8/26/2008
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Jeff – I have a late
breaking volunteer opportunity to offer the Bethel Lutheran members.
The Food Warehouse is in Desperate need of volunteers who can drive the
SERVE Food Warehouse vans on any one day Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
or Friday. Drivers would be needed to make runs to various local
grocery stores and restaurants to pick up food being donated to the
SERVE Food Warehouse. Drivers would use the SERVE vans, not their own
vehicles, and would be trained prior to going out on runs. Hours are
8:30am to 12:00pm. The prerequisites are to be 21 and older, and sign
an insurance form with us.
Mary Jo Dick, Food Warehouse Manager,
has told me she is down to one driver each of these days, because some
of our summer drivers have returned to their teaching jobs. Interested
volunteers should contact me, either by phone at 703-367-6742 or email
me at jhawkins@serveinc.org.
Mary
Jo is on vacation until September 10, but I can do the paperwork and
introduce prospective drivers to the Food Warehouse staff to get things
rolling. If you have any questions about this, please let me know.
Thanks, Jeff!
Jan F. Hawkins
Volunteer Director, SERVE, Inc.
(703) 367-6742
e-mail: jhawkins@serveinc.org
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posted Aug 26, 2008 6:56 AM by Jeff Wilson
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updated Aug 26, 2008 8:32 AM
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Need: personal hygiene products for men and women
Status: on-going need
| Details:
Before our trip to SERVE on 8/24, I asked Jan about their unmet needs. This was her response:
As an immediate need, the shelter
has told me they have an Urgent Need for personal hygiene products such
as men and women’s deodorants, disposable razors, toilet paper, paper
towels, powder laundry detergent, tall kitchen trash bags and
contractor size trash bags. If you want to get the congregation at
Bethel to do a quick collection of these items, I know the shelter
would be most grateful to you all. |
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