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Opportunities to Serve

Posted: January 20, 2010

Use your gifts and resources to reflect Christ’s love to the people in our church, in the community and around the world.

Serve at Christ Church

Worship ministries provide acolytes (ages 8-18), altar guild, chalice bearers (age 18+), greeters and ushers to do the work of the people in worship. Chalice bearers may also serve as lay readers and lay eucharist ministers. Come serve with us. You will be blessed!

Serve from Christ Church

  • Allen Community Outreach – Needs drivers for its Meals-On-Wheels program. Individuals may volunteer for one day a week every week or one day a month. Volunteer drivers may choose from 7 routes and leave the ACO Volunteer office between 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. to deliver a hot meal to homebound individuals. Routes have no more than 10 stops and take only an hour to complete. Contact Marjorie Vaneskahian.
  • Plano Community Home East
    Volunteer to drive a resident at Plano Community Home East to either the 5:30 p.m. Saturday service or the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Christ Church one weekend a month.

    Small groups are needed to host a Saturday afternoon game time once a quarter from 1 – 3 p.m. at Plano Community Home East.

  • EQUIP
    Volunteers are needed to become part of a partnership Christ Church has formed with the Interfaith Housing Coalition to mentor struggling families that are at risk of losing their housing. Training is provided by EQUIP and mentors work in teams. Each team includes one financial/budget mentor and one faith/family issues mentor. Volunteers who have completed Financial Peace University are especially needed. The next training will be offered on March 27.

  • City House Volunteers are needed help trim shrubs, pull weeds, mulch beds and clean up the volleyball area at the former teen shelter of CITY House on Sat., May 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
  • Calling Small Groups Small groups are needed to host a Saturday afternoon game time once a quarter from 1 – 3 p.m. at Plano Community Home East, 1608 Ave. L in Plano. PCHE provides subsidized housing for seniors and disabled persons.
  • Meals on Wheels
    Drivers for Allen Community Outreach’s Meals on Wheels program are needed. Individuals may volunteer for one day a week every week or one day a month. Volunteers may choose from several routes and leave the ACO Volunteer Office between 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. to deliver a hot meal to homebound individuals. Routes have no more than 10 stops and take approximately an hour to deliver.

  • Samaritan Inn
    Volunteer to help the Samaritan Inn Thrift Shop in McKinney. Direct contact Jill Rix.

  • Collin County Adult Clinic
    Volunteer doctors and nurses are needed at this clinic which provides health care to Collin County residents who have no insurance. The clinic is open on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6 – 9 p.m.

Serve through World Missions

  • Medical Team to Guatemala – September 18–29, 2010 – HELPS International, a ministry partner of Christ Church Plano, is in the process of putting together a medical team. There are three components to this trip:
    • Medical – medical personnel (recovery RNs, surgical RN, general surgeon, plastic surgeon, OB/GYN, pediatrician, dentists, dental assistants, pharmacy tech or assistant)
    • Non Medical – kitchen helpers and interpreters (English/Spanish)
    • Stovers – people who will help assemble specifically designed stoves for people living in the rural regions

    $1,800 per person. For more information, email Pat and Jon Christiansen or 972-930-0344.

  • Women’s Mission Team to Lima, Peru – October 6–12, 2010 - Christ Church  will send a team of women who will partner with the leadership of the Anglican women (AMA) in the Diocese of Peru to provide a spiritual retreat for the women in Peru. For more information, contact Team Leader, Debi Newman.
  • Men’s Construction Team to Arequipa, Peru – October 23–31, 2010 – This team will provide manual labor for the Diocese of Peru in the construction of a church, school or orphanage in Arequipa, Peru. For more information, contact Team Leader, Dave Coveney.

Related

Minnie’s Food Pantry
Volunteers are needed from 10: 45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. on Fri., Feb. 12 to help serve hot dogs and drinks and distribute food to clients at the 3 year celebration hosted by Minnie’s and The Giving Movement, 3100 Independence Parkway, Suite 217, Plano 75075.

Category: Missions, Opportunities to Serve, Outreach

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