Westminster Reaches Out
Local Opportunities for Service and Volunteering
Spend Time and Share Yourself with the Elderly
Adult Care of Chester County – a day care for the elderly and lonely. Visit their web site at: http://www.adultcareofchestercounty.org/ or call 610-363-8044 for ways you can help.
Wentworth Home – provides housing and care for the elderly in West Chester. Visit their web site at: http://www.thewentworth-westchesterpa.com/ or call 610-696-8044 for ways you can help.
West Chester Area Senior Center – supports the elderly in many different ways. Visit their web site at: http://www.wcseniors.org/ or call 610-431-4242 for ways you can help.
Cook or Serve Meals
Safe Harbor provides shelter, food, friendship, counseling and recovery opportunities in West Chester to the homeless. Meals served. Go to http://www.safeharborofgwc.org/volunteer.html or call Tariya Edwards in the kitchen at 610-696-9016
Drive People, Meals, Donations
Project One – supports families and individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Drivers needed to take people to local appointments. Call Johanna Crochetto at 610-466-0603or contact her at jcrocetto@familyservice.us for ways you can help.
Meals on Wheels – delivers meals to the homebound. Go to their web site: http://www.mowcc.org/ or contact them at mowcc@verizon.net or call 610-430-8500 to see how you can help.
Chester County Food Bank –Help needed driving donated goods year-round, and fresh produce during the summer months. For volunteer opportunities contact Larry Welsch at
Home of the Sparrow – provides housing and supportive services to homeless women. Drivers needed to take women to local appointments. Visit their web site at: http://www.homeofthesparrow.org/ Or call 610- 647-4940 for ways you can help.
Help Children or Families
Care Center for Christ – preschool and after school program for the poor. Visit their web site at: http://www.carecenterforchrist.com/Welcome.html Or call 610-436-6226 for ways you can help.
Home of the Sparrow – provides housing and supportive services to homeless women. Visit their web site at: http://www.homeofthesparrow.org/ or call 610- 647-4940 for ways you can help.
Bridge of Hope – Ending and preventing homelessness with the help of trained mentoring groups within congregations. Visit their web site at: bridgeofhopelcc.org/ or call 610- 647-4940 for ways you can help.
Want to Lend a Helping Hand?
Be a buddy? Help with supplies when someone moves? Or help with some office work? Residential Living Options in West Chester helps with the housing needs of people with various disabilities. Call Catherine Friedman at 610.518.6242 to see how you could help - just a few hours a week would be wonderful.
Serve the Homeless or Other Poor People in Our Community
Safe Harbor –provides shelter, food, friendship, counseling and recovery opportunities in West Chester to the homeless. Meals served. Visit their web site at: http://www.safeharborofgwc.org Or contact Patty Sobecki for volunteer opportunities at shelter@safeharborofgwc.org
Or if you have been thinking about a way to help with the food program at Safe Harbor you could consider sponsoring the milk and orange juice for the residents. They need approximately seven gallons of milk and four gallons of orange juice each week. If you are interested in adopting a day, or a week, or a month of this important need, please contact Tariya at 610-696-9016 to get on the schedule.
His Mission – a shelter in Kennett Square for the homeless. Call Margaret Valentine at 610-444-2559 for ways you can help.
Broad Street Ministry - an innovative urban ministry in Philadelphia that emphasizes hospitable outreach, civic involvement, and creative expression. Visit their web site at: http://www.broadstreetministry.org/ or call 215-735-4847 for ways you can help.
West Chester Food Cupboard provides emergency food and resource information to those in need. Help needed in the food cupboard in West Chester. For volunteer opportunities contact Chris Adams at 610-344-3175 or at wcfood@gmail.com , 545 E. Gay Street, West Chester, PA 19380 www.westchesterfoodcupboard.org
Share Professional Medical, Dental or Healthcare Skills
Community Volunteers in Medicine – provides medical and dental care for uninsured working poor residents of Chester County and their families. For different ways you can help go to: http://www.cvim.org/contact_us.html or call 610-836-5990 www.cvim.org
Do Physical Work, Sorting, Hammering, Building, Gleaning, etc.
Mission Relief –collects, processes and ships medical and surgical supplies worldwide to needy hospitals and healthcare facilities. Help needed sorting and packing supplies at facility in Coatesville. Contact Doug Hopwood, Volunteer Coordinator at 717-252 2348 or e-mail: serve@missionrelief.org? http://www.missionrelief.org/
Good Works –working with families in Chester County who live in substandard housing to make their homes warmer, safer and drier, with the goal of eliminating substandard housing. For volunteer opportunities go to: http://goodworksinc.org/volunteer/individuals.html or call 610-383-6311 http://goodworksinc.org/
Habitat for Humanity – partners locally with families in need to build houses together. Call 610-384-7993, ext. 17 or email Eliza@hfhcc.org. Habitat for Humanity of Chester County, Inc. http://www.hfhcc.org/
Chester County Food Bank Gleaning Program –Gleaning takes place in the summer months at local farms and gardens, and help is needed with weeding and picking produce. For volunteer opportunities contact Larry Welsch at 610-344-5300 or lwelsch@chesco.org
Be an Advocate
Centurion Ministries – seeks justice for those wrongly accused and on death row. Visit their web site for details: http://www.centurionministries.org/
Bread for the World – advocates and seeks justice for the hungry. Visit their web site for details: http://www.bread.org/ Or visit the Westminster Outreach web page for more advocacy opportunity links: http://www.westminsterpc.org/203209.ihtml
Write to a Missionary or Pray for Them and Their Work
Wycliffe Bible Translators – translates the Bible and educates children of missionaries. Specifically the Kuiken family. Visit their web site for more details of the ministry: http://www.wycliffe.org/ Contact Fiona Allison for details at fmallison@comcast.net
Youth with a Mission – trains and sends out mission teams to 50 nations for Christian education and relief work. Specifically the Haines family. Visit their web site for more details of the ministry: http://www.ywamtyler.org/ Contact Fiona Allison for details at fmallison@comcast.net
Pakistan Bible Correspondence Institute and Christian Recording Ministries –provides Christian correspondence courses and audio/visual programs, and visits prisoners. For details of this ministry go to: http://pcrm.gospelpk.com/main_introduction.html
Participate In a Local or Overseas Mission Trip
Bridge to Honduras - members and friends of Westminster and Dilworthtown churches sharing the love of God with the people of La Entrada, Honduras and seeking to improve their quality of life. Contact Lisa Arnold at andy-n-lisa@comcast.net
Estado 29 – a Mexican orphanage. Each year a group from Westminster travels to the orphanage in Ensenada, Mexico to work on construction projects as well as on Bible studies and ministry with the children who live there. Contact Jon Frost at jfrost@westminsterpc.org or at 610-399-3377 for details.
Habitat for Humanity – Each summer a group from Westminster travels to Garrett County, Maryland and partners with families to build houses together. Contact Bob Reitz at RRRcubed12@verizon.net to find out more about this opportunity.
Support a Medical Ministry
Canvasback Missions – provides healthcare to poor islanders in the South Pacific. For ways you can help visit their web site: http://www.canvasback.org/
Serving at the Crossroads - partnering with Hondurans, the NGO Manos Amigas, and others to provide medical and healthcare to the people living in the area of La Entrada. For ways you can help contact Mike Tysowsky at satc02@verizon.net or go to: www.servingatthecrossroads.org/
Welcome and Serve Migrant Neighbors
Chester County Migrant Ministry – supports Hispanic migrants in Chester County with a variety of services and La Iglesia Presbyteriana Hispana de Toughkenamon, a Hispanic church and ministry in Southern Chester County. Contact Bob Walton at 610-347-0008 for ways you can help.
St. Agnes Day Room – a ministry to the poor in West Chester, providing nurses care, meals and fellowship. Contact Barbara Kirby at barbara-kirby@comcast.net for ways you can help.
Over 55 and Still Not Sure What You Can Do?
Contact RSVP! The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Chester County will give you lots of ideas. Check out their web site at http://www.familyservice.us/rsvp.html
RSVP members know retirement is more than golf or gardening or travel - it includes voluntary public participation and leadership involving an issue or challenge that is intended for the benefit of the community - "giving back", in volunteer roles that provide the challenges, rewards and relationships that enriched their lives in the career or parenting stage of life. Let volunteering be a bridge to your next life journey - Call 610-696-4900 or contact rsvp@familyservice.us for more information.