TULC Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities

Within TULC

Usher. (If blue links do not work, go to bottom of page)
Nursery Attendant
Reader
Worship Assistant
Greeters
Setup Coffee Hour.
Altar Guild.
Offering Counter
TLC (Trinity Lutheran Caregivers) Adopt an Elder Program
This will be short and to the point. Your congregation needs your active assistance. I bring two opportunities to demonstrate service to your Lord. The Trinity United Prayer Chain needs more prayer partners. We have seen prayer works in our lives and those we petition before the Almighty. The Lord wants us to use it. The other opportunity is to serve as a church offering counter. I will be calling many of you to give of your time before the Lord on your knees to petition the needs of fellow members,
friends, and issues of our community. CHURCH OFFERING COUNTERS Are you willing to answer the call to serve to ensure the proper recording and depositing of our church offerings?To make sure that our financial giving is properly recorded and deposited in the bank.
Sharing Christ's Love Through Action'.
Betty Nelson, Council President
HELP WANTED
Have you considered volunteering to be a part of our worship services this New Year? Please contact the following people:
Reader : Betty Nelson
Ushers : John Hansen
Assisting Ministers : Betty Nelson

“Caring Hands” – Beyond Our Building Pastor Caroline of St. Paul’s has volunteered to train individuals who are interested in providing Holy Communion to our shut-ins. This program will be an extension of our parish nurse program. Carole Johnson visits many of our shut-ins and expressed a need for this type of volunteer program. This will be a wonderful opportunity to reach out to our members at home

Within Our Community

C.O.O.L. (Christian Outreach of Lutherans) is a 501(c)(3) social service agency located in Waukegan, IL, serving all of Lake County. It was founded by people from six Lutheran churches in Waukegan and began in January 1983. COOL is supported by individual donations, church donations, United Way, corporate, private and government funding.
PADS NEWS
PADS is pleased to announce the opening of a summer shelter site at Holy Family (914 -- 8th Street, Waukegan). The site is open 7 days a week. Volunteers are especially needed on Saturdays and Sundays during the months of August and September. Three shifts are available. No food preparation required. Please contact Cedric Lee at 847-689-4357 x-103 for more information

COOL Transitional Housing is looking for people willing to donate a few hours a month to be a mentor to the kids. Also needed are people to serve as guest speakers to the adults in the program on a one time, scheduled basis about a special skill that you have to offer that could improve their lives. For more information, please contact Michelle Rivers at 847-662-1340, ext. 2.

COOL Needs Pantry Volunteers
To volunteer please call Diana Fishman at 847-662-1340.
For food drive information please call Amber Abbott at 847-662-1230

Help provide a family with a C.O.O.L.
Food Pantry Holiday Food Basket
Canned Ham (no refrigeration}
Canned Fruit
Muffin Mix
Canned Yams
Cake Mix & Frosting
Canned Veggies (16 oz.)
Box Instant Potatoes / Gravy Packet
Powered Milk

PADS WISH LIST
Groceries: Cereal - hot or cold, Decaf coffee and tea, Dry creamer and sugar Canned Foods: Stew, Canned spaghetti/ravioli, Chunky soups
Paper Goods: Toilet paper, Paper towels, Plastic utensils (no knives), Plastic/ foam plates/bowls/cups, Paper napkins
Individual Packs: Canned fruit - easy open, Snack size chips/pretzels, Snack size cookies/crackers, Juice boxes
Office: File folders, fax machine, office supplies, paper Personal: Chapstick and Foot powder
New Clothing: New t-shirts L-XL-2XL, Men's underwear- S-M-L-XL, Men's jeans, Men's socks
Miscellaneous: Laundry soap, Cleaning supplies, Cough drops, Fast food certificates, Grocery store certificates, Retail store certificates, Single-trip PACE fare cards, ALL sizes plastic and trash bags, Hand-operated can openers, Liquid hand soap, Pre-paid phone cards, Washcloths
To find out about current clothing needs or to schedule an appointment to drop off a donation, please call Diana at 847-689-4357, extension 104.

In 2005 COOL is developing a "Special Needs" Menu for visitors with health issues who come to us for food assistance. We are asking your help by providing food to fill our "Special Needs" shelves at the food pantry. With your help we will be able to improve our service to visitors seeking this type of assistance. Please purchase items from this list whenever possible. Thank you for your continued support!
MEAT/PROTEIN BREADS & GRAINS
Low Salt/Low Fat Peanut Butter Low Salt/Fat Crackers
Canned Tuna in Water Graham Crackers
Canned Salmon in Water Whole Wheat Rice & Spaghetti
Canned Chicken in Water Dry Cereal (no sugar added)
Unsalted Nuts VEGETABLES
SNACKS Low Salt Canned Vegetables
Sugar Free Cookies Low Salt Tomato Sauce
Baked Potato Chips FRUITS
Sugar Free Jell-O Canned Fruit in Light Syrup
Fig Newtons 100% Real Fruit Juice

C.O.O.L. HOUSE PINS
louse pins continue to be a popular fundraiser for COOL and are always available. New designs are regularly received.
'here is always a need for volunteers at COOL -- either at the pantry, for our 9 housing units, or for any fundraiser. If you are interested in elping, please call Diana Fishman at the Pantry, 847-662-9340.
Thank you so much for your continuted support to C.O.O.L.! Sharron Morrison & Jan Heikkila Trinity United's C.O.O.L. Board Members
The COOL Food Pantry is in need of more refrigerator and freezer space. We are looking for an additional upright freezer plus a refrigerator unit. If you are able to assist us, please call the COOL Food Pantry at 847-662-1230.
COOL
COOL Seeks Pantry Aid
The COOL Food Pantry is seeking a pantry aide to pick-up and unload our weekly food order from Northern Illinois Food Bank in Park City. Candidate would be needed from 8:00 AM to 12 Noon on Mondays. Candidate must have Illinois Driver’s License in good standing, and must be able to lift 50 pounds. INTERESTED PERSONS SHOULD CONTACT DIANE WEBER AT 847-662-1340, MAILBOX “1” FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Trinity's food of the month : C.O.O.L. TUNA

COOL News
C.O.O.L. Tidings
COOL FOOD PANTRY is in desperate need for paper shopping bags to be used at the Pantry to pack groceries for our guests. All help is greatly appreciated!
ELCA WORLD HUNGER APPEAL
Hungry people are down the street, in the next town, the next state, the next country, across the world, and maybe even in our church members homes. Our national church's ELCA World Hunger Appeal requests each of us to respond on Sunday, January 5th with an extra effort offering. Please give for your brothers and sisters around the world.
COOL Transitional Housing Program is a scattered-site transitional program for homeless families motivated to receive counseling, budget assistance and other life skills training to enable self-sufficiency. Phase 1 is rent and utility paid housing for an individually determined period of time not to exceed 12 months. Phase II is for families who have successfully completed Phase I or are at that level of low rent payment and ongoing life-skills training. We maintain 9 units, 7 in Waukegan and 2 in Zion. This program is not emergency shelter. For an application call the Case Manager at (847) 662-1340. FAX: (847)1341.
Call Transitional Housing to volunteer on a "project" basis for furniture moving, painting, small home repairs, etc.
C.O.O.L. Transitional Housing is in urgent need of the following items:

Twin size mattresses and box springs
Twin size and full size sheets
Bath towels and washcloths, kitchen towels and washcloths
Dressers
The COOL Maintenance Team is looking for six individuals (possibly a group) who have gas-powered weed whackers to take down weeds at one of our transitional housing buildings. If you are interested in assisting,If you have any of these items to donate, please call Diana Fishman at 662- 1340, mailbox 3. Your help really makes a difference!

PADS
Thank you to all the dedicated volunteers involved in the Souper Bowl, which raised $697 for our P.A.D.S. Program site expenses. Lutheran Brotherhood matched an additional $450 for a total of $1,147.
For all those who supported the event, THANK YOU!
PADS Annual Tag Day is Saturday, October 11th.
VISTA STAR HOSPICE
Vista Star Hospice program welcomes volunteers (ages 18 & over) to provide support to terminally ill patients receiving hospice care and their families. Men, women, students, business people and homemakers are all encouraged to participate. Orientation will begin October 5th at St. Therese Medical Center. Duties will range from talking and listening to light housekeeping and shopping. For more information, please contact Colleen MacCready at 847-360-2452.
Thank you from everyone at Star Hospice!
LOVE Inc
Lake County LOVE, Inc. Had Busy Year
A LOVE, Inc. article that appeared in the News Sun stated that more than 700 requests were answered in 1999. About 1,000 children were helped. The Annual Adopt A Family Christmas project helped 59 families, for a total of 238 persons. Eleven churches, including Trinity, participated in this effort.
LOVE, Inc. Furniture Ministry received 290 donated pieces of furniture in 1999 and distributed 241 pieces to the needy. A total of 66 families were helped. A truck is now available to pick up and deliver furniture.
In November 160 packets of school supplies were donated by the American Red Cross to be distributed by churches in the LOVE, Inc. network to local school children through the Adopt A Family Christmas project.
FURNITURE MINISTRY
The Bridge between Churches helping their Community Get involved with the people who need you in Lake County. What better way than giving a few hours, one Saturday a month, donating your time with the furniture outreach. There are people who are facing a hardship for one reason or another. They need furniture, beds, baby items, etc. and we have people in Lake County willing to donate these items. Won't you join us in getting these items to the people who need them? We need 5 to 8 healthy volunteers, pulling together, in the name of Christ. Let's reach out to those in need! Joan Roseman Love Inc. Furniture Outreach
Above are some of the statistics received for Lake Co. Trinity activities included a request for a stylist who provided hairstyling for a wheelchair-bound individual. Four families were adopted at Christmas.
Would you like to help out a family other than your own this Christmas? The annual "Adopt A Family" program through Love Inc. is getting under way. You don't have to be a Love Inc. volunteers to be able to do this. Love Inc. provides names for as many families as we have volunteers. Volunteers will be given names, ages and gift ideas for the family they adopt. You can request a small family or a large one. In the past we have had people go in together and provide for one family, or persons that work together provide gifts for one household. Donations can be given as individual gifts, or a Christmas dinner can be provided. Contact Debbie Shaffer if you are interested in adopting a family. Your gift to those in need spreads Christmas joy and is a fine example of love, in the name of Christ.
Love, Inc. of Lake County provides services to persons in need of, such as home maintenance, painting, plumbing, temporary child care, transportation, just to name a few. Church members volunteer in the area that they can help. Anyone can contact Love, Inc. at 680-5462 to request services they might need Love, Inc. of Lake County is part of a nationwide network of World Vision affiliates, whose mission is to help churches help people in need with neighbor to neighbor assistance provided through churches and local agencies. LOVE, Inc. receives requests, verifies the need, finds the best way to help, and provides follow up service.
If you or a family member would be interested in being a LOVE, Inc. volunteer, call Debbie Shaffer or the church. A volunteer activity form will be sent for your choice of areas in which to serve.
What is LOVE INC?
LOVE INC is a clearinghouse where all requests are referred to appropriate sources of help. It offers no direct or onsite services.
LOVE, Inc. is Churches Helping People
Christmas is coming! The annual LOVE, Inc. "Adopt a Family" Christmas program is getting under way. Volunteers will have the opportunity to reach out to those less fortunate. They may be able to help a singer mother struggling alone, or a family dealing with illness or job loss by providing Christmas gifts and/or Christmas dinner for them. Your gifts to others will bring just as much back to you and your family just knowing your are sharing the love of the Christmas season.
Volunteers will be given names, ages and gift ideas for their families. A bible will also be given to each family. Please contact Debbie Shaffer; if you are interested in the holiday giving.
What are some of the services provided by LOVE INC?
PROJECT LAKESIDE
Project Lakeside is now under way. As you know, Lakeside is a work and Training Center. They do have other needs but we will concentrate on arts and crafts, such as construction paper, water color paints, colored pencils, magic markers and large beads. Please place your donation in the container in Larson Hall. Questions? Contact Sandy Sorensen..
ElderCARE @Christ Church(847-360-4004).
CELEBRATING CAREGIVING MINISTRY
As part of our caregiving ministry activity, some of our church members are part of ElderCARE@ChristChurch's outreach and caregiving ministry program. The following from our congregation are active in this community service to homebound elders:
Marioiz Foster, Arlene Lab, Mildred Jelovsek, Bonnie Oldfleld, Diana Knoble, Joan Pecina, Ed & Betty Nelson, Annette Daluge
Trinity members have provided over 843 volunteer hours since this program began.
Too often we only hear about the cynicism of our world.. the bad news in our community. Eldercare volunteers involved in this caregiving and outreach ministry combat that cynicism each time they perform a small act of great love. Please support this work as it continues to meet the growing needs of our homebound elders.
IF you are interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities or know of someone needing services (either through the general program, or TIMEOUT RespiteCARE), please call 360-4004.
ELDERCARE @ Christ Church
ELDERCARE @ Christ Church VOLUNTEER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES Training is required for the following volunteer opportunities. Please choose one of the available training locations and dates. Training is free: however, registration is required. To register, please call 847-360-4004.
Congestive Heart Failure Tele-Friend Project
A trained telephone volunteer is matched with a patient following discharge from the hospital. The Volunteer will call the patient on a regular basis to offer helpful encouragement and assistance in following the physician's care plan

General Volunteer Program
Volunteers provide friendly visits, grocery store shopping, household chores and transportation to medical appointments for low-income, homebound elders.
Lutherdale : DOLLARS AND DIMES FOR DIGGING
Our church camp, Lutherdale, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin is a place where our young and old can retreat to be refreshed and renewed in Christ.
The camp is in need of a new sewer system and replacing cabins that are no longer usable.
The goal is $1 million dollars. Please donate to this worthy cause by using the pew envelope and marking it to Lutherdale. Checks may be made out to Trinity United Lutheran Church. Contributions may also be mailed to the church at 658 Grand Avenue. More information is posted in Larson Hall.
Disaster Relief
Unfortunately, the new year is beginning with major international disasters. The volcanic eruption in the Congo, together with the continuing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, are events that call for our church's members to respond. These are places where the ELCA, through its International Disaster Response arm, was present to offer help in the first hours following the disaster's outbreak. In these and other disaster locations, our church is grateful to have partners, such as Lutheran World Relief and the Lutheran World Federation, that have long worked in relief and development and therefore can be ready to respond immediately when disasters strike. Now, these same partners will remain in these places long after the media's attention wanes.
Last year, Lutherans responded it overwhelming and generous ways to the tragic events in our country and abroad. Please help our church continue to carry out its mission to people in great need in all corners of God's world.
Lita Brusick Johnson Director of ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal
We Continue to Collect Labels!
More than just Campbell's Soup. Vlasic Dills or olives, Pace Picante, Mrs. Paul's, V-8, Prego Spaghetti Sauce.. see the bulletin board in the parking lot entrance for the complete list and the place to put them.
Wheat Ridge Ministries is a Lutheran foundation seeding new ministries of health and hope in the name of the healing Christ. I hope that our focus on Lutheran social ministry organizations and congregations will be of value to your parish. Additional resources are also available through our web site.
"Senior's' Help Hotline, Labor of Love," is a new program to help seniors.
Whether it is a ride to church, help with a chore around the house, run an errand; shovel snow; cut some grass, etc. Call Diana Knoble after 6 PM on weekdays and any time on weekends. You can also call the church and they will forward the call to me. Don't hesitate to call. We are here for you. We care.

What Is A Prayer Chain And How Does It Operate?
When anyone has a prayer request, they contact one of the members of the prayer chain. (A member of the chain can also start a prayer request on their own.) The chain passes the information on to the next member on the list until it makes a complete circle.
The following make up our current Prayer Chain:
Diana & Ken Endress,
Pastor Willard & Virginia Blomquist
Hazel Moore
Betty & Ed Nelson
Gladys Piat
Bonnie & Terry Oldfield
Carol, Terry & Brian Fisher
Donna & John Hansen

If you have a prayer request you would like included on the chain, please contact any of the persons named above. You may give your name, or not, as you prefer. If you would like more information, or if you would like to become a part of the chain, please contact Betty Nelson.

Trinity United Lutheran Church's Volunteer Form

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