For a list of Volunteer opportunities with Henderson County Agencies supported by Trinity Presbyterian Church please download the "Reach Out and Serve" booklet (pdf).

Below is a list of current or specific needs both at Trinity and in the community.

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At the Church Trinity Preschool Yard Sale Kids Up Worship Trinity Food Care Program Wonderful Wednesday Kitchen Help Friends of Jesus Kitchen Help Trinity Preschool Buildings & Grounds Coffee Hour

In the Community Hunger Walk School Supply Drive IAM Trinity Head Start LEEP Tutoring Faith Link Four Seasons Hospice FISH Medical Transport

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Trinity Preschool Yard Sale
Trinity Preschool is asking for donations for their annual yard sale which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, October 3rd and 4th.  If you have items to donate please bring them to the church before Tuesday, September 30th.  If you need assistance in getting them to the church, please call Neena at 606-5202.

Hunger Walk
September is the month that Church Members Walk for Hunger. It is when we confront one of the hidden realities of our prosperous community, hunger amidst our own folks. That’s the bad news, the good news is that church folk are doing something about it.  Trinity members, including many of our youth, will raise funds to support our partners at Interfaith Assistance Ministries, The Rescue Mission, MANNA Food Bank, Mainstay, Salvation Army, Council on Aging, and  five other agencies as they serve the hungry of our county.  Walk with us if you can, or sponsor our walkers with a donation, and we’ll give all the glory to the One who sponsors us.  Last year we raised over $85,000. Walkers meet at Jackson Park at 7:30 am on September 20 and will walk five miles. Call Don Hauck at 697-5087, Chuck Leaverton at 890-5838   or the church office to volunteer to be a walker or a sponsor.  “Lord, when did we see you Hungry?”  Matt 25:44

School Supply Drive
Every year, Interfaith Assistance Ministry collects donations of school supplies and backpacks for students whose families are in financial crisis.  Help us help Henderson County students begin the new school year with the supplies they need to do their best.  Items needed are backpacks, 3-ring binders, notebook paper, dividers, calculators, index cards, mechanical pencils, colored markers, pocket folders, pencil sharpeners, safety scissors, highlighters and marbled notebooks.  Money for the purchase of school supplies is always welcome, Please write “school supplies” in the memo line of your check and send to IAM, P. O. Box 2562, Hendersonville 28793 or donations may be dropped off Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at IAM, 210 Ehringhaus Street or call 697-7029 for more information.  They may also be placed in the IAM containers in the hallway in the education wing of Trinity.

Interfaith Assistance Ministry (IAM)
IAM is an agency supported by Trinity and has identified the following needs for March: bar soap, shampoo, disposable razors, toothpaste and toothbrushes. Please leave items in the boxes marked IAM at the church.

Kids Up Worship Volunteers Needed
Can you give one Sunday a month to help with Kids Up, our 11:00 a.m. children’s worship program? Come and experience worship of God through the eyes of God’s littlest children. If you’re interested, please see or call Deeana Bennett.

Trinity Food Care Program
Several years ago a Food Care Program was started to furnish food for Trinity members who are temporarily incapacitated due to injury, illness, recovery from surgery or just need a little TLC. Casseroles and soups are prepared in advance and stored in the church kitchen. We need to update the list of volunteers who are williing to help. Traditionally each volunteer has not been called on more than twice a year. To help contact Don and Brenda Holmer (694-0300) or Liz Davis (697-9430).

Wonderful Wednesday Kitchen Help
When several work together the work becomes easy and filled with fellowship. When one works alone the task can become overwhelming. Sign up on the Keosk or see Carole Ball for more information.

Friends of Jesus Kitchen Help Needed
If you can help with food preparation and cleanup for our new Wednesday night children’s program, Friends of Jesus, please sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex. But be warned: If you experience Friends of Jesus once, you may be hooked!

Faith Link
Faith Link is teams of members from nine Henderson County churches that mentor working poor families struggling to gain financial self-sufficiency. It was started at the request of the County Board of Commissioners during the time of “welfare reform”. Two part-time staff persons are funded by the County Department of Social Services, but they are employed and officed at Interfaith Assistance Ministry. Nine church teams have mentored over fifty families with more than 150 children over 8 years. Trinity’s Faith Link team currently partners with two single mother families with a total of four children ranging in age from one year to eight years old, two boys and two girls. Trinity’s team consists of twelve people. Two persons from the team are assigned to relate to each family. The rest of the team finds ways to be supportive of the mentors. Trinity members can help by

• Praying for the mentors and families
• Joining the team, especially if you would like to be a mentor. More families need this kind of partnership than the current church teams can take care of.
  Call Mac Hart at 697-6911.
• Donate your old car, or the computer you are updating, or other items a family might need. Call Faith Link staff person Janna Davis at 697-7029. 
• Support and advocate for legislation at county, state and nation levels that help alleviate the increasingly desperate plight of the working poor in this country. 

LEEP 
Learning Enrichment and Enhancement Program is a tutoring and parenting enrichment program of the nine Henderson County Faith Link churches. It takes place at Trinity on Wednesday nights during the school year in connection with our Wednesday night dinners. The Faith Link families eat with our congregation. After dinner, volunteer tutors, most of themTrinity members, help the kids with their homework and work with them on other particular learning needs specific to each child. Meanwhile Faith Link staff person Janna Davis conducts a support group for the parents designed to help them improve their parenting skills, but withspecial emphasis on how they can help their kids do well in their schooling. Trinity members can help by

• Welcoming and getting to know the Faith Link families at Wednesday dinners.
• Volunteering as tutors, or substitute tutors. Call LEEP Coordinator Eleanor Beardsley at 693-1423.
• Donating age appropriate educational materials for elementary and middle school kids. Call Eleanor Beardsley at 693-1423.
• Do you have extra dictionaries which you do not need? Our LEEP families can put them to good use. Please bring them to the church office.

Trinity Head Start
(Note: Head Start is not the same as Trinity Playgroup)
The Head Start program at Trinity has changed over the past two years. We are no longer a center that has regular daily students. This year we are the “office” for a group of home-based programs. There are five groups, one for each day of the week, with up to 12 students in each group. These students are invited to Trinity a day every other week for “socialization.” Unfortunately many of the students do not make it to socialization. One difficulty is transportation. The rules will not allow the Head Start staff to transport students; even though they are allowed to transport parents and family members.

If you might be willing to assist with transportation – they start about 9:00 and end about 11:45 – please contact Maria Dubon at 696-6671 or Deb Haight at 693 6670.

Trinity Preschool
Trinity Preschool, our morning preschool and a mission of the church, is in need of volunteers to join the 3 and 4 year old classes, Tuesday thru Friday. If you are interested in spending a morning playing, teaching and learning with young children, please contact Sherri Griffin (696-4110).

Buildings and Grounds
The B&G Committee is looking for people interested in working in the outside gardens and/or with the plants inside. This can be at your convenience and as little as a few hours a month/year. A description of what is needed and an explanation of how to do it is posted on the bulletin board in the narthex. Also posted is the location of the church’s equipment you may use if you wish not to use your own. Thank you in advance for your help. Please contact Don Osterburg (697-8198) or Jim Norris (685-1076) with questions.

Four Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care
We offer grief counseling services to children. Our Heart Songs program is a bereavement program that is very specific to children. Children grieve differently than adults and need special types of counseling. Studies have shown that children who receive counseling are more likely to lead healthy productive lives, and are less likely to let their loss negatively affect their future.

For more information contact Lora Mason, Director of Volunteer Services, at 692-6178.

Coffee Hour Help Needed
We are grateful to those who have voluntarily prepared coffee on Sunday mornings. This is an asset to social time between services on Sunday mornings. The continuation of this service is contingent upon volunteers. A sign up sheet is on the kiosk in the narthex.

FISH Medical Transport
FISH (For Immediate Sympathetic Help) provides non-emergency medical transportationn for ambulatory Henderson County residents to get them to and from their medical appointments.

Telephone volunteers are needed to schedule drivers. Serve on-half day a month from the comfort and convenience of your own home.

Drivers are needed to transport clients to hosopitals, clinics, doctors and dentists. You determine how often you are available.

For more information call:
Myrl Jean Hughes, 891-5556 (telephone volunteers)
Betty Jane Miller, 891-6440 (driver volunteers)