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.
Four Seasons Hospice
Four Seasons will be offering Volunteer Training in March 2010. A 3-1/2 hour Orientation is required of every Four Seasons volunteer. A further 14 hours of classes are required for patient care volunteers. Anyone in the community is welcome to attend these free sessions without any obligation to volunteer. Place and dates will be announced later. For further info/registration contact Donna Nawrocki, Director of Volunteer Service, at 233-0327 or Joe Gernoske.Volunteers Needed for the Sound Booth
If you can “push a button”, then you can do the job. Please contact Russ Russell (698-0228) if you would like to do this.Drivers Needed
If you are able and willing to transport a resident or two from Carolina Village or Lake Pointe Landing to our 11:00 a.m. worship service, please contact Joe Gernoske. You need not commit to more than one Sunday per month.Sunday Doorman
Volunteers are needed to assist Joe Boterf in "manning" the doors on Sunday morning. If you would like to help on a regular schedule or even substitute it would be a great help. Call Joe at 697-5659.Rescue Mission
Trinity Church volunteers to serve the dinner meal every Wednesday
evening all year long. We currently need one person (male or female) to
assist Dick Wheeler on the 3rd Wednesday of each month for about one and
one-half hours. We also need to add to our Substitute List. If you can
help, please call Chuck Leaverton, 890-5838.Trinity Preschool Yard Sale
Trinity Preschool is asking for donations for their annual yard sale each October. If you have items to donate please bring them to the church before September 30th. If you need assistance in getting them to the church, please call Neena at 606-5202.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.
- 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 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 contact Jay Barr.
900 Blythe Street, Hendersonville, NC 28791
828-692-6114 trinity@trinitypresnc.org