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One Great Weekend of Service

On Sunday, November 6, 2011, we will come together as a faith community to serve those in our community. Below is a description of the Projects available. It is too late to pick a project preference, but you can still participate as you'll be placed on a project that still needs volunteers.

2011 Project Descriptions

Wildcard Project - For the adventurous volunteer willing to serve wherever is needed, write "wildcard" on the registration form and you will be assigned to a project needing more help.

Projects following the 9:30 am services

#1 One Great Weekend Photographers

• Create a visual review of the day’s events
• Leader: Gerald Hutchinson
• Service: Visit project sites and take digital pictures for One Great Weekend of Service celebration slide show
• Volunteers: 8Adults

#2 Blumenthal Nursing & Rehab Center: Pet Therapy

• Senior Living Community offering comprehensive health-care services to people of all faiths
• Leader: Greg Rosendale
• Service: Visit senior living community with animals
• Volunteers: 15 for all ages

#3Joseph's House: Organize Clothes

• A faith-based, nonprofit organization improving the lives of homeless young adults in Guilford County
• Leader: Rebecca Austin
• Service: Organize clothes in the drop-in Resource Center/repair cabinets
• Volunteers: 10-12 Adults

#4Kopper Top Life Learning Center: Weeding & Animal Care

• Provides therapeutic horseback riding, recreational therapy, and animal-assisted therapy to individual with or without disabilities
• Leader: Kelley Elmore
• Service: Wee flower beds; feed animals; brush horses
• Volunteers: 15-20 for all ages

#5 Lake Brandt Campus: Spruce Up

• Leader: Glen Robertson/Harlon Costner
• Service: Indoor and outdoor spruce up
• Volunteers: 20-25 for all ages

#6 LIFESPAN: Interior Painting

• LIFESPAN transforms the lives of children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing education, employment and enrichment opportunities that promote inclusion, choice, family support
• Leader: Steve Fricke
• Service: Interior painting/hallways/bathroom
• Volunteers: 10-12 adults

#7 Peacehaven Farm: Harvest Celebration Set-up (FULL)

• Community for people with intellectual disabilities
• Leader: Rhonda Horney
• Service: Set up and food prep for the annual Harvest Celebration
• Volunteers:20 High School to Adults

Projects following the 11 am services

#8 Barnabas Furniture Ministry: Residential Door Hangers

• Serves families in need of assistance with furniture
• Leader: Lenwood Collins
• Service: Residential door hangers for furniture donations
• Volunteers: 20 for all ages

#9 Carriage House: Pet Therapy

• Carriage House Senior Living Community is an assisted living and Alzheimer's care support residence in Greensboro
• Leader: Betty Neighbours
• Service:Visit senior living community with animals

#10 Friendly Avenue: Spruce Up Campus

• Leader: Kenny Carper
• Service:Landscaping spruce up around Friendly Avenue
• Volunteers: 10-15 for all ages
  

#11 Glen Haven Apartments

• These apartments are home to many refugee students at Jesse Wharton Elementary School
• Leader: Ann Morris
• Service: Improve playground area; mulch, tile to replace carpet (flooring skills a plus)
• Volunteers: 15-20 for all ages

#12 Heritage Greens Memory Care: Planting Flower Beds

• Senior living community offering independent, assisted and Alzheimer's care
• Leader: Caryl Johnson
• Service: Prepare flower beds for fall and plan seasonal flowers
• Volunteers: 8-10 for all ages

#13 Hospice Campus: Outdoor Clean Up

• Hospice provides compassionate, quality care for people with a progressive and life-limiting illness & their families
• Leaders: Roger Cates
• Service: General outdoor clean up
• Volunteers: 12-15 teens to adults

#14 Interactive Resource Center (IRV): Garden Preparation

• A Greensboro day center serving the poor and homeless that connects them with hope and resources to help themselves towards a brighter future
• Leader:Jim Booe
• Service: Garden preparation
• Volunteers: 10 for all ages

#15 Kids Path Families and Hospice Patients: Prepare Freezer-ready Meals

• Kids Path offers home-based care for children with serious illness and counseling support for grieving children
• Leader: Janet Nelson and Ann Brown
• Service: Prepare meals for kids Path families, Hospice patients and Westminster members in need
• Volunteers: 8-10 for all ages
• Location: Friendly Avenue main kitchen

#16 Out of the Garden Project:

• Out of the Garden Project is committed to making a difference in the lives of children who would otherwise go to bed hungry
• Leader: Chris Skidmore
• Service: Stock shelves, pack food bags, etc.
• Volunteers: For Outrageous Outreach and their families

#17 Pathways Shelter: Game Time and Lunch (FULL)

• Provides temporary shelter to homeless families and children
• Leader: Wendy Jones
• Service: Game time and lunch for residents
• Volunteers: 6 to 8 for all ages. Individuals younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult

#18 Sewing Ministry: Baby and Toddler Quilts

• Leader: Lilly Weeks
• Service: Baby and toddler quilts for Mary's House
• Volunteers: 15-20 High School to adults (seamstresses and non-seamstresses needed)
• Location: Room 100

#19 Spring Arbor: Pet Therapy

• An Assisted Living & Senor Living community
• Leader: Michele Brainerd
• Service: Visit senior living community with animals
• Volunteers:15 people/5 pets maximum for all ages

# 20 Welfare Reform Liaison Project: Sorting and Packing

• Faith-based "welfare to work" program focusing on job training and hands-on learning in a distribution center
• Leader: Katie and Jeff Hu
• Service: Sorting and packing items in warehouse
• Volunteers:30+ fro all ages

#21 White Stone: Bingo

• Senior Living community founded as a Masonic and Eastern Star  Community
• Leader: Carrie Ganim
• Service: Bingo with residents
• Volunteers: 10-15 for all ages
  

#22: Youth House: Spruce Up

• Leader:Barry Carpenter/Spence Miller
• Service: Landscaping spruce up around the Youth House/memorial garden
• Volunteers: 15 for all ages
  

Projects at Special Times

#23 One Great Weekend of Service: Ice Cream Social

• Leader: Denise Booe/Wendy Ziegler
• Service: Baking cookies for social and logistics/food for ice cream sundaes
• Volunteers: 10 youth and adults

#24 One Great Weekend of Service: Lunch Preparation (FULL)

• Leader: Chris Marriott
• Service: Prepare sack lunches for One Great Weekend volunteers
• Time: 8:30 am
• Location: Friendly Avenue main kitchen and fellowship hall
• Volunteers: 10-12 for all ages