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VOLUNTEER
We are loved to love! Come serve along side us as we unveil God's love together-

STEP #1
Pray about where you want to volunteer.

STEP #2

Click here to fill out an online serving form.

If you have selected to volunteer with the Children, Small Groups or Youth Ministry please fill out the required interview questions below:

Children's Ministry Interview

Small Group Interview

Youth Ministry Interview

STEP #3 
You can look forward to hearing from me within five days. 

Congratulations on joining our team!

Anita Strychalski
Volunteer Coordinator
anita.strychalski@shoreline.net

 

CREATIVE WAYS TO SERVE OTHERS

Extend your Heart ideas:

Prayer Works - Mobilize people who will diligently pray for all kindness endeavours that come out of your local church and ministry.

Mobilise Wisdom - Mature people being available to give advice to younger people (same gender). Those who have 'been there and successfully done it' before.

Poetry in Motion - Send a card with a nice verse to someone.

Ring Ring - Ring and have a chat with someone who you know lives on their own and take them out for lunch if they are able to get out.

Paper Oh! - Hand deliver your neighbours' local newspapers to their door.

Adopt a Friend - Make an effort to become a friend of someone in church, someone who is not in relationship with Jesus, or maybe a student who has just moved to your town and would benefit from a family environment.

Help Line - Make an encouraging phone call to a person going through a tough time... "you will make it!"

Hands of Warmth - Go visit the Children's Hospital and bring a smile to a little face.

Just a small word - Thank everyone in your day that helps you in any way at all.

Extend your Time and Energy ideas:

Heart to Heart - Pool human resources to BLESS those experiencing tragedy.

The Beat - Initiate a group of people who clean houses, make meals or do handy work for those who are sick or needy.

Bringers - Be available to bring and coordinate to bring people to Shoreline Church.

Baby-sitters - Offer to baby-sit and give a couple a night out.

Food Works - Cook a meal for a neighbour/family.

Action Speaks - Take a flower to all the shop assistants where you regularly shop.

Iron-a-thon - Do a older person's ironing for them.

Born To Shop - Offer to do shopping for the sick or elderly.

Lady Drivers - Drive someone to their doctor's appointment. Offer to drive a busy parent's children to soccer, school carnivals, church etc.

Sweet Things - Bake a cake or pudding for someone.

Soft Touch - Organize a pamper day for five friends.

House minders - Offer to house-sit while folks are away on holidays.

Dig Deep - Do the garden for your neighbour, the sick, frail or solo parent.

Free Pass - Pay for the tolls of the 1 or 2 cars that are behind you.

Surprise! - Visit the elderly with your children.

Suds Away - Wash someone's car.

Sip & Clean - Have a 'cuppa and cupboard' day. Clean cupboards for people unable to clean their own for whatever reason.

Kids Galore - Organize free child care in centres across your town.

1+1=2 - Do some kind of workshop on how to budget.

Vollies Are Great - Volunteer to do an outreach with some kind of charity program.

Squeaky Clean - Pay to have someone else's pooch washed when you organize to have your own pooch washed.

Party Animal - Have a neighbourhood party for no reason at all - invite the people on both sides and across the street.

Moms Rule! - Take a mom with young kids somewhere where the kids can play.She can have a coffee and relax, and you do all the supervising of the kids (e.g. local leisure centre, soft play etc)

Green Grass - Mow the front lawn of the people next door.

Play Detectives - Find out from your church those who have practical needs that you can meet... and do them.

Love the Aged - Pampering day at an Aged Care Facility - visit those the church already has contact with: manicures, massages etc.

Bless a Senior Day - Take a Senior out somewhere or stay at home and do something that needs doing for them.

Angel Day - Help someone from the congregation who needs assistance or companionship of some kind. Anything from a visit to something more practical.

Movie Time - Invite neighbours to see a movie with you.

Home Church Day - Have a day of getting into anything around the church that needs doing, from rearranging cupboards to cleaning out the closets.

Extend these "NO TIME AT ALL" ideas:

Meals with Smiles - Invite neighbours over for lunch or dinner.

Roll 'em out - Put out AND return the neighbour's garbage bins.

Games Night - Invite neighbours over for a fun night of games.

Clean and Sweep – Sweep neighbour's leaves as well as your own.

Dogs Rule - Walk the neighbour's dog the same time you walk your own.

Christmas Giving - Pass the neighbors a Christmas present to put under their tree from your family.

Birthday Bliss - Make yourself aware of someone's birthday, and send them a card.

Invite someone dining solo to join you and pay for their meal.

Heaven on Earth - Organize a 'Dial an Angel' to do the housework for someone having a baby (if you're not available to do it yourself) so the house is nice and clean when they come back from hospital.

Thoughtfulness - Find out what magazines your neighbours like to read, and if appropriate, purchase a subscription for them for a time.

Feel Good - Pay for a neighbor to have a facial, massage or the like.

Gifts of Strength - Prepare gifts for parents with children in hospital.

Free Time - Pay for a family pass to the zoo, theme park, or movies etc.

Financial Works - Business people who are willing to offer financial help to those the church deem are in real financial need. Not paying people's debts but helping them through the really tough times.

Night on the Town - Pay for a baby-sitter and for the parents to go out to dinner. Cover the cost of the whole night.