Food On the First Volunteers We need help bagging the food collected on the first Sunday of the month.  It takes about 45 minutes at most beginning after the 11 am service.  Contact: Laura Riker: email: lsr228@verizon.net

Day Break Volunteers We need help preparing meals on the 3rd Friday and 5th Wednesday of each month.  Baked goods also needed.  Contact: Helen Underwood: email: horsedriver@hotmail.com

Book Blast!   Do you have a little time to share with the children of our partner school, Roosevelt Elementary, to help encourage them to read? Volunteers are needed to assist the teacher and to listen to children read.  It’s a great program filled with children who want to be there, they just need YOU!   Roosevelt Elementary School is located at: 210 W. Susquehanna St., Allentown.  Contact: John Ford: email: jhford@ptd.net

Book BLAST is on the third Thursday of the month during the school year, from 5:45pm-7:15pm. Next Book BLAST: December 16.

Tutor at Roosevelt Elementary School   Do you have a little time to share with the children of our partner school, Roosevelt Elementary, to help encourage them to read? Volunteers are needed to assist the teacher and to listen to children read.  It’s a great program filled with children who want to be there, they just need YOU!   Contact: Becky Tacca: email: tacca@ptd.net  

Roosevelt Elementary School (210 W. Susquehanna St., Allentown)
Another school year is underway and your help is needed with some exciting programs! No special skills needed.  Various organizations are sponsoring activities and need volunteers including:

• Community Bike Works: Sept. 22-Dec. 15, Wednesdays 3-5pm

• DaVinci Center Chemistry: Sept. 27-Nov. 1, Mondays 3-4pm

• DaVinci Lights and Sound: Nov. 3- Dec. 8, Wednesdays 3-4pm

• Banana Factory: Sept. 29- Dec.1, Wednesdays 3-4pm

Contact Katherine Jackson at 484-765-4468 or jacksonk@allentownsd.org

Refugee ministry:  
To volunteer: contact Leni Harriott, 610-762-3981 or Leni@rcn.com

• Drivers for church on Sunday and during the week for appointments
• Someone with a truck to pick up donations (no lifting required)
• Life skill coach (teach how to buy groceries, use a stove, oven, indoor plumbing)
• Help with job development 
• Click here to read how you can help with immediate needs
• E.S.L. Tutors:  Are you listening for your call to do God’s work in the world? Here is a wonderful opportunity- no experience needed! Recent refugees in our area are anxious to learn English, but they need tutors. A newly formed tutor committee with coordinators will help train, advise, and provide materials, but they need volunteers. An hour to 1 ½ hours, once a week is all you need— you can even choose the day and time. If you are feeling called to this ministry, please contact the tutor coordinator, Mary Newbegin:  newbegin.r@rcn.com; 610-395-6611.

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