This brochure is a tool for and let them know when you are Sorting and packing donated items for coming. families in need and registering adults Candidates, Parents & applying for financial assistance * Helping seniors carry and put away groceries at Sponsors. Many parish groups are good resources to Martha Washington Senior Apartments *

connect our youth with people in need Cleaning up garbage in the neighborhood or - Candidates - during and beyond Confirmation Prep: at a public park * Distributing gifts and should consider service opportunities Society of St. Vincent de Paul; SVDP Youth cleaning at church toy drive * Helping Group; Commons Community Service Team parents without access to technology get that fit their interests and schedules. signed up for programs on a school website * and Green Team; Respect Life Committee; What will you do? How will you Raking leaves and doing garden work for serve? Ministers of Care (visit hospitals and the elderly neighbors * Assisting with face- homebound); SPRED Ministry (Special painting at neighborhood festivals * Walking - Parents - Religious Development for people with in a 5k to raise funds for diabetes research * know the Candidates’ interests and developmental disabilities; Boy Scouts & Making repairs, cleaning and setting up schedules. Parents should reach out Girl Scouts. furniture in church buildings * Selling tickets In previous years, students in our and food at a school fundraising event * to their friends Confirmation program did service helping Assisting basketball team of younger children and contacts in the community to those in our parish and the broader at practices * Walking in and preparing find community, including: posters for a Peace March * Making charity other places where Candidates can items for Queen of Angels Santa Shoppe * Serving breakfast to and playing games with serve. Assisting a teacher after school * low-income seniors at Lidia Pucinska Senior Volunteering at or setting up for the Holiday - Sponsors & Parents - Apartments * Decorating, cleaning, selling Craft Fair, Market Day, Thanksgiving Food tickets and serving food at a church party * Drive, Harvest Jam, book fair and other may consider accompanying Sorting donated items and helping children Queen of Angels events Candidates make fleece blankets for new immigrant on some of their service projects. families helped by Exodus * Preparing food What do you want to do? How will Serve alongside them and teach for and volunteering at Our Lady of Lourdes you serve? Soup Kitchen and the Thanksgiving dinners at by example. St. Benedict, Ravenswood Presbyterian * UPATED NOVEMBER 2014 * Activities listed inside this brochure are Church, and Urban Vineyard Church * planned by the parish and other groups we Making and packing PB&J sandwiches for the Queen of Angels Parish homeless at St. Teresa Loaves & Fishes * work with in our neighborhood. However, Soliciting and collecting donations of warm Confirmation Preparation candidates and their families are winter gear for the Night Ministry to homeless strongly encouraged to find other ways teens and young adults * Cooking and 2014 - 2015 of doing service beyond those listed serving meals for the Night Ministry * inside this brochure. Some additional Visiting with and helping blind adults make ideas are on the back of the brochure. arts and crafts * Tutoring and playing with younger children in after-school care program Choose your service projects * Selling treats at movie night to raise funds for the homeless * Sorting, packing and and commit loading books donated to a new library in to them. Call or e-mail to ask Botswana * Free babysitting for a family in questions need * Helping and cheering for disabled basketball team at Misericordia Home * Our Lady of Lourdes Soup Kitchen, Wednesdays, October 1 and November 5, 4640 N. Ashland PB & J Sandwich-Making. Make Prepare and serve a meal for the poor. peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches for Rooted in the Parishioner contact: Teen groups Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen at St. Corporal Works of Mercy: organized by Tom Donnelly, Teresa of Avila. [email protected] Saturday, October 25, Market Day. Site contact: 773-561-2141 + Feed the hungry + Unload food and set up for a parish + Shelter the homeless + 1st, 3rd & 5th Thursdays of each month, 5 - fundraiser. + Clothe the naked + 6 p.m. Albany Park Community Center, 5101 NOVEMBER + Visit the sick and the imprisoned + N. Kimball + Bury the dead + Sort and pack up food for a local food Saturday, November 15, 8 -10 a.m. + Give alms to the poor + pantry. Market Day, Lower Voss, 4412 N Youth under 16 must be accompanied by Western (Matthew 25:34-40) a parent. Unload food and set up for a parish Parishioner contact: Lisa Krappman, fundraiser. Ms. Rachel Hohner, Coordinator [email protected] or 773-442-8747 Contact: Nancy Baer, 773-539-7510 or [email protected] Queen of Angels Parish Site contact: 773-509-5657 Religious Education Office 1st, 2nd & 3rd Fridays of each month, 4:30 - Friday-Saturday, November 21-22 4520 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60625 6:30 p.m. Holiday Craft Fair, Guild Hall, 4416 N. (773) 539 -7510 or (773) 769-4211 ext. 215 Western [email protected] Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen, St. Teresa of Avila Parish, 1037 W. Set up, clean up, or volunteer at a parish Armitage in Lincoln Park fundraiser. * UPATED NOVEMBER 2014 * Prepare and serve meals for the Please ask before counting 8th homeless and elderly. Grade class trip fundraising Select Service Opportunities Parishioner contact: Kathy Mortell, toward service hours. for Confirmation Candidates 773-616-1958 or [email protected] Contact: Melanee Schoendorff, Site contact: Tom Micinski, 773-528-6650 [email protected] as of November 10, 2014 ext. 12 or Sunday, November 23, 8 a.m - 12 noon [email protected] Don’t see any opportunities that fit SSVD Thanksgiving Food Drive, your interests? Queen of Angels Church Basement, Find out where help is needed in your PAST EVENTS 2330 W. Sunnyside Sorting and packing food with the Society neighborhood! Friday-Saturday, September 19-20, of Saint. Vincent de Paul for those in Look for similar projects and ask a Harvest Jam. Set up, clean up, helping catechist if unsure. need in our area. Meet teens involved with activities for younger children at a in the SVDP Youth Group. parish fundraiser. Please ask before Youth may help with sorting and packing EVERY MONTH counting 8th Grade class trip and assist patrons in picking out their fundraising.  Each Wednesday, approximately 5 – 7 food. p.m. Parishioner/site contact: SVDP Youth Set up and serve a Christmas feast for Group, [email protected], or seniors & families in need. call the parish office at 773-539-7510 New Contact: Elizabeth Kustusch, St. Benedict Parish Office, 773-588-6484 Wednesday, Novermber 26, evening, and for details. Thursday, November 27, midday Thanksgiving Meal at St. Benedict Documentation for at least 10 Social Center, 2219 W. Irving Park hours of Christian service is Road Set up (Wednesday) and serve a due at the first Confirmation Thanksgiving feast (Thursday) to class in January 2015: seniors & families in need. Monday, Jan. 5 or Thursday, New Contact: Elizabeth Kustusch, St. Jan. 8. Benedict Parish Office, 773-588-6484 Do as much direct service as for details.  possible! DECEMBER You have many gifts and Date & Time TBD talents. Use them! Packing Items for Santa Shoppe This means you get to see Jesus in Make items to be sold to benefit local charities. the Contact: Melanee Schoendorff, faces of the people you are [email protected] helping. * volunteer at a soup kitchen or Wednesday, December 3, 3:45 -5 p.m. holiday meal* PB & J Sandwich-Making, Queen of * play BINGO or board games with Angels School Lunchroom, 4520 N. Western seniors * Make peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches * do yard work for a sick neighbor * for Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen at * help people with computer St. Teresa of Avila. troubles * Contact: Grace Castillo, * shovel snow for an elderly [email protected] neighbor * Saturday, December 20, 8 -10 a.m. * offer free babysitting to a family in Market Day, Lower Voss, 4412 N need * Western See description on November 15 date. Wednesday, December 25, midday Christmas Day Meal at St. Benedict Social Center, 2219 W. Irving Park Road