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Alzheimer Association
The Alzheimer’s Association is a voluntary organization dedicated to research for the causes, cure, and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and to providing education and support services to Alzheimer’s patients, their families and caregivers. Volunteers are needed to answer the phone and do light clerical filing.
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American Red Cross Bloodmobile
Giving blood is giving the gift of life. St. Matthew’s participates in the St. Matthew’s Area Ministry Bloodmobile. Once a year the Bloodmobile comes to St. Matthew’s. At other designated times the Bloodmobile will be at one of the other participating churches.
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Cornerstone
Cornerstone is a
Christ Church Cathedral Outreach Program involving Home of The
Innocents Teen Parenting. The group meets every Thursday evening
from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for a shared meal, counseling
services and skill building sessions. Christ Church Cathedral
provides meeting space, a dining area for dinner and a child
care area for participants’ children.On a rotating basis, volunteers from several local churches prepare dinner and provide child care. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church provides meals and child care on the first Thursday of each month. This volunteer service is essential to the success of Cornerstone Project. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church has contributed many hours of child care and prepared meals for Cornerstone. Your support, dedication and interest, is deeply appreciated and has contributed to the success of many single parents in the Louisville community. |
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Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) are volunteers trained by the Jefferson County Courts to act as independent advocates for abused, dependent, or neglected children. During the holidays, there are also opportunities to adopt a family and provide gifts for the children and adults in that family.
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Episcopal Church Home
The Episcopal Church Home offers volunteer opportunities for enriching the lives of residents through visits, craft and/or game assistance and the like and opportunities to serve on the Women’s Board of the Home.
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Food Pantry
Food is collected at St. Matthew’s and distributed by St. George’s and Calvary Episcopal churches. This cooperative ministry enables St. Matthew’s to play a vital role in feeding the hungry in our community. To participate in this ministry, you may bring non-perishable food items and place them in the St. Matthew’s “food basket.” Though you can bring items at any time, we place the basket in a more prominent place on the first Sunday of the Month—a gentle reminder to take part in this important ministry.
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Habitat for Humanity
September of 1998, as we celebrated our 50th anniversary, we made a commitment to help the homeless. As part of our celebration, we took on the challenge of working with Habitat for Humanity to build a house. We raised $19,000, spent a weekend in March of 1999 raising the walls, and continued with workdays throughout the spring and summer. The house was dedicated on Saturday, September 18 – a very appropriate date, since it is the day before St. Matthew’s Day, and so completes the year perfectly. Habitat for Humanity volunteers from St. Matthew’s work on the first Saturday of each month at a local Habitat building site. |
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The Norton Hospital
 http://www.nortonhealthcare.com/careers/volunteering/index.aspx The Norton Hospital volunteer opportunities vary from delivering mail to patients to working in the Gift Shop. |
Prison Ministry http://www.pfm.org “ ...I was in prison and you visited me” Matthew 25:36 The Prison Ministry provides an opportunity for couples or women to visit and work with women at the Kentucky Correctional Institute in Pewee Valley. Opportunities include Bible Study, tutoring, Girl Scouts, one-on-one visiting, craft classes and more. One-on-one volunteers are paired with a particular resident who has requested visitors. |
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Saint George's Community Center
St. George’s provides tutoring and has computer resource stations to aid in the tutoring task. Volunteers help students with homework weekly. The sponsor a boys basketball team busy and a martial arts program. It also sponsors teen pregnancy workshops.
Music lessons are provided. Senior citizens from St. George’s Church and the neighborhood meet weekly in writing and poetry groups. The Seniors are also raising funds to purchase a new van for the center. Volunteer help is important to the vitality of these programs. If you can help, please contact St. George’s Community Center (775-6232). |
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St. Johns Day Center for the Homeless
St. John’s Day Center for the Homeless uses volunteers to greet visitors, hand out supplies and just visit with the homeless who come to the center.
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St. Matthews Area Ministries
St. Matthews Area Ministries utilizes community resources to provide meaningful, innovative responses to the needs of families and individuals. The organization is governed by a board composed of representatives from 13 member churches in the St. Matthew’s community. To participate on the board or to volunteer, contact the
Parish Coordinator.
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Seamen's Ministry
The Seamen’s Church Institute, which has ministered to merchant seamen since 1834, began a new ministry on the Ohio River in 1998, serving inland mariners. The Rev. Jim Wilkinson, an Episcopal priest, is serving as chaplain. The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson’s office is in the Diocesan House at Christ Church Cathedral. Mariners, who work on the river, work six hours on, six hours off, continually, for twenty-eight days at a stretch. The towboat stops only to negotiate a lock, to configure a tow of barges or to allow safe passage of another vessel. The noise of the engines is virtually ever present. Unless fog-bound, dry land is always in sight, yet crewmembers may go weeks at a time without touching shore. Many of us have watched the river barges with interest over the years. Now we have a chance to help.
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Survivors of Suicide
In
1985, the Social Concerns Committee approved the formation of a
new support group for the family and friends of persons who have
committed suicide. SOS provides support to persons whose lives
have been touched by suicide and a safe place for survivors to
work through their grief by sharing with others who have also
lost a loved one.
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University of Louisville Interfaith Center Lunch Program
The University of Louisville Interfaith Center Lunch Program provides free lunches to students at U of L every Monday. St. Matthew’s prepares and serves lunch once each semester. To help cook or serve lunch, contact the
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The purpose of the Wayside Christian Ministry is to respond to human needs of the poor and homeless: (1) by providing temporary housing/shelter, food, clothing, nurturing, and spiritual enrichment, encouragement and referral; and (2) provide support, services and skills that would permit and encourage the return to a state of self-sufficiency so that human dignity can be restored and the love of God can be shared.
Dedicated parishioners and clergy of St. Matthew’s have served in the Wayside Christian Soup Ministry each second Sunday of the month. This date was chosen at the request of Wayside. Bulletin board sign-ups at the church average between 14 and 22 each month. Don’t let numbers discourage you from signing up because often several people have to cancel for various reasons.
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