Looking for opportunities for Christian Service? Serve the community by donating time or talent for the betterment of God's creation. Specific Parish and Community needs are listed below. General needs by organizations needing volunteers are listed here or by clicking the icon at left.
** Opportunities in the Parish **
Come and Help the Parish: Volunteers Needed for 2009-2010 RE
Please let Jay Cuasay or Harvesta Greene-Williams know if you are available to help support the Religious Education program as a Catechist, Hall Monitor, Office Aide, etc. Please call and let them know your interests and availability.
NOTE: ALL Volunteers must complete the Virtus Training Program (our Diocesan Safe Children Program) and submit to a Criminal Background Check.
Questions about registration & volunteering: call 703-430-0811 and speak to Harvesta Greene Williams, DRE (K-6), ext. 14, or Jay Cuasay, DRE (7-12), ext. 12.
Additional Help Needed!
With Adult Faith Formation…
Would you like to help an adult or family with members interested in becoming Catholic? Come enrich your adult faith life by joining a Christian Initiation Team as a faith sharer or sponsor.
With Family Sacramental Preparation…
Would you like to help as an assistant during sacramental preparation meetings with parents during the year? English/Spanish speakers are especially needed.
Please Call Jay Cuasay, DRE at 703-430-0811 ext. 12
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WorkCamp 2010 Adult Volunteers Needed
For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers. (1 Timothy 4:10) If you are 25 or older, love to work with motivated teens, are willing to spend a week with them as an adult crew leader, as they help our brothers and sisters in need, in the Winchester, VA area from Saturday June 26th through Friday July 2nd, here's your opportunity to serve! If you have the skill and experience to do home projects and can share your expertise with teens and adults with on-site overseeing of projects from Monday June 28th through Thursday July 1st, as they share their hearts, hands and sweat to build a wheelchair ramp, repair a roof, or other very necessary projects to help, here's your opportunity to serve. If you can serve, please say YES! to these opportunities. See Sue or Lew in Atonement Hall after all Masses this weekend or you can contact Sue Hinko at 703-435-1343 or use this email for more information.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Are you looking for an opportunity to grow in your own faith and extend that gift to others through your personal witness and service to the church? We invite you to become a docent or receptionist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Hours and days are flexible and training will be provided. We offer community service hours to High School juniors and seniors who participate in this program. We also need volunteer nurses or doctors to assist at large events at the Shrine. Anyone interested please contact Sister Miriam, R.S.M. at the Basilica 202-526-8300, ext 111 or at this email address.
Eucharistic Ministers Needed
The diocesan training and formation of Eucharistic Ministers will take place here at CTR at a workshop on Saturday, May 15th, from 10:00 am until 12:00 Noon. At this time we ask that you contemplate serving in this important ministry. If you wish to be considered, call the parish office 703-430-0811.
Altar Servers Needed
Any boy or girl, 4th grade and up, with interest in serving at the altar, please call Herb DuVall at 703-421-3461 (or use Herb's email here) or Gail Dowling at 703-421-7499 (or use Gail's email here).
Nurses Needed
Our Parish Nurses are in need of two volunteers to help with our blood pressure screenings on the first Sunday of the month. We need 45 minutes of your time after either the 9:00 am or the 10:30 am Mass. Please call Mary Boyle at 571-223-2005 for more information or to volunteer.
Volunteers Needed for Catholic Charities Office
Catholic Charities offices in Leesburg and Sterling need volunteers to staff the office between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm on weekdays. At these sites, Catholic Charities offers family counseling, children’s services, information and referral and limited financial emergency assistance. Training is provided. Contact Sally O’Dwyer at 703-841-3838 (or use this email) to find out more about this exciting and new opportunity.
Citizenship Exam Preparation Classes
If you have applied for citizenship or are thinking of applying you will need to study the 100 civics questions and practice your English. Hogar Immigrant Services offers a class here at Christ the Redeemer 3 times a week – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Registration is open and the cost is $40 per student. Please call 703-534-9805 ext. 249 for more information.
CTR's 2nd Blood Drive of 2010
What better way to "love thy neighbor" than to give someone the gift of life—a blood donation. Our second blood drive of 2010 will be on Saturday, April 24, 7:00 am - 12:30 pm in Atonement Hall. Donors can sign up after Mass on the weekends of April 10-11 and April 17-18. Or, you can now go online to make your own appointment. Go to this Inova Blood Donation Services Website, and just enter your name at an available time slot to make your appointment.
(16 year olds may now donate if they have a parent or guardian sign a permission slip (available at sign-up). This CTR website has information on eligibility requirements (en Español), parental consent (form for those donors age 16), and foods that are rich in iron.)
Have any questions about your eligibility to donate? Please see this webpage for more details, or, if you need still more information about the blood drive itself, or using the Internet to schedule your next donation, or would like to help with the blood drive, please contact Michele Hawes at 703-444-5136, or use this email.
(For more information about the INOVA blood donor program, please go to this INOVA Blood Donor Website.)
Hey Buddy -- Can You Spare a Pint?
There is an urgent need for volunteers to donate a pint of blood every two or three months to keep one of our young parishioners alive and healthy. Please call Hank Becker at 703-771-0238 for details on how to get started on this most needed and rewarding form of volunteering.
Continuing Blood Drive
If you miss our church drives and would like to donate at the INOVA Blood Center on Nokes Blvd. (or any other INOVA Blood Center), just give the CTR code #0025 to the receptionist, and your donation will be credited to us and count toward our year end goal.
Blood Drive Dates of 2010
April 24
August 7
December 4
The Nursery Co-Op Needs You!!
Do you have children between the ages of 1 to 5 and attend the 10:30 am mass? Commitment to the co-op involves watching the children in the nursery for one mass during each rotation plus attending a Virtus training. We invite you to stop by the nursery during the 10:30 am mass to check us out and learn more. For more information or to join, please contact Lizette Andreyko at 703-404-9428 or by email. Be aware that beginning in March, the co-op nursery will only be open on the first and third Sundays of every month at the 10:30 am mass, unless it falls on a holiday.
** Opportunities in the Community **
Volunteers Needed to Help Serve Meals
On the second Saturday of each month, parishioners prepare meals to feed needy people in Sterling and Leesburg. We are in need of three people who would be willing to go along in the canteen truck to serve the meals. We are looking for a one time commitment, but you could volunteer for additional times if you want.
+ Volunteers need to be at the kitchen at Christ the Redeemer by 3:00 pm on the second Saturday of the month.
+ From CTR they would go to the three meal pick-up areas.
+ At those pick-up areas, the meals would be dished from the cambros into individual containers for the people to take to their homes.
+ After the last stop, the canteen truck would be returned to the Salvation Army office in Leesburg, quickly cleaned and the group would return to CTR.
You would be back at CTR by 7:00 pm. This is a great community service project if you are a confirmation student scheduled to be confirmed during the Fall of 2010. One of your parents would need to volunteer and accompany you during your service. We need three servers each time, so this would be an ideal family project. For more information contact Fr. Art at 703-430-0811 ext. 16.
Looking for a Way to Give Back?
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington invites retirees, semi-retirees, and seniors to donate time and talent to serve others. The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) helps you match your interests and availability with the needs of the community. Opportunities exist within Catholic Charities and across a wide-range of other non-profit organizations and functions. Consider: teaching English as a second language to immigrants; sustaining those in economic crisis; ministering to the imprisoned; serving the elderly; mentoring the unemployed and the financially troubled; and, much, much more! Pursue your passion in a flexible environment. Volunteer for the time and activities that best fits into your schedule. Information is available on the credenza in the Commons Area or contact Bill Kelly at this email address or at 703-841-3831.
Donations Needed
The Diocesan Office of Migration and Refugee Services works in our Diocese to help "Welcome the Stranger" (documented refugees/asylees). The office is currently in need of donations of dressers, beds, metal bed frames, sheets, lamps, alarm clocks, pots & pans, teapots, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, TV’s and converter boxes, DVD players, microwave ovens, and used cars. All items must be in good condition/working order. We are also in need of new pillows, mops, brooms, wastebaskets, baby diapers, and formula. Tax receipt will be provided for all donations. Please e-mail Kira or call her at 703-841-3870.
Hospice Volunteers Needed
Hospice visiting volunteers are needed to read to or chat with patients who often have little contact with the world outside of their bed. For details please contact Jen Jackson, Volunteer Coordinator, Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care at 703-788-1768.
Transportation Ministry Volunteers Needed
The Transportation Ministry is in urgent NEED of volunteers. Our ministry was formed to assist parish families that had extraordinary transportation requirements (such as daily trips to the hospital for chemotherapy, etc.). Since our formation, we have taken on transportation requirements for someone that is on dialysis. This means there are six trips a week that must be covered. Some of our regular volunteers will be on vacation so we need your help to guarantee transportation to our parishioners that depend on us. If you are interested in volunteering to drive someone to and/or from a doctor’s appointment, hospital, dialysis, etc., we sure could use your help. Please contact Jeanne Spofford at 703-444-1065 or use her email here. Also, if you need someone in your family taken to chemotherapy, radiation, special medical appointments, please contact us. Thank you and God Bless you.
LINK Food Delivery in March
Each year CTR volunteers generously give of their time and talent to help others in need of food. Volunteers are needed in the month of March to deliver food to the homes of LINK food recipients in the Herndon, Sterling and Ashburn areas. Food is packed by volunteers and picked up at the LINK Food Pantry on Dranesville Road. Deliveries are normally made in the evenings or on Saturday. Sign up will be at all the Masses this weekend, February 21st and next weekend, February 28th, in Atonement Hall. Please contact Diane Sieb at 703-948-0092 for more information or if you would like to help.
Boys/Girls Club Volunteers Needed
The Boys and Girls Clubs at Sterling Middle school need volunteers to assist with homework time, sports, and arts and crafts. The clubs are in operation from 3:30 - 8:00 p.m. and volunteers for any part of that time would be helpful. Please call Peg Schrader for more information at 703-444-4581.
Prison Ministries
The Catholic Charities Prison Ministry program is seeking men and women to care for prisoners through letter writing, collecting items approved for distribution in jails, and help with after-care programs. Contact Sr. Connie at 703-841-3832, or use this email, to find out how you can help.
Need Help to Feed the Hungry
Parishioners as well as members of other area churches regularly pick up bakery products donated by local merchants and deliver them to the LINK pantry, homeless shelters, senior complexes, and other locations. The drivers pick up food that would otherwise be thrown away and deliver it to the hungry in the area. We need volunteers to pick up and deliver on Monday and Friday mornings and Thursday evenings. Please contact Bob Ashdown at 703-437-7786 or use Bob's email here for more information or to volunteer to help.
Sandwich and Hot Lunch Ministry
Five CTR teams are making and delivering sandwiches to the site where workers gather in Herndon. These teams are operating as they did prior to the closing of the Center but are now delivering to an informal site. Additionally, Bob Ashdown is coordinating the hot lunch program for people taking ESL classes through Reston Interfaith four days a week. If you are interested in being part of the solution of feeding the hungry in Herndon, please contact Bob at 703-437-7786 or use Bob's email here.
Volunteer Opportunity to Aid Children
Loudoun Families for Children, a private, non-profit organization providing emergency/respite care and mentoring to children in need, is currently seeking families/adults interested in volunteering. Children accepted for respite/emergency care may spend from an hour to a maximum of 21 days in an LFC home. Mentoring involves regular contact with a child (approximately) twice per month for a period of one year. For more information, contact Kim Burk at 703-771-9505 or use Kim's email here.
Hearing a Call to Visit the Sick?
INOVA Loudoun Hospital is looking for adults to volunteer within its Chaplaincy Services department. Their mission is to visit patients and help them draw upon their own spiritual resources in order to cope with their experience of illness. Volunteers are expected to attend a 14-week training program and commit several hours per week for one year visiting patients. The training program, now in its third year, offers mature adults an opportunity to develop personal and professional skills necessary to offer effective pastoral care in the healthcare setting. For more information, please contact Chaplain Tom Chirdo at 703 858 8034 or use Tom's email here.
ESL Volunteer Opportunities
Catholic Charities-Hogar Immigrant Services is currently seeking volunteer ESL (English as a Second Language) teachers for classes at Christ the Redeemer. The session starts on January 26th with classes every Tuesday and Thursday. Teachers teach just one evening per week. Training and materials are provided. No previous experience or second language required! If interested, please contact Sheila Sullivan at her email address or call at 703-534-9805 x238.
Catholic Advocacy
Our bishops tell us that "responsible citizenship is a virtue; participation in the political process is a moral obligation." You can add your Catholic values to the political dialogue by becoming better informed about issues and expressing your views to your elected officials. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Relief Services, and the Virginia Catholic Conference, among others, provide information about legislative issues of importance to Catholics. If you would like to more actively participate in the political process, please contact Bob Ashdown, our parish liaison with Catholic Charities, at 703-437-7786 or email him here.
