VOLUNTEER FOR OUTREACH

Saturday, April 26
6:30 am | Tomes Higgins House

Volunteer to feed 80 unsheltered New York City residents.  Meet at the Tomes Higgins House at 6:30 am and leave at 8:00 am to caravan into Manhattan to deliver the food. 

Due to rising egg prices, we need your help to provide 1,500 dozen eggs for food-insecure families. Please buy eggs online here from March 16 - May 1, to be delivered directly to the Neighbor to Neighbor food pantry. Thank you to the Christ Church Outreach Committee for organizing this drive.

May 15 - June 14

Donate new or gently used clean summer clothes (shorts, slacks, shirts, light jackets, dresses, shoes, sweatshirts) for babies, kids and adults. Please drop off in the bins to be provided in the hall outside the Parish Office. Donations will go to Liberation Programs

Service provider to 3,000 women, men, families who are currently homeless or in risk of losing their homes, helping them achieve and maintain housing and overall stability in their lives.

Volunteer opportunities: providing monthly meals to women, activities for children.

Men’s shelter in Stamford long associated with Christ Church, which provides financial and other support.

Volunteer opportunities: providing meals and decorating for the holidays

Provider of substance abuse rehabilitation services in residential setting for women and children, as well as in another venue for men.

Volunteer opportunities: Winter and summer clothing drives, activities with residents and their families

Organization which delivers food, clothing, toiletries to NYC homeless in two – four morning and evening runs each year

Volunteer opportunities: clothing distribution, assembling toiletry bags, preparing meals

Organization long associated with Christ Church, which provides food and household supplies to 400+ local families. The facility is housed behind the Tomes-Higgins House.

Volunteer opportunities: working shifts during client shopping hours, acquiring items

Hands on event to provide a designated agency with food to distribute to the hungry globally. It is held in the Parish Hall in early autumn (two hours).

Volunteer opportunities: Measuring, sorting food into packages for partner agency to distribute.

Event held in Parish Hall in November to provide a special meal for family clients of Neighbor to Neighbor.

Volunteer opportunities: set up, decorating, meal preparation assistance

Organization housed in Norwalk, which provides weekend and vacation meals to 7,000 food insecure children in Fairfield and Westchester counties.

Volunteer opportunities: participating in packing events held at FITB’s warehouse, which take place multiple times per year. Dates for the events will be communicated, as they come up throughout the year.

Christian based residential house and program in Bridgeport, for men in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse

Volunteer opportunities: Sharing meals and sports watching with the residents, providing gifts for those who are fathers to give to their children at Christmas.

Since 1988 Christ Church Greenwich has had a long-standing relationship with the Diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro (DMK) in Tanzania, East Africa. Through that connection Endupoto Primary School was “born”.

Volunteer opportunities: Participating in annual parishioner school visit, to work with leadership to fulfill their needs

San Marcos Parish (headed by Father Gil) supported by Christ Church and the Episcopal diocese.

Volunteer opportunities: participating in a visit to bring supplies; help plan Father Gil’s trip to Christ Church