VOLUNTEER FOR OUTREACH

Now through December 15
Glass Hallway & Chapel Foyer

Choose gift options from a variety of tags on the trees: toys, clothing, gifts, gift cards, basic supplies, as requested by the clients (and their children) of Neighbor to Neighbor, Head Start, Inspirica,  and Liberation House.  Please deliver each gift, unwrapped, with your specific gift tag attached to the Parish Office by Dec 15.
Co-sponsored by Children’s Ministries and Outreach.

December 13 & 14 | Parish Hall

Christ Church has donated the use of the Parish Hall for Family Center’s annual Toy Chest event, which enables its clients to shop for free toys for their children.  There is an opportunity for volunteers to work at the sale, which takes place on December 14, or to help with set up the afternoon of the day before, December 13.

Friday, January 10 
8:00 pm – Midnight

This first effort to support the NYC homeless with food, clothing, blankets and toiletries is particularly critical in the winter months.  Please consider helping prep for the run at 4:00 pm in the Tomes Higgins House by sorting donated clothes, filling toiletry bags, and making bagged lunches and/or caravaning with a team into the city to interact with and deliver the supplies to people living on the street. 

Saturday, March 29
9:30 – 11:30 am

Event at this Norwalk based organization focuses on packing of non-perishable food items to provide food insecure children with supplies for weekend and school vacations. Location: ​346 Main Ave., Suite 3A  Norwalk, CT. 06851

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