AIDS Care Team
Support HIV-positive people needing friendship and care. Weekly visits are scheduled, and volunteers help with transportation, shopping or other needs to help keep people home for care. Call or email Colette Bean at 919.489.2644.

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Caring and Sharing Center
A center to receive and to share household and seasonal clothing items with our NEEDY poor in Orange and surrounding counties. Many volunteers are needed to help with welcoming our guests and sorting items. Call or email Alice Kessing at 919.942.6263.

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Catholic Charities
Offers counseling for individuals, couples and families. Family Life programs and financial assistance are available. Support is provided for the poor from all communities, Spanish-speaking and English. Call or email Barbara Stickford at 919.932.3544.

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Community Involvement Committee
Members meet monthly to discuss and plan ways to promote and exercise Catholic social teaching within our parish and in the community. Call or email Tish Galu at 919.960.4437.

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Habitat for Humanity
Provides adequate and affordable housing for working poor. Volunteers work rotating schedule at a home site, other volunteers prepare and supply lunch for workers. Call or email Linda Heffernan at 942-6862 or Susan Doyle at 919.933.3291.

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Hospital Visitation
Members visit and bring the Eucharist to Catholics who are in UNC and Duke Hospitals and wish to receive Communion. Call or email Anneke Jakes at 919.542.1548 or Shelia Flannery at 919.542.5460 or Theresa Keller at 919.942.6230.

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IFC Community Kitchen
An IFC program that serves the poor and needy, cooking groups plan, prepare and serve meals. Volunteers work twice a month 6:00-7:45 a.m., twice a month 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., and once a month 4:00-6:30 p.m. You are welcome on a one-time basis. Contact Wesley Norwood, 919.967.0643, Kristin Lavergne, 919.929.6380 or call or email Coordinator at 919.967.0643 ext. 15.

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IFC Men's and Women's Shelters' Volunteers
To assist the InterFaith Council for Social Services by providing trained volunteers to serve as receptionists and staff assistants at the Community House Men's Shelter on Rosemary Street and receptionists at the HomeStart Women & Children’s shelter in Chapel Hill. Call or email Kathy Kearns at 919.932.9705 or Jane Hathaway at 919.405.2111.

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IFC Crisis Intervention
Members from local churches provide leadership and staff to address issues and problems of needy in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Volunteers interview and assist IFC clients, work in community kitchen and shelter. Call or email Kristin Lavergne at 919.929.6380 or Barbara Stickford at 919.932.3544.

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Latino Health Fair
An annual event providing free health screening and information, targeting the area’s Spanish speaking population. Committee volunteers are needed to coordinate agencies, publicity, food and entertainment. Committee meets approximately five times a year. Translators, set-up and clean-up volunteers needed the day of the Fair. Contact Kathy Roundtree.

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Meals on Wheels
Volunteers pick up meals prepared by a food service and deliver these to clients in their homes. Drivers, substitute drivers and baked goods always needed. Call or email Stacey Yusko at 919.929.9752.

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Migrant Worker Outreach
Assembles care kits for migrant workers during the summer months using parishioner donations. Volunteers are needed in June, July and August only. Call or email Ginnie Mergner at 919.942.3755.

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Pregnancy Support Services
An inter-denominational Christian group providing support and service to young women in crisis-pregnancy situations. Services are free, confidential and available to anyone in need. Volunteer opportunities as counselors, receptionists or clothing closet organizers are available. Call Mimi Every, Director, PSS Chapel Hill, 919.942.7318 or PSS Durham, 919.490.0203.

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Project HomeStart
Parishioners provide dinner for approximately 20 women and children who are homeless and temporarily living at the shelter. Working in teams, we are able to provide meals 5 nights each month. Teams can prepare the meal at home and deliver it or prepare the meal right at the shelter. It’s a good way to involve children. Call or email Julie Bauers at 919.967.2534.

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Refugee Resettlement
Members provide refugees emigrating to the U. S. with financial, housing, service agency and other informational assistance. Seeking new leadership. Call or email Tish Galu at 919.960.4437.

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Respect Life Committee
Ministry currently seeking leadership to serve our parish with educational activities regarding life issues. Call or email Maureen Earnhardt at 919.967.3253.

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Sick and Shut-Ins
STM members provide assistance and/or Eucharist for our sick and shut-in parishioners. Call or email Joanne Caye at 919.933.9883 or Chantal Shafroth at 919.929.5428 or Theresa Keller at 919.942.6230.

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Social Justice
Call or email Tish Galu at 919.960.4437.

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