Just wonder how many others on this board have volunteering in their blood like I do, especially the last 2 years plus that I've been retired.
Tue and Thu I leave home at 6:30 to walk 1.5 mi to the local food kitchen, help prepare and serve breakfast to 100 to 120 people, the local homeless/indigent. On Thursdays, I also stay to administer the clothing give away. Then walk 1.5 mi back home, while the later folk volunteering there wonder why I'm leaving early and I was there 2 hours earlier than them, haha. Also, I'm known as a major stickler that if I am serving or helping you, gotta be wearing your mask properly, no mask on, get one and put it on correctly, then I am very gracious.
On Wed I am a Eucharistic Minister at mass in the morning, and back in the afternoon with St Vincent dePaul Society to assist the church outreach to the homeless/indigent/needy. Also one extra day a month, we have a food give away of fresh fruit and vegetable, canned/boxed goods, etc.
Sundays, my wife and I assist as Liturgy Hosts at 7 am mass, show up by 6:15 to help with setup and making sure all are seated by Covid protocol guidelines as directed by the state and diocese. Basically, masks, seating in every other pew, no more than 8 to a pew, and possible 3 singles at each end in the middle. Assisting with procession to communion and exiting, everyone comes in one door, but we exit out each side of church.
Not ironically, a guy at the food kitchen, stopped me today to ask about the SVDP at the church, I assured him all was good, as I was the last to help him last Wed,
If I wasn't doing this volunteering, my wife would go crazy, as she is working from home, and it gives her relief from my being in the house all day everyday.
Also, Friday most typically reserved for golf and Monday is all my projects around the house.
Tue and Thu I leave home at 6:30 to walk 1.5 mi to the local food kitchen, help prepare and serve breakfast to 100 to 120 people, the local homeless/indigent. On Thursdays, I also stay to administer the clothing give away. Then walk 1.5 mi back home, while the later folk volunteering there wonder why I'm leaving early and I was there 2 hours earlier than them, haha. Also, I'm known as a major stickler that if I am serving or helping you, gotta be wearing your mask properly, no mask on, get one and put it on correctly, then I am very gracious.
On Wed I am a Eucharistic Minister at mass in the morning, and back in the afternoon with St Vincent dePaul Society to assist the church outreach to the homeless/indigent/needy. Also one extra day a month, we have a food give away of fresh fruit and vegetable, canned/boxed goods, etc.
Sundays, my wife and I assist as Liturgy Hosts at 7 am mass, show up by 6:15 to help with setup and making sure all are seated by Covid protocol guidelines as directed by the state and diocese. Basically, masks, seating in every other pew, no more than 8 to a pew, and possible 3 singles at each end in the middle. Assisting with procession to communion and exiting, everyone comes in one door, but we exit out each side of church.
Not ironically, a guy at the food kitchen, stopped me today to ask about the SVDP at the church, I assured him all was good, as I was the last to help him last Wed,
If I wasn't doing this volunteering, my wife would go crazy, as she is working from home, and it gives her relief from my being in the house all day everyday.
Also, Friday most typically reserved for golf and Monday is all my projects around the house.
