Ongoing Opportunities

Merciful HELP Center Choice Food Pantry 

There are MANY wonderful opportunities at the Choice Food Pantry!

Pantry Stockers: Stock the Merciful HELP Center Choice Food Pantry in the afternoons on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Shoppers: Helps MHC guests make selections of various food items, toiletries, and paper products throughout the pantry. Choice Food Pantry training is required, please click here to sign up. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e4aada82fa31-next2

Runners: Take client requests, prepare carts and gather frozen and fresh foods as requested by the guests. Again, we require training before performing this volunteer task.

Teen Helpers: Help load grocery orders into a guest's vehicle, help guests make bread and/or produce selections, clean and/or discarding trash. You may volunteer once a year or once a week by clicking the sign-up genius below and showing up for the shift you selected.

Interpreter: We serve people of all nationalities and 2nd and 3rd languages skills are very welcome! Training is necessary for an individual to know our parameters and guidelines.

Stockers: Volunteers serve to stock the shelves between openings of the choice food pantry.

Green Bag Sunday Volunteers: Either man a door to hand out bags to willing donators, or come and organize donations as they come in twice per year.

Food Pick-up Volunteers: We rescue from local stores, schools, farms, restaurants and pick up from shops and stores that have taken donations for us! We use every bit of what is rescued to feed our neighbors in our community!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR MHC CHOICE PANTRY LEADERSHIP?

Team Leader during Choice Food Pantry Operation: This special individual keeps things running smoothly in the warehouse as people shop with guests and runners and teens gather meats and load cars. They are essential to the operation of the food pantry.

Inventory Team Leader: This leader leads energetic volunteers as they stock the pantry from our storage areas onto the shelves. This is a great exercise for people that like to do a little physical work.

Receptionist: These special people check families in on the computer, update their information, make visits and take requests for other things families might need help with. This requires some training, and we ask that people have worked in the pantry for several months before training in this position. It is important to have a  working knowledge of the pantry to perform this role.

SPECIAL NOTE TO TRAINED VOLUNTEERS REGARDING BRINGING YOUNG CHILDREN ALONG WITH YOU TO VOLUNTEER:
Trained volunteers may bring ONE child ages 8 to 11 to help. One child per adult only.

Jr. High and High School Students ages 12 - 17 years and older may volunteer alone.

• 6 Jr. High and High School Students may sign up on the sign-up genius every Saturday morning, to work from 8:45 AM -  11:45 AM
• 3 Jr. High and High School Students may sign up on the sign-up genius every Tuesday evening to work from 4:45 PM - 7:00 PM, AND in the summer on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10:00 AM to Noon.

Click below to volunteer for the Choice MHC Food Pantry



 

Furniture Delivery **Has the biggest need for volunteers**

We need strong volunteers to make pick-ups from donors and make deliveries to the poor. It can be a great father-son activity. You pick your own date and time, once a month or as often as you like, and we will schedule a trip for you. You can use our truck once approved, and up to three people can work together at a time. Drivers must be 25 years or older, hold a valid driver's license, and have protocol training. Please contact [email protected]

Click below to volunteer for Furniture Delivery



 

Merciful HELP Center Baby Pantry

We need volunteers to receive and organize donations from parishioners weekly. This occurs on Monday Mornings and Thursday Afternoons. We also need volunteers and subs to meet with clients and distribute items for two-hour shifts on the first and third Tuesday of the month from 5 - 7 PM.

Click below to volunteer for the Baby Pantry

Housewares Ministry

We need volunteers to receive and organize donations from parishioners weekly on Tuesday or Friday for about an hour, or for a scheduled day (family event) after we put out a request for items needed in the bulletin. We also need monthly volunteers and subs to meet with clients and distribute items for two-hour shifts on Tuesdays 10 to Noon, Thursdays, 10 AM to Noon, and Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Please contact [email protected]mercifulhelpcenter.org.

This sign-up is for trained volunteers within the Housewares ministry.