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Please click on SCHEDULES at the top of the Volunteer Opportunities menu to the right for all current ministry schedules.
St. Vincent de Paul Ministries
Contact: Mary Ann Witkowski 509.859.3455. or Parish Office 509.962.9819.
Our purpose is to assist those in spiritual, emotional or material need in our parish and community through prayer, service, and sharing of material resources.
As part of our preparation during Advent, a Jesse Giving Tree is placed in the church. The tree is decorated with symbols of those who prepared the way for Jesus. Inscribed on each tag is a gift idea for the for families and individuals whom we serve through St. Vincent De Paul Society. Parishioners are invited to take a tag(s) and purchase the appropriate gift as indicated.
Pro-Life Ministry
Contact: Larry & Bea Cates 857-2163
The function of St. Andrew’s Pro-Life Ministry is to promote the awareness of the teachings of the Church in all aspects of life with reverence and respect, protecting the dignity of all human beings from life to death.
F.I.S.H. -- Friends in Service to Humanity
Contact: Karen Gookin 509.962.9648
St. Andrew’s Parish is one of about 12 local churches that sponsors F.I.S.H. through sustaining contributions, as well as, through weekly food donations. F.I.S.H. provides families and individuals in need with supplemental food boxes twice a month, and serves lunch at the food bank to anyone hungry on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday noons. Members of the sponsoring churches also cook and serve Saturday night dinners at F.I.S.H. for those in need. Parishioners may donate non-perishables for F.I.S.H. in the wicker baskets provided in both entryways of St. Andrew’s. Because of the 2014 fire, temporary services are in place while they rebuild.
Habitat For Humanity
Contact: Bill Bobovski 509.925.1051
The mission is to provide adequate and affordable housing for those in need. We are guided by scripture directing us to care for each other and particularly those in need. In seeking to build both the tangible and the spiritual aspects of the community, Habitat proclaims the love of Christ in both word and deed, and aims always to glorify God.
Hospice Friends
509.962.7379
Be a companion in a close and personal way to a dying person in their last weeks on earth.
Hope Source
509.925.1448
The goal is to build a community where all people can live a life of hope, dignity, and self reliance. Volunteer opportunities include administrative, crop gleaning, and the food bank.
Volunteer Chore Service
509.929.3057
Operated through Hope Source. Volunteer Chore Service seeks to provide day to day living assistance for senior citizens and disabled adults to enable them to stay in their own home. This enhances their independence and keeps them from isolation.
Community Garden
Contact: Sue Hart 509.962.04169
An outreach ministry of St. Andrew’s that provides fresh organic produce for our two local food banks. Parishioners and other members of the community may rent garden space to grow fresh produce pesticide free, while watering and weeding the garden. Produce grown in the Food Bank section, as well as voluntary donations from individual gardener’s plots, will be donated to F.I.S.H. and APOYO food banks. Growing season is April through October. Registration for plots begins late October.