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The purpose of Wooddale Church is to honor God by making more disciples for Jesus Christ.
Next Event: The next Just Show up and Serve event will be held on August 3rd, 2013.
Held: Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. - Noon, bi-monthly (Check the Event Calendar)
Where: Meet in the Wooddale Eden Prairie Campus Gym, Door 5 to choose a site. The sandwich project will be hosted at the Edina Campus.
Want to register a group to serve together, or simply pre-register yourself or your family? Now you can! Click the tab above to pre-register for the next event!
To contact us, please email us at loveindeedwc@gmail.com.
Have you attended Just Show up and Serve before? Do you have any comments or questions? Or, would you like to learn about getting more involved with Just Show up and Serve? Please fill out a Feedback Form. Click the Feedback tab above.
Check out photos from previous projects
August 3rd Sites
Offering morning session for August 3rd from 8:30am to noon.
The organizations we will be serving at are listed below.
Morning opportunity at Edina (8:30am - Noon):
Sandwich making at Edina Campus
Many people experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities struggle to get consistent meals.
Volunteers will: Help assemble and deliver 1,500 sandwiches to several homeless shelters in the Twin Cities so they can provide lunches for their guests as they leave the shelters for the day.
Minimum age: No age limit.
Morning opportunities at Eden Prairie (8:30am - Noon):
Founded in 1993 by Dr. Jeanette Vought, CRC continues to serve the needs of many by providing quality, Christian mental health care to those who have experienced abuse or trauma. They also work with people who find themselves overwhelmed with the situations of life. This includes issues related to marriage and family, grief, depression, anxiety and long term mental illness, to name a few. They desire to turn no one away due to the inability to pay for these services.
Volunteers will: prepare and assemble snack packs for CRC clients who come to therapy hungry, make aromatherapy play dough for use in play therapy, make decorative journals for clients, and clean and sanitize toys in play therapy room at the Saint Paul location.
Minimum age: no age limit
CommonBond's mission is to build community by creating affordable housing for people with low incomes as a steppingstone to success. They envision a community that acts on a common bond of belief in the dignity of all people.
Volunteers will: paint hallways at Cathedral Hill Homes
Minimum age: no age limit
Cookie Cart
Through operation of a retail bakery, Cookie Cart offers North Minneapolis youth the opportunity to develop life, leadership and employment skills.The organization’s primary goal is to prepare young people to find and keep jobs in the 21st century workforce. It achieves this objective by giving teens the opportunity to gain transferable employment and interpersonal skills that will help them be successful in work and in life.
Volunteers will: Group will be split. Half will work in bakery and half will practice interviewing and customer service skills with Cookie Cart kids. If cookie production need is high, all efforts will be concentrated on making cookies.
Minimum age: 12 years old (3/4 of volunteers must be adults)
Hope for the City
Hope for the City exist to improve lives by distributing corporate surplus to organizations who serve those in need next door and around the world. Since its inception, Hope for the City has given more than $480 million in wholesale value of goods to organizations serving those in need, saving valuable resources from our landfills, and giving hope to people in need in our local communities and beyond.
Volunteers will: projects TBD
Minimum age: Younger children are welcome accompanied by a guardian.
Messiah's Center for Changing Lives
Messiah Lutheran Church's mission is to share the Good News, nurture the new life in Jesus Christ, and reflect God's love. They are part of the Center For Changing Lives (CFCL), an initiative of Faith in the City, which involves a 7-day-per-week seamless mix of spiritual, social, financial, health, housing, and other responses to the many challengesof inner city people and the presence of a working and worshiping faith community.
Volunteers will: projects TBD
Minimum age: no age limit
Reach and Restore (R&R) provides needy families with resources to provide a sense of hope and be a support to get back on their feet.
Volunteers will: projects TBD
Minimum age: no age limit
No afternoon option offered for August 3rd
Do I need to register?
No. Registration is not necessary. Just show up at 8:30 a.m. in the Wooddale Church gym ready to serve! You may pre-register ahead of time by filling out our Pre-Registration form.
What kind of work will we be doing?
There will always be a variety of activities to choose from. You can check out which sites are offered in the next event and read the site summaries to learn more about the specific projects offered.
What if I don't enjoy or can't do physical work projects, is there still something I can do?
Yes! Each event will have a variety of sites, some that include manual labor and some that are less physically demanding or more relational in nature.
Is there an age limit? Can my kids come?
Just Show up and Serve is family friendly and we encourage families to come and serve together. Some sites do require a minimum age due to safety concerns or the nature of the work. However, we ensure that some of the sites will be open to people of all ages.
How should I dress/what do I need to wear?
Come dressed in weather-appropriate clothing. It is recommended to wear clothes that you don't mind getting dirty, as several sites will including painting, cleaning, and other work projects. Comfortable, close-toed shoes are strongly recommended. Sun-screen, a hat, and bug repellant are also good to bring/wear especially in the warmer months.
Do I need to bring anything?
You can show up just as you are and find a place to plug in. Occasionally sites will recommend work gloves or other tools. If you can bring any such supplies to use, it will be appreciated by the sites but is not necessary to participate. The additional optional tools list for each site will be available closer to the date of the next event. Supplies for activites will be provided by the organizations we work with.
Beginning September 2012, each individual or family that attends LOVE IN[DEED] Just Show Up and Serve will be required to fill out and sign a new Waiver & Release form. If you have not already filled out a Waiver & Release for 2012/2013, please download one, fill it out, and bring it to the next Just Show Up and Serve, or send it in. Waiver forms will also be available at the next Just Show up and Serve event.
Wooddale Church
Ben Forsberg
6630 Shady Oak Road
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
or
We will only need one waiver per family or household per year, so be sure to include all members of your family who may want to participate in LOVE IN[DEED] Just Show Up and Serve over the course of the upcoming year. If you would prefer to fill it out at the next Just Show Up and Serve event, copies will be available then.
Thank you!
Sandwiches for the Homeless
The number of people experiencing homelessness in the Twin Cities is increasing every day. Just Show up and Serve is committed to helping provide for the homeless in the Twin Cities by preparing and delivering at least 1,000 sandwiches to local homeless shelters.
Organizations:
Each of the following organizations will benefit from this project. They provide pre-made sandwiches and bag lunches to their residents in the mornings as they leave for the day. They depend on volunteers and donations to provide these lunches.
- Simpson Housing
- St. Stephen's Shelter
- Our Saviour’s Housing
- 363 Days (363, in partnership with Alan Law, distributes sandwiches to the homeless on the streets in addition to providing lunches for shelter residents)
Now you can preregister for the site you like best! Remember, you, and each person in your group, must be present at the proper location (either Edina or Eden Prairie) to sign up officially by 8:30 the morning of the event or your spot will be opened for others to register. Limits are set for volunteers based on the project and organization. Just Show up and Serve will also keep some spots open for those who show up the morning of the event.
If you have any questions, please contact us at loveindeedwc@gmail.com.