Volunteer Alert!

Poached from today's Trib Local.....I worked at a PADS shelter in college and it was a great experience.

From October to May, the First United Methodist Church of West Chicago is "home" to the DuPage PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) homless community every Thursday evening until Friday morning. This is the 25th year to provide this service and new volunteers are always needed. A new volunteer orientation with be held on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 7 p.m., 643 E. Washington St., West Chicago. Shift work is scheduled for once a month. The shifts are 6:30 p.m to 9 p.m. setup and dinner; 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Light clean-up, personal laundry, make lunches; 1 am to 5 a.m. complete personal laundry and towels; 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. breakfast and clean-up. Also needed are volunteers to help prepare a home-cooked dish for supper or to provide essentails for breakfast or sack lunches (eggs, breakfast meat, lunch meat, bread or fruit). All the bed linens need to be laundered each week. The frequency for being assigned laundry duty depends on the number of volunteers and may be designated as few as three times during the entire season. Laundry is picked-up on Friday mornings and clean linens must be returned before the following Thursday. Can't commit to once a month? Sign-up to be a substitute volunteer for any shift. For more information please call Brian Hendricks at 630-231-7532 or 630-840-2448.