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Ongoing All Saints Outreach Volunteer Opportunities

All Saints Outreach includes the following projects and activities which help to do the work of the Lord and offer opportunities to participate by contributing any of planning, fundraising, organizing, work, money, and materials. If you are involved in, or know of, other outreach opportunities, please forward details and contact info to Robbie.

1. "M4" The Montecito Churches (Our Lady of Mount Carmel, El Montecito Presbyterian, Montecito Covenant and All Saints) All Saints volunteers have previously participated in a collaborative project to assemble AIDS health care kits for Africa and recently collaborated filling backpacks for the children in need in Santa Barbara County. The contact is Rev. Jeff Bullock, 969-4771, jbullock@allsaintsbythesea.org.

2. Mobile Learning Van/Teaching English – The Mobile Waterford Learning Van, which visits Latino neighborhoods in Santa Barbara to teach English to pre-school children and which is supported by All Saints’ Outreach, welcomes volunteers. In fact two parishioners already are helping at van stops, assisting children in the general use of computers. Each van stop lasts about 20 minutes, although some stops have several waves of children coming on at a single location. Additional volunteers will help with a regular group reading time in which short stories are read to the children one day a week and the children are asked questions about the story and encouraged to speak in English with the reader and other children. This complements the computer-based learning. Volunteers do not need to know Spanish; a Spanish-speaking adult will always be nearby, however. Volunteers can contact Eric Barajas, project outreach coordinator, at 896-1625 or at ericbarajas@umail.ucsb.edu or ebarajas@sbsdk12.org.

3. American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem - An Outreach grant to AFEDJ supports scholarships for Christian and Muslim children to attend the Arab Evangelical Episcopal School, Ramallah, West Bank. All Saints volunteers Karen Tellen-Lawton and Clyde Osterhaus visited the Diocese of Jerusalem to present this grant and observe the school, and in October they reported on their trip. The contact is Karen Telleen-Lawton, 563-8978, ktl@stanfordalumni.org.

4. Transition House - On the second Sunday of every month All Saints volunteers provide, prepare and/or serve dinner and pack sack lunches for residents living at the Transition House Emergency Shelter for homeless families, 434 E. Ortega St., Santa Barbara. The approximate time commitment is 2 hours. On various occasions, Sunday School children participate by making lemonade, sandwiches and cookies. During the Christmas season All Saints parishioners donate stocking stuffer gifts for children living in the emergency shelter and also give gifts to Transition House families and individual family members living in other housing. The contact is David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.

5. Community Kitchen - Every Tuesday All Saints volunteers set up the serving line and serve lunch at the Community Kitchen located in the Casa Esperanza homeless shelter, 725 Cacique St., Santa Barbara. The approximate time commitment is 21/2 hours. The contact is David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.

6. Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) - Outreach grants and volunteer fund raising efforts support GAIA in doing its work through a variety of community and faith-based organizations in Malawi, Africa to deliver orphan care, home-based care, HIV prevention strategies, referrals for HIV diagnosis and treatment, and anti-HIV medications. The grant supported scholarships for training nurses. The contact is Judy Piper, 683-0515, judyrpiper@cox.net.

7. Franklin Elementary School - All Saints volunteers have visited a first grade classroom at Franklin Elementary School, 1111 E. Mason St., Santa Barbara to help students read and understand English. The contacts are teacher Cynthia Landriz, 683-8108, clandriz@cox.net, Shirley Stapleton, 898-0367, professorsstapleton@verizon.net or David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.

8. St. Michael's Episcopal Church and Campus Ministry at UCSB - All Saints and other Episcopal Churches in the area contribute to the support of this Mission Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles. Support has included Outreach grants, repair and upkeep work parties, providing and serving food at events hosted by St. Michael's, and serving on a Standing Committee for Campus Ministry. The contact is David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.

9. Noah's Anchorage Division of Channel Islands YMCA - Weekly All Saints volunteers help residents with homework and participate in group activities at the Noah's Anchorage shelter for teenagers at 301 W. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara. Other opportunities to help include providing cooked dinner food, helping to maintain the yard and accomplishing minor maintenance at the shelter. The time commitment varies. Each team of two volunteers is at the shelter approximately one evening per month. The contacts are David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com, and Robert and Nina Ward, 569-1568, wardrt2@cox.net.

10. Environmental Stewardship - At various intervals All Saints volunteers participate with other volunteers to help clean up local beaches and parks and to help maintain hiking trails in the foothills behind Santa Barbara and Montecito. This physical work takes place on Saturdays, lasts for about 6 hours and may include exposure to poison oak. The contacts are Liana Carty, 884-0126, liana.carty@cox.net and David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.

11. Solace Ministries Rwanda, Africa - An Outreach grant and additional parishioner donations support the purchase of cows and goats and training of local farmers and homesteaders for production and distribution of milk. All Saints volunteers David and Betsy Kain coordinate fund raising and expenditure of funds. Betsy has visited Rwanda to work on an associated Outreach project to provide psychological counseling for genocide survivors. They are the contacts at 967-6864, kain@cox.net.

12. Christmas packages - During the Christmas season All Saints volunteers buy and deliver presents for needy families of farm workers at New Cuyama, California. This is a small community located between Santa Maria and Taft on state highway 166. The contact is David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.

13. Food deliveries - Once weekly All Saints volunteers pick up healthy snacks at the Community Kitchen and deliver them to after-school programs at three low-income housing locations in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria. Twice weekly food is picked up and delivered to a low-income residential hotel in Santa Barbara. Each volunteer for each of these programs delivers approximately once per month. No lifting is required. The contact is Jack Hundley, 681-0586, jack-flo@juno.com.

14. Hearts Adaptive Riding - An Outreach grant helps to support this nonprofit program dedicated to providing empowering, educational and enjoyable therapeutic horseback riding to physically and mentally disabled children and adults. The contact is Barb Toumayan, 892-4883, bartoum@aol.com.

15. Mission Work Parties - All Saints volunteers have participated in 1-2 week long work parties to repair and maintain facilities and teach children at St. Christopher Episcopal Mission, Navajoland, Bluff, Utah, and later helped to build two classrooms at an Episcopal School on the Ft. Hall Indian Reservation, Blackfoot, Idaho. In March 2008, All Saints volunteers helped to build a water cistern and painted the interior and exterior at an Episcopal HIV/AIDS clinic in Siguatepeque, Honduras. We are looking for new ideas to continue this Outreach ministry. The contact is David Boyd, 969-2710, dboydinc@aol.com.


Click here for an Application for Outreach Funding.pdf