Service Opportunities

We offer a variety of service projects each month. Please contact Lisa Brown for upcoming service opportunties at abad@oakland.edu or call our campus ministry office at 248-370-2189.

  

South Oakland Community
Lunch Program
Come join us in preparing and serving a meal for area homeless! We meet at the "Church on Main" right across the street from the Main Art Theater on Main St. in downtown Royal Oak at 10:15AM. Our service day ends around 1:30pm. Please contact Lisa Brown to volunteer your time and care!

Volunteers needed for the following:
Saturdays from 10:15AM - 1:30PM
March 20, 2010
April 24, 2010


 

 

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

We need 12 volunteers each evening from 7:30pm to 10pm
(registration, prepare and serve meals, distribute blankets)

We need 4 Volunteers to stay overnight from 10pm to 7am
(with Staff supervision)

Food donations to make the meals (pick up food cards at registration table). Donations of hats, gloves, socks or men’s underwear (medium and large).

Please see us in the Gathering Area to Sign Up starting January 16th.        Printable Flyer
   
  
 

Manna Soup Kitchen
Volunteers are needed to serve at the Manna Soup Kitchen the last Saturday morning of each month. We meet in the St. John Fisher parking lot to carpool to Detroit. We leaveat 6:30AM sharp (it is recommended you arrive at 6:20AM). The soup line closes at 11:00 and once the kitchen is cleaned up we are generally ready to return home by 11:45.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact Roger and Jean Bajorek at 248-693-4257 or rbajorek10-8@comcast.net.
    

 
Catholic Community Response Team (CCRT)
Needs volunteers from 10am - 3pm, Monday—Friday

Volunteers provide referral and direct assistance to those in need in the North Oakland county area (GREAT resume experience for any Social Service students!!!)...your volunteer time could also include answering phones and helping unpack deliveries on Tuesdays (Currently being done by a few SJF parishioners btwn 64-72 years old! URGH! We need help!)

This is an on-going need, but even volunteering for one day is deeply appreciated!!

Our CCRT works out of a shared office with Catholic Social Services at 53 Franklin Blvd., Pontiac, MI 48341. For more information, visit the CCRT website at www.pontiacareavicariate.org/ccrt or contact Barb at 248-334-3595 x3332, ccrt@cssoc.org, to volunteer.
  

Or, if you would like to be part of our regular parish Outreach or Justice and Peace ministry......

Our St. John Fisher Outreach Ministry sponsors several events each year that
allow us to share our resources with those in need, such as: such as: South Oakland Shelter, Habitat for Humanity, Place of Hope Warming Center, Trips to the Manna Soup Kitchen, etc. This ministry meets on the First Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM. For more info please contact Nancy Isken or Sue Buratto.

Our SJF Justice & Peace Ministry team’s mission is to raise our community's social conscience on contemporary issues by witness to the gospel and Catholic Social Teaching. This ministry generally meets on the first Sunday of each month at 8:00 AM. For more information please contact or Sue Buratto.

There are also a number of others ministries at SJF that welcome, heartily, student and young adult involvement, such as EarthCare Ministry, Companion Ministry, etc. Please visit our SJF website for details on the more than 45 active ministries at our University Parish.