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Welcome to Volunteer Services!

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Warm up this Christmas with two
back-to-back
Christmas Events!
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December 2: Decorating Cookies!
-Join Volunteer Services in spreading joy to our senior citizen neighbors at Resthaven's Warm Friend on 8th Street. We are meeting at the flagpole at 3:15pm to walk over and decorate Christmas cookies! Please email us to reserve a spot at volunteers@hope.edu. Space is limited!

December 3: Caroling!
-Come fill a bus! We are taking a Hope bus full of Hope students around to different assisted living locations to sing Christmas Carols! We only have room for 47 people, so make sure you rsvp today to reserve a spot for you and your friends! We will load the bus in front of the flagpole at 5:45pm and we will return around 8:00pm.

 

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Merry Christmas from Volunteer Services!

Be sure to check out our website when you return for opportunities happening in 2009!

Don't forget to spread joy, love, and service this holiday season! See you in the New Year!

Love,

Wilma, Caitlin & Brittnee...and the wonderful VS committee

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Mission Statement:

To provide a means of cultivating volunteerism in the Hope College Community through group and individual volunteer work. Through this work it is our hope that we can instill a life-long dedication to service and volunteerism.

 

Student Organizations, Greek Life, RA's, Volunteers
We want to remind you that a volunteering event can make a great activity. Make it easy on yourself by contacting VOLUNTEER SERVICES so that we can find the perfect location for you. We would love to co-sponsor something with you. Your only job is to grab your group and volunteer!

 

Goals For This Year (created by our committee):

  1. Fully inform Hope Students about who Volunteer Services is and what we do
  2. Inspire students to get excited about serving
  3. Encourage students to incorporate volunteering into their every day life during and after college!
  4. Help Hope students in finding volunteer activities that suit their interests.
  5. Make volunteering more attractive and accessible for sports teams and other organizations
  6. Help all areas and all ages where there is need. Make sure we touch as many groups as possible!
  7. Unite the Hope Community with the Holland Community
  8. Build relationships with the people we serve, and bring joy to their lives!
  9. Have Fun!
  10. Step out of our comfort zones
  11. Be Jesus' hands and feet
  12. As a team serve God by serving others

We can do no great things-- Only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa