MITZVAH CORP SEEKING VOLUNTEERS

Over the past few months, Mitzvah Corps has begun to build a group of reliable volunteers who will make sure that no congregants' needs go unmet. Mitzvah Corps activities have included sending dozens of get well cards, providing transportation to high holiday services, rides to work and medical appointments and meals for several congregants undergoing cancer treatment, surgery or sitting shiva.

Mitzvah Corps serves many functions in our congregation and we are slowly expanding the services we offer. Several volunteer needs are listed below. If one fits the bill for you, please step up! If you have less time to commit, you can still sign up to be on our “on call” email list. When we have a need for a congregant who lives geographically close to you, we will contact you. These calls usually involve meals for those who are ill or transportation to medical appointments or the synagogue.

Current volunteer needs include:

  • Sending get well cards to congregants who are ill on a weekly basis.

  • Pay a monthly visit to a congregant who is housebound and would like companionship. Children welcome.

  • Make a monthly visit to a congregant at Kline Galland. Delivery of cookies or challah for Shabbat is encouraged! Children welcome.

  • Neighborhood Coordinators are our first point of contact when someone needs meals or transportation. We have volunteers in South Bellevue, Redmond and West Seattle. If you live elsewhere and would like to be a coordinator, let us know. When someone needs meals, we would ask you to email or call the volunteers in your area, arrange a meal and delivery schedule, get driving directions and be the contact with the family in need.

  • Desktop publishing your thing? We want to start a quarterly newsletter/flyer that lets our volunteers know what Mitzvah Corps has been doing and thanks our volunteers.

  • Research a resource guide for those who are facing illness or a change in their living or driving status. This could include resources like the Metro access bus, Meals on Wheels, JFS, how to access home health care, etc.

These are a few of the things that Mitzvah Corps is working on. If you can help or have other suggestions for us, contact Mitzvah Corps co-chairs, Julie Ellenhorn at ello3@comcast.net or Michele Appelbaum at michappel@comcast.net. 

Members Needed. Please feel out the survey form below.

MITZVAH CORPS VOLUNTEER SIGN UP FORM

 
Name:
Street Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Telephone:
Email Address (Required Field):
What are your preferred volunteering locations? (check all that apply) Woodinville
Bellevue
Issaquah
Bothell		 Seattle
Redmond
Mercer Island
Kirkland
 
Which activities would you like to help out with? (check all that apply)
Transportation
-Providing a ride to a person who wants to attend a HNT event;
-Providing a ride to religious services;
-Providing a ride to and from the doctor’s office;
-Picking up a few grocery items or a prescription for someone who is homebound;
-Making calls to line up local drivers for people who need rides
   
Sending Cards
-Sending cards to ill congregants
-Sending cards to families with new babies
   
Visits
-Visiting at the Caroline Kline Galland Home
   
Home Hospitality (If checked, please answer the questions below)
-Would you be willing to open your home on Shabbat to out-of-town
  visitors to HNT?		  Yes No
-Do you live within walking distance to HNT?  Yes No
-Do you have a kosher home?  Yes No
   
Food
  -Delivering meals to someone who needs it
-Cooking meals in your own kitchen (If interested cooking meals, please check the types
 of meals that you are able to make for Mitzvah Corps)
 Kosher Non-Kosher Dairy Vegetarian Diabetic Low-Salt Low-Fat
 
Cemetery/Burial
-Helping to make a minyan at a cemetery
-Helping to make a shiva minyan at a home
-Calling to organize volunteers interested in making a minyan
   
General Background Information
-Do you have any special skills such as nursing or tutoring? Yes No
-Are you conversant in a language other than English? Yes No
  -If so, which one(s)?
     

Before submitting, click here to print a copy of this RSVP form for your records.

 

Do you know of a fellow congregant, family member or friend who is feeling a bit under the weather or just needs some comforting and cheering up? If so, let Mitzvah Corps brighten their day and help them feel better by ordering some Jewish Penicillin and having it delivered to their home. We have prepared chicken soup with matzah balls, made in the HNT kitchen. Any congregant can order soup for someone else or for themselves (think Shabbat dinner). When ordering, a small donation is suggested. Mitzvah Corps can always use volunteers to deliver soup orders so let us know if you are able to help out.

MATZAH BALL MOBILE ORDER FORM
All orders will include Kosher Soup and Matzah Balls with a card and a personal note.

PERSON ORDERING SOUP:
Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Telephone:
Email (required field):
I would like to order soup: Chicken Soup
Number of servings: 2     4   Family of more than 4: people    
Delivery: I wish to pick up the soup at HNT and personally deliver it.
I would like HNT to arrange delivery.
I would like to make a tax deductible donation to HNT to offset the cost of this program.
Suggested donation: $10 for 2     $18 for 4     Other:     
Please: Bill to my HNT account  
Charge my VISA/MC credit card on file. If no card on file, I will call
     the HNT office at 206-232-8555 to give my credit card info.
I will send a check directly to HNT - payable to Herzl-Ner Tamid
     Mitzvah Corps Fund, with a notation indicating soup donation. 
RECIPIENT'S INFORMATION (for delivery):
Name:
Address:
City:
Zip Code:
Telephone 1:
Telephone 2:
Email 1:
Email 2:
I would like the note from HNT to say (25 words or less):
If you have any questions or prefer to order by phone, contact Judy Ziedman at 425-883-6482, Josie Bernstein at 206-227-3937 or email matzahballmobile@h-nt.org

 

 

  
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