PADS

**NEEDED: Volunteers for this important ministry! Details below.**

PADS is an acronym for Public Action to Deliver Shelter.  The goal of the program is to provide hospitality, food, and emergency shelter for homeless people from October 1 through April 30 of each year.  The sites are staffed entirely by volunteers. The volunteers prepare, supervise, and clean sleeping accommodations. They also provide, prepare, and offer dinner, breakfast, and a sack lunch. All are in a welcoming, supportive, safe environment. 

ACTIVE: Help with Summer Suppers!

During the summer, Christus Victor participates in the Summer Supper Ministry on the 1st Friday of each month (May through September). Summer Suppers provides dinner for the homeless community or anyone that may be in need of a home-cooked meal.  

Volunteers are needed to shop, cook, and/or serve at each month’s Summer Supper. Please check out the following link to SIGN UP!  Thank You!

In OCTOBER: Help Our Community!

PADS has been a Christus Victor ministry for 35 years! The PADS site serves guests every Sunday night from October through April. In order to support those most in need, volunteers are needed from approximately 6:00 PM to 8:00 AM.

Our goal is to have all volunteers only having to work one Sunday a month and always with an experienced partner.  If we have an insufficient number of volunteers for an activity, we may call you to request your help in other areas. We are currently in search of volunteers for the following positions:

• Food people to purchase or cook food items for the dinner, sack lunches to go or breakfast items and help serve the evening meal (from around 5:30pm to 8:30pm)

• First shift people to help set up the pads, sort the linens, set out toiletries, set up tables, check guests in, do bed assignments and generally oversee the site (6pm to 8:30 or some til 11pm)

• Second shift people to secure the site while most guests are sleeping and assemble the sack lunches for the guests to take with them in the morning (10:45 pm til 3am).

• Third shift people continue to man the site, wake up the guests, set out the continental breakfast items, make coffee and make sure the guests take their lunches in the morning (2:45am til 7am)

• Clean-Up people wipe down the pads and pillows, store them back into the closet, bag the used linens, sweep the floors, put away toiletries bins, clean the bathrooms and eating area tables (6:30am til 8am).

During the summer (May - September), we also participate in the Summer Supper Ministry, providing dinners for many homeless people and for those in the community in need on the first Fridays of the summer months. 

If you are interested in volunteering,

please click on the link below to submit your application.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION, CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW…

If you have questions about pads, please call 847-437-2666.

For questions about volunteering for a PADS shift, please Email Ann DeBartolo. for questions about providing food and/or working in the kitchen for PADS, please email Diane.