The document outlines St. Benedict's service hours and highlights for 2012, which include serving community meals, assisting families through a food pantry, donating supplies, and more. It also lists individual service activities like tutoring students and visiting shut-ins. The document concludes by providing ongoing and urgent volunteer opportunities to help local charities.

1. Goal: 15,000 Hours of Service
Hours to Date: 10,018

2. 2012 Highlights
Thus far in 2012, St. Benedict’s has:
•Served 3 community dinners at Holy Comforter
•Served 70+ needy families through the staffing
of MUST Smyrna’s clothing and food pantry
•Donated 40+ barrels of clothing and food to
MUST Ministries
•Raised money and had a good time at the
Ugly Pants Open

3. 2012 Highlights (cont.)
•Donated 170+ mosquito nets thru
Nets for Life
•Participated in Hunger Walk 2012
•Supply drives and fundraisers for
Path To Shine
•Prepared 600 sandwiches for MUST Ministries
Summer Lunch Program
•Prepared 520 lunch bags for MUST Ministries
Summer Lunch Program

4. Individual Service
As a part of the It Starts in Your Heart Campaign,
individuals in the St. Benedict’s Community
have:
•Baked cookies for Elizabeth Inn Residents
•Helped transport neighbors to appointments
•Helped transport Path to Shine students to
extracurricular classes
•Tutored & mentored Path To Shine students

5. Individual Service (cont.)
•Tutored & mentored Path To
Shine students
•Chaparonned summer field
trips for Path to Shine
•Helped with community
dinners at Good Shepherd
•Visited Shut-ins
•Volunteered at Cobb Adult Learning Center
•Performed music at a retirement community

6. Opportunities to Serve
Ongoing Opportunities
•Volunteer to help at the Community Dinners at Holy
Comforter (Betty Kidd or Peggy Kessler)
•Volunteer to help St. Benedict’s staff Monthly Pantry Night
at MUST Smyrna (Carol Kirshner or Lesley-Ann Drake)
•Volunteer with Path to Shine (Lesley-Ann Drake)
•Volunteer to transport MUST Barrel contents to MUST
Smyrna (Carol Kirshner or Lesley-Ann Drake)
•Donate food to MUST Ministries through the MUST
Barrels (Carol Kirshner or Lesley-Ann Drake)
•Donate for the purchase of a Mosquito Net through Nets
for Life (Susan Morgan)

7. Opportunities to Serve
Urgent Volunteer Needs
•Volunteer to coordinate Summer Lunch/ Sandwich
Making Event(s) in 2013 (Carol Kirshner)
•Volunteer to coordinate the “It Only Takes A Spark” warm
clothes/shoe/ coat drive (Carol Kirshner)
•Volunteer to help St. Benedict’s staff the MUST Ministries
Christmas Shop (Ginny Parrino or Carol Kirshner)
•Volunteers to help with Path to Shine’s Christmas Tree
distribution (Lesley-Ann Drake)
•Volunteer to cook/serve at the December Dinner at Holy
Comforter (Betty Kidd or Peggy Kessler)