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Volunteers
There are many opportunities to serve at the Beacon of Life. Below is a list of volunteer teams. Please contact Joanie Weidner, 513-631-0051 or
weidner@xavier.edu, if you are interested in volunteering on one of our teams.
Opportunities to Serve at Beacon of Life
- Garden Team
- Green Team
- Hospitality Team
- Marketing Team
- Music Team
- Office Volunteers
- Outreach Team
- Social Team
- Youth Education Team
- Volunteer Coordinator
- Welcome Team
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Gardening Team
Focus: Keeps our landscaped areas looking great, including planting flowers, weeding and trimming bushes; from March through October.
Green Team
Focus: Recommending and implementing, as appropriate, simple environmental changes such as recycling and eco-friendly educational programs
(see Green Team)
The Green Team’s mission: A connection between spiritual practice and environmental consciousness, expressing love for, care of, and harmony with Earth.
Hospitality Team
Focus: provides maintenance of our center including weekly set-up of snacks after service and cleaning services and special event follow-up.
Marketing Team
Focus: Identifies and develops initiatives in strategic areas that work within the resources and annual budget to share the BOL message based on the mission, vision, core values, and objectives as outlined by Rev Linda and the Core Council.
Music Team
Focus: To assist the Beacon of Life’s Music Director in identifying music that reflects the values and beliefs set out by Ernest Holmes and United Centers for Spiritual Living.
Office Volunteers
Focus: Helps Reverend Linda and Office Staff with office duties one day a week: Tues., Wed or Thurs from 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Outreach Team
Focus: Plans and carries out our community outreach activities: School Supplies Drive in July/August, Adopt-A-Family gifts in Nov/Dec, and Food Bank Drive/Clothes Pantry several times throughout year.
Social Team
Focus: Plans, announces, and does set-up/take-down for congregational social activities and decorates church for special occasions. These include: Annual meeting in March, Picnic in the Summer, the Congregational potluck lunch in Fall, and the Holiday Potluck lunch in December.
Youth Education
Focus: Teach our 5+ year old children on one Sunday per month. Lessons, craft materials and training are provided. Volunteers receive a CD of that day’s service.
Volunteer Coordinator
Focus: Oversees all the volunteer teams and interfaces with the Core Council liaison regarding activities of volunteer teams.
Welcoming Team
Focus: Chat with newcomers after the service and invite them to stay for coffee or go to lunch with the lunch bunch.
Our volunteers are known as the “Love in Action Magic Makers.”
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