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Supporting Awakened Heart Spiritual Center 
Community Outreach
Awakened Heart Spiritual Center is a place of celebration, healing and personal growth, and our commitment is to support you in your spiritual journey. We know that an essential part of the
journey is to be in loving service, and so we are pleased to offer the Love In Action—Opportunities for Service guide.
Being a part of a thriving spiritual community involves giving and receiving. Your time and talents support AHSC... without you there would be no spiritual community. As you look through the
guide you will see various opportunities where you can share your gifts. Please look through the information and choose a way to support your spiritual home.
If you have any questions about a particular opportunity, please contact the team leader listed in this guide and they will be happy to share more information with you.
Greeters - Be a welcoming face as people enter into our Sunday sacred space. Greet guests in foyer with name tags, identify those who are here for the first time. Pass out welcome packets.
Ushers - Seat guests, pass out Sunday Bulletin, pass collection plates.
Commitment: One Sunday per month, Minimum 3 month
Team Leader: Richard Urquhart - 302-753-9457
If friendship and hospitality are your gifts, you will have an opportunity on Sundays to welcome new people to our service. Help people understand how they can become involved in AHSC,
discuss the different areas of service, and explain how they can get involved in New Member classes. Activities include helping with New Member Classes, phoning newcomers, visioning.
Commitment: Minimum 6 month
Team Leader: Marty Borowski, Congregational Manager - 302-477 1768
Before service set up book table. After service sell books and merchandise, and break down table.
Commitment:Minimum 3 Months
Team Leader:Linda Patton - 302- 239-6080
The Healing Connection gives service to the AHSC Community by offering individual abbreviated healing sessions one Sunday a month for a “love donation” which goes entirely to AHSC.
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Minimum Commitment: Offer services on Healing Connection Sundays 6 times a year and attend 6 monthly Healing Connection meetings per year.
Team Leader: Cindy Krahn - 302-239-4826
Do you love kids? Work from a curriculum that is innovative and transformational rather than instructional.
Lessons are interesting and creative and give our youth the opportunity to explore deep questions and learn principles that they can take with them into their daily lives.
We are looking for teachers who are committed to both teaching and learning.
Commitment: One Sunday or less per month depending on the number of teachers. Minimum 6 month
Team Leader:Kathleen McCarthy - 302 - 792-0693
Help plan and “host” social events. The Joy Connection organizes outings, walks, theater and museum trips for adults and families. The team offers Books and More as well as other events.
No training necessary, just enthusiasm and an interest in area events that are suitable for the AHSC community.
Commitment:Minimum 6 months
Team Leader: Nancy Zippee - 302-995 6510
Calling all kitchen angels! Help with set up and take down of Sunday morning snacks, coffee and tea as well as Well-Being Workshops, and occasional pot lucks.
No cooking necessary but if you like to bake all the better!
Commitment:Minimum 3 months
Team Leader: Diann Rust - 302-275-1448
Express your musical, dance, acting, or other performing talents, to inspire, transform, and uplift our spiritual community. Join other performing artists in collaboration, creativity, and
production for the purpose of catalyzing spiritual growth and expansion of yourself and others.
Commitment:Minimum 6 month or by special project
Team Leader: Contact Vessa for auditions - 302-322-5132
Are you someone who shows appreciation by building or constructing? Help set the Sunday and workshop environments with chairs, tables, and equipment for the comfort and aesthetics of
our services, workshops, and special events?
Commitment:Minimum 3 months
Team Leader:Marty Borowski - 302-477 1768
Express your creativity as part of a team of visual artists who use the visioning process and collaboration to design an environment that is harmonious, uplifting, inspiring, and spirit-filled.
Be a part of set production for special events and services. Painting, sculpture, decorative arts, interior design, fabric arts, floral arrangement, etc.
Commitment: Minimum 3 month for altar/floral design.
Team Leader: Rosemary Lane - 302-834-9637
Be a part of a collaborative team that puts on special events and workshops including Workshops for Well-Being from advertising, scheduling, and planning to set-up, greeting, providing refreshments,
setup and cleanup.
Commitment: Minimum 3 month
Team Leader: Alice Casey - 302- 521-6999
Help our historian, Lisa, record special moments in the life of our spiritual community for our scrapbooks and website. If you enjoy photography, this is the team for you.
Commitment: Minimum 3 months
Team Leader: Lisa Cristofich - 302-993-0374
Are you interested in electronic video and/or sound equipment and production? This is the team for you.
Assure good sound production and will soon record the services and workshops for AHSC website and CD’s for
purchase.
Commitment:Minimum 3 months
Team Leader: Position Open
AHSC is currently involved in community outreach as a way of extending ourselves in love and service to
people who are homeless, in transition, in prison, and other social services. Be that loving presence that heals, uplifts, and encourages by volunteering for any of the programs.
Friendship House is a coalition of Christian churches and community organizations committed to making a difference in the lives of Delaware’s homeless men, women and children.
Volunteer opportunities are available for group and individual activities, child care, mentoring/tutoring, clothing collections, and much more.
Commitment:Time Commitment is flexible weekly, monthly, and semi-annual commitments made by each volunteer.
Contact: Jane Bouza - 302-234-0516
Mary Mother of Hope House is an emergency shelter for homeless and destitute women, Residents of Hope House I, as well as the other emergency shelters, receive an array of
supportive services in a caring environment designed to encourage them to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency. Various opportunities are available.
Commitment:Time Commitment is flexible.
Contact: Jane Bouza - 302-234-0516
Deliver noontime meals to Meals on Wheels clients. Be that loving presence that heals, uplifts, and encourages to homebound seniors no longer able to cook or shop for themselves.
Commitment: One weekday a month, making meals according to Meals on Wheels qualifications.
Contact: Linda Patton - 302- 239-6080
Distribute quilts to children who have life threatening illnesses or who are in safe houses or homeless shelters. Quilts for Kids make quilts for distribution. Christmas of 2006 AHSC donated
75 quilts to Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
Commitment:As needed
Contact: Rev. Anna Marie - 302-239-7646
AHSC participates in an international grassroots peace movement called “Seasons for Peace and Non-Violence” (S.P.A.N.). You will be collaborating with others of like-mind to make a
difference at the local and global level. For details, see
www.agnt.org under Seasons for Peace and Non-Violence.
Commitment: Commitment varies by season’s planned activities
Contact: Position Open
This is a team of independent certified holistic arts professionals who are active participants in the AHSC Community. You are invited to participate in the Healing Connection to realize through the
healing arts the Perfection of the Spirit within.
When: 3rd Sunday of the month Following Celebration of Life Service
Location:Awakened Heart Spiritual Center, 2800 Silverside Road, Wilmington, DE 19810
Love Donations: 100 % of donations received go directly to AHSC
How To Receive a Session: Sessions are offered on a first come/first serve basis by signing up at the Healing Connection table at the Sunday Celebration of Life Services.
Types of Services offered: Reiki, Body Work, Dynamic Back Treatment, Energy Clearing through Chakras, Magnetic Roll Out, Angelic Light Body Healing and other healing modalities.
Length of session: Each abbreviated session lasts between 20-30.
Who We Are:
All participating holistic care professionals are certified in the healing modality they offer and have independent liability insurance coverage. We bring many years of experience and commitment to
personal growth to our sessions.
Our Intention:
Our intention is to develop a community of holistic care professionals and healers of diverse modalities, whose practices are based on Principles of Truth. We are dedicated to promoting wellness and
wholeness through Spiritual application, education, and service. We are honored to be here as care givers, doing our part to love, serve and share; to move past, through, and beyond judgment and fear.
In the unfolding of God's Perfect plan, we rejoice in the possibilities of the transformation of humanity, supporting each other as we go!
More Info: Call Team Leader Cindy Krahn at 302-239-4826
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