Volunteers
To successfully care and provide multiple services to our retired priests, the ministry would require many volunteers. These volunteers, acquired through our own diocesan parishes, would go through the requirements of the Bishop Connor Pastoral Center directs, including the background check and confidentiality criteria. Not all volunteers would be necessary to actually interact with our priests. Many could and may feel more comfortable doing simple tasks in their homes such as;
- Cooking/baking - for a priest on a monthly or weekly basis
- Secretarial tasks - scheduling volunteers, phone calls, mailings
- Social event planners - planning lunch/dinner get-togethers, outings (Holy Hill, cinema) with other retired priests, and holiday meals along with other events for our retired priests.
- Laundress
- Phone calling - to check up on these priests especially when power outages, snow storms, tornados, heat waves occur. Then report any finding to ministry member assigned.
Other volunteer opportunities include:
- Errand pickup and delivery - groceries, pharmacy goods
- Drivers, to take our priests to doctor appointments, dentists, grocery stores, airports/bus/train stations, etc.
- Yard work
- Small home repairs
- Light housekeeping
- Reading to priests visually compromised.
- Visitation, especially to our priests that are in Skilled Nursing Facilities and hospitals.
- Companionship
- Computer help
- Eucharistic Ministers - for those priests desiring, but unable to receive communion due to confinement.
*Our goal is to obtain 100-120 volunteers. Giving roughly 2 primary care givers to each retired priest and
approximately 20-40 volunteers for indirect services to these priests. If you are interested in volunteering or
monetarily supporting our “Ministry for Retired Priest” please contact Maureen Edwards by email wime@tds.net
phone 577-9747 or Gail Wild email gail_wild@yahoo.com or phone (608)220-1116.