SATURDAY 4/29 | ​SERVING OPTIONS

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
​Since there are close to 50 total serving options available for the week, we invite you to take time to review all pages and available options prior to signups opening on March 5. Because options are offered on multiple days, we are encouraging every person who calls Hope home to sign up for at least one opportunity, and if you choose, more than one!
Signups for in-person serving options will be open from March 5 to March 19
  • All opportunities are first-come, first-serve.
  • Most options have limited participants based on what the organization and serving option can handle.
  • If your initial choice is full, please choose another serving option. There are many great options we want to complete!
  • Serving options are available each day of the week (Sun. afternoon, weekdays as noted, and Sat. morning and afternoon).
  • Family-friendly choices are marked. 
  • ​After March 19, people can continue to sign up for From Home Serving Options until April 29. ​
​​Check out the FAQ page for more Love Mason Plus information.
Gratitude Bags - Lebanon Fire Dept.
​Organization: Lebanon Fire Dept - Fire Division and Fire Station 42
Date: Sat. 4/29 Delivery Time: 10:00 AM | Location: Lebanon
Min. Age: Any | Max. Participants: 10
(47) Gratitude Bags... ​Based on the number of Gratitude Bags, we want to share the costs among multiple families. Items that will go in a gratitude bag are healthy pre-packaged snacks and drinks that could go in a backpack for a long shift including: a sports drink (ex. Gatorade/Powerade), granola bars, trail mix, baked chips, pretzels, Kind bars, fruit snacks, and cookies. We'd also love to include some notes of gratitude or fun drawings for our first responders from people of all ages at Hope! * NEW THIS YEAR - We'll provide the bags - you fill them! Bags will be available for pickup by Sunday, April 23.

If you choose this serving option, please sign up 1 adult from your family for a serving option (all of your children can still attend with you), and then indicate on the link to the SignUp Genius which of the pre-packaged items you/your family are choosing to purchase towards filling the bags for your location. 

SignUp Genius for Gratitude Bags is found HERE. 

We will offer a Sunday, 4/23, Gratitude Bag Assembly Day at Hope Church for each serving option that would like a place to meet and assemble their bags prior to their delivery day. When signups end, our Project Captain will email the group to confirm both assembly day and delivery day. 
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? None | Complete from Home? No
Caring Partners Landscape and Mulch
​Organization: Caring Partners International
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9AM-12PM | Location: Franklin
Min. Age: 13+ | Max. Participants: 12
Caring Partners International (CPI) maintains a large warehouse of donated medical supplies that are shipped to regions in the world where there is a desperate need. This serving option includes landscape work - clean up winter debris, spread mulch, weed, spruce up bushes and shrubbery, and miscellaneous tasks. Team members will be invited to bring rakes, shovels, and gloves.
Special Skills Needed? Landscaping| Complete from Home? No
Faith Food Pantry - Organize, Clean, Unload
​Organization: Faith United Food Pantry
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9AM -12PM | Location: West Chester
Min. Age: 13+| Max. Participants: 10
Our Faith Food Pantry provides needed food and personal care items to families who live in Butler County. This serving option will involve serving customers when the pantry is open, and potentially cleaning, organizing, and unloading donated supplies at the food pantry.
Special Skills Needed? a Friendly, Smiling face! | Complete from Home? No
HHM Wash Outside Windows
​Organization: Hope House Mission
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Middletown
Min. Age: 10+ | Max. Participants: 11
Up to 40 men are welcomed as guests each night at the Hope House Mission Men's Shelter. This serving option includes washing the outside windows of the Hope House Men's Shelter. No special skills required, but some volunteers may need to climb on a ladder. Volunteers will be invited to bring rags, ladders, and buckets.
Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
HHM Women - Clean Yard and Mulch
Organization: Hope House Mission
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Middletown
Min. Age: 8+ | Max. Participants: 15
Hope House Mission Women's Shelter  is a place that provides a sense of safety and security and surrounds women and their children with support needed to work on the root problems that led to homelessness. This serving option includes outside landscape work - clean up winter debris; weed flower beds, and spread approx. 80 bags of mulch. Participants will be invited to bring rakes, shovels, and gloves.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? Landscape work | Complete from Home? No
HHM Men's Shelter Weed and Mulch
​Organization: Hope House Mission
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Middletown
Min. Age: 8+ | Max. Participants: 24
Up to 40 men are welcomed as guests each night at the Hope House Mission Men's Shelter. While providing men clean, safe shelter is critical, long-term success is only achieved when a combination of emotional, physical, behavioral, and spiritual support is provided. This serving option includes outside landscape work - weeding and spreading approx. 160 bags of mulch. Participants will be invited to bring rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows, and gloves.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? Landscape work | Complete from Home? No
Hope's Closet Organize and Restock
​Organization: Hope's Closet
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9AM -12PM | Location: West Chester
Min. Age: 12 | Max. Participants: 20
​Hope’s Closet enriches the lives of families that are in some way impacted by children’s services. Through the clothing boutique, foster parent support group, prayer partners, training, and future mentoring program, Hope's Closet endeavors to build intentional relationships to restore families. This serving option includes sorting donations; hanging up clothing in the store, and restocking and reorganizing the boutique.
Special Skills Needed? Organizational skills | Complete from Home? No
Int'l Friendships Inc. Car Maintenance Seminar
​Organization: International Friendships Inc.
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Cincinnati
Min. Age: Adult | Max. Participants: 10
International Friendships, Inc. (IFI) is a national organization partnering with local churches, universities, and volunteers to provide life-changing hospitality and friendship to international students. For international students who will be spending several years in the United States, learning how to properly maintain a car is important. This serving option includes working as a team to lead and present a seminar to international students on: tips to know and the process to evaluate and purchase a used car; the best ways to maintain a car; how to check fluids; how to change a tire, etc. The goal of this is to educate and also build relationships with these international students. Maybe you have a vintage or exotic car that they would enjoy seeing!
Special Skills Needed? Car Maintenance Knowledge | Complete from Home? No
Life Forward Landscape, Weed, and Mulch
Organization: Life Forward Pregnancy Care
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Cincinnati
Min. Age: School age | Max. Participants: 15
Life Forward helps women and their families make life-affirming decisions through God's love. This serving option includes mulching and weeding near the entrance and fenceline, trimming the fenceline, planting flowers in the front flower beds and by the rear entrance; weed and clean the brick walkway and in the air-conditioner fenced area. Volunteers will be invited to bring rakes, shovels,  and gloves.
Special Skills Needed? Landscaping | Complete from Home? No
Life Forward Interior Painting 
​Organization: Life Forward Pregnancy Care
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Cincinnati 
Min. Age: 13 | Max. Participants: 11
Life Forward helps women and their families make life-affirming decisions through God's love. This serving option includes interior painting of the conference room and reception area. Volunteers will be invited to bring roller holders and drop cloths.
Special Skills Needed? Painting | Complete from Home? No
Vineyard Food Pantry - Clean, Organize, and Unload
Organization: Vineyard Healing Center Food Pantry
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM | Location: Springdale
Min. Age: 12 | Max. Participants: 20
Each week, the Healing Center's Food Pantry offers more than 400 families the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of food items to create margin in people’s lives to help households move out of crisis and begin to thrive. This serving option includes cleaning, organizing, and unloading donated food items at the food pantry.
Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Worship - Social Distance-SING
Organization: Hope Worship Ministry
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 9AM-12PM | Location: Various within 30 minutes of Hope
Min. Age: Any | Max. Participants: 25
One or two teams. People go to the homes of Hope's homebound family, sing 2-3 songs or a bible reading, and pray with the person/family. Spiritual Direction will provide names from Hope, or the congregation can submit names of people to visit.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? Worship! | Complete from Home? No
HHM Men's Lunch - Cook, Serve, and Eat with Residents
​Organization: Hope House Mission Men's Shelter
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 11:30AM–1:30PM | Location: Middletown
Min. Age: 13+ | Max. Participants: 24
Up to 40 men are welcomed as guests each night at the Hope House Mission Men's Shelter. While providing men clean, safe shelter is critical, long-term success is only achieved when a combination of emotional, physical, behavioral, and spiritual support is provided. This serving option includes preparing food for 30 people - prepare taco meat, provide taco fixings (lettuce, cheese, sour cream, chips), serve volunteers and residents, and clean up the area at the conclusion. A high priority for this serving option is RELATIONSHIP BUILDING WITH RESIDENTS.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? Cook, Serve, Talk | Complete from Home? No
HHM Women Lunch - Cook, Serve, and Eat with Residents
Organization: Hope House Mission Women's Shelter
Date: Sat. 4/29 Time: 11AM - 1:30PM | Location: Middletown
Min. Age: 13+ | Max. Participants: 12
Hope House Mission Women's Shelter is a place that provides a sense of safety and security and surrounds women and their children with support needed to work on the root problems that led to homelessness. This serving option includes preparing food for 45 people - at site, bring sides, grill burgers and hot dogs, serve volunteers and residents, and clean up the area at the conclusion. A high priority for this serving option is RELATIONSHIP BUILDING WITH RESIDENTS.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? Cook, Serve, Talk | Complete from Home? No
Love Mason Plus Photography/Video Team
​Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM OR 1:00-4:00PM | Location: 5-6 Serving Options 
Min. Age: 16+ | Max. Participants: 6
Visit 5-6 assigned serving options during the week and take a mixture of photos and video using a camera. A tips page will be shared for capturing moments throughout the day. Submit video to LMP Photo Coordinator within 3 days of Love Mason Plus for creation of LMP Recap video.
Special Skills Needed? Photography | Complete from Home? No
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