SERVING OPPORTUNITIES
SAT 18TH OCTOBER 2025
SIGN UP TO SERVE USING THE FORM BELOW
Queanbeyan Hospital
A beautiful family in our local region have been doing it tough and we’re excited to have the opportunity to bless them – a loving Grandmother currently caring for three young grandchildren whilst also going through cancer treatment.
This serving opportunity is a garden working bee and will involve removal of rubbish, mowing, weeding and general maintenance in the yard as well as a few surprise items we have in store for them!
BYO gardening gloves & covered shoes.
SAT 19TH OCT | 10AM – 3PM
Address will be given out upon sign up
Skate Park
This year we are partnering with The Salvation Army in Queanbeyan. The Salvos run a Community Connect space every Thursday from 12 – 3pm at The Salvo’s Employment Plus in Queanbeyan where job seekers & members of the community can get access and support across a range of areas.
We will be preparing a large quantity of pre-made sandwiches to freeze for the Salvo’s to have on hand to give out to people who attend the Community Connect space.
SUN 20TH OCT | 12PM – 1 PM | AFTER CHURCH
SaturDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2025
COMMUNITY DAY
The Birthing Kit Foundation (Australia) is a humanitarian organisation that provides birthing kits and education in clean birthing practices to women birthing at home in remote regions of the developing world. Together we will be packing 200 birthing kits to be shipped to women in need around the world! Please note, due to the hygiene requirements for the kits, this serving opportunity will be for Youth age & up (no kids).
SATURDAY 25TH OCT – 11AM – 3PM | C3 BUILDING
SUNDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2025
HOME IN QUEANBEYAN
HOME in Queanbeyan provides a long-term home for 20 people living with an enduring mental illness. Each resident lives in a self-contained unit in a safe, loving and non-institutional setting. HOME provides lunch each day cooked by volunteers. Residents come together to enjoy a meal, good conversation and friendship.If you love to cook then this serving opportunity is for you! This year we will be taking a team into HOME to spend the afternoon in their kitchen, cooking lunch for them on the day and a few large meals (eg. lasagnas) that can be frozen for the residents for when they don’t have kitchen volunteers available. This will not only bless those living at HOME but also give the regular volunteers a break from their consistent and generous hard work!
SUN 26TH OCT | 11:45AM – 3PM | WALK OVER AFTER CHURCH
DONATION COLLECTIONS
SHARE THE DIGNITY
This year throughout October we are collecting donations for It’s in the Bag. Share the Dignity’s It’s In the Bag drive is where they ask people to fill a handbag (teen, adult, or mum & bub bag) with essential items and a simple hand written note. Each donation is then transported to a trusty network of charity partners who will gift them to women and girls waking up in domestic violence shelters or homelessness refuges on Christmas Day.
We’d love for you to either buy a bag and fill it yourself (tags & shopping list available in the C3 foyer or online here) or donate one item or a bunch of items to be packed into bags at the end of the month!
ANYTIME THROUGHOUT OCTOBER | C3 FOYER
OTHER WAYS TO SERVE IN OCTOBER
Fortnightly Hampers
If you can spare an hour or two on Friday 10th or 24th October we’d love for you to come and serve with our Friday Food Hamper team, distributing hampers to those in need and spending time having a coffee and chat in the process.
Volunteers will require a WWCC & Volunteer Declaration.
FRI 10TH & 24TH OCT | 12:30-2:30PM
C3 BUILDING
Night Podz Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan Night Podz is a community-run overnight service that gives people a safe, private place to sleep if they’re homeless, at risk of homelessness, or going through a hard time.
Night Podz are looking for regular or one off volunteers to help this great service keep running for those in need. There are a variety of different roles that you can serve in: Caretaker, Night Service or Housekeeping.
Love on a Local
We want to encourage you to be intentional with loving and serving others throughout the month of October (and beyond!). Whether that’s mowing your neighbour’s lawn, paying for the person behind you in the drive through, making a meal for someone in need or simply a word of encouragement to a stranger. We never know the impact of a small act of kindness and generosity. We are praying that the people around us would experience the love of Christ through our words and actions as we intentionally step out this October.