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Join Oak Ridge Church for one weekend as we forgo services and unleash an army of volunteers onto the streets to serve in every way on  Sunday, March 24th, 2024!
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Coastal Hospice

Salisbury, MD

(25 tickets)

When someone you love has a serious terminal illness, it can be all you think about, which can be mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting. For four decades, the Coastal Hospice staff have been frontline workers, serving patients and families when they are at their most vulnerable. Coastal Hospice’s team of nurses, doctors, nursing aides, social workers, spiritual care providers and grief counselors can help you through it. Most of their services are free to your loved one through Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance. No one is ever turned away, regardless of their ability to pay. Coastal Hospice’s first board, took inspiration for their mission and logo from writer and philosopher G.K. Chesterton: “We’re all in the same boat in stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

 Start: 9:00 am 
(All Ages)

Project:  Landscaping the outside of the property, and cleaning the inside office space.

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Community Garden

Pocomoke City, MD

(25 Tickets available)

Community gardens are more than just good for the environment, they build welcoming, safer communities by providing an inclusive meeting area where all ages and cultural backgrounds can come together to share experiences and knowledge. If you feel more areas should include a community gardens to educate people on where food comes from and provide opportunity for people to engage with their food system then join the this site and help a community build their own garden.

 Start: 8:00 am 
(All Ages)

Project:  Dig and place irrigation. Weeding, planting and cleaning up the garden. Place roof on lean too.

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Chesapeake Housing Mission 1

Princess Anne, MD

(20 Tickets available)

Chesapeake Housing Mission offers a wide variety of basic construction and home repair services that complement the skill sets of our volunteers. In addition to the building of wheelchair ramps, we also perform critical home repair to help our clients be warmer, safer, and drier. There are three construction projects in three different towns across our Eastern Shore to help three different people in need.

Start: 8:00am (Ages 14+)

Project:  Building a wheelchair ramp at a residence.

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Chesapeake Housing Mission 2

Crisfield, MD

(20 Tickets available)

Chesapeake Housing Mission offers a wide variety of basic construction and home repair services that complement the skill sets of our volunteers. In addition to the building of wheelchair ramps, we also perform critical home repair to help our clients be warmer, safer, and drier. There are three construction projects in three different towns across our Eastern Shore to help three different people in need.

Start: 8:00am 
(Ages 14+)

Project:  Building a wheelchair ramp at a residence.

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Chesapeake Housing Mission 3

Westover, MD

(15 Tickets available)

Chesapeake Housing Mission offers a wide variety of basic construction and home repair services that complement the skill sets of our volunteers. In addition to the building of wheelchair ramps, we also perform critical home repair to help our clients be warmer, safer, and drier. There are three construction projects in three different towns across our Eastern Shore to help three different people in need.

Start: 8:00am 
(Ages 14+)

Project:  Building a wheelchair ramp at a residence.

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Create-a-Card

Salisbury, MD

(35 Tickets available)

More than 50 percent of residents residing in nursing homes and assisted living facilities have no close relatives, and 46 percent have no living children. A staggering number of them, even those with family, spend weekends, birthdays and even holidays by themselves, alone in their memories. The residents of John B. Parsons Assisted Living Facility will receive a caring touch and personally created card.

Start: 9:00am 
(All Ages)

Project: Creating cards to be distributed at John B. Parsons Assisted Living.

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Diakonia

Ocean City, MD

(50 Tickets available)

Homeless people are 4 times more likely to suffer from some form of mental illness. More than a shelter, Diakonia strives to address the root causes of homelessness through a variety of programs and initiatives. For those who are in danger of becoming homeless, Diakonia offers counseling, guidance and assistance in accessing a wide variety of support programs.

Start: 9:00am 
(Ages 14+)

Project:   Landscaping, painting a back fence, power washing, cleaning and organizing food pantry and freezer.

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Eastern Shore Pregnancy Center

Salisbury, MD

(25 Tickets available)

Offering each woman and her family the chance to meet their newest member in utero, Eastern Shore Pregnancy Center offers free limited obstetric ultrasounds, as part of their many services for women with unplanned pregnancies. While it is impossible to pinpoint the full effectiveness many mothers have decided against abortion the moment they met their child through an ultrasound, at a pregnancy center like the one located right here in Salisbury.

Start: 9:00am 
(Ages 14+)
Project: Cleaning and organization of the center. Shampooing carpet. Prepping and preparing fundraiser materials. Painting room.

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Junior Achievement

Salisbury, MD

(30 Tickets available)

The Perdue Henson Junior Achievement Center will provide experiential learning of financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship to more than 10,000 students each year. This 25,000 sq. ft. regional facility, located at the Oak Ridge Commons in Salisbury, will serve students from six counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and one county from the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Start: 9:00am 
(Ages 14+)
Project: Preparing office materials, unpackaging items.

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ORC Easter Service Preparation

Salisbury, MD

(40 Tickets available)

Easter is Christianity’s oldest and most important holiday and more Americans search for a “church” around Easter than at any other time of the year. In Luke 15:10 the bible says, “there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents”. Here at Oak Ridge over 200 people have given their lives to Jesus at our Easter Services the last three years. Preparations began months ago to help welcome the over 2000 guests expected this Easter and we need to add the finishing touches to those plans.

Start: 9:00am 
 (All ages)

Project: Clean up the church property (outside) prepare for Easter services.

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HALO: Homeless Shelter

Salisbury, MD

(30 Tickets available)

From it beginnings in 2007,  HALO hasn’t waivered in its commitment to minister to the homeless right here in its community. Providing meals, shelter, case management wrapped in the HOPE that can be found in the gospel message of Jesus Christ. Each day, it is their desire to “Love ’em like Jesus.” They continue to seek God’s direction in all we do and to be just a small part of bringing about life change.

Start: 9:00am 
(Ages 14+)

Project:  Project: Painting, cleaning up the garden, cleaning the shelter.

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HALO: Bargain Center

Salisbury, MD

(30 Tickets available)

HALO believes in the importance of restoring dignity to those who need it most. Guests that are staying in the shelter are given “HALO Dollars” when they visit our Resource and Respite Center. They can use these dollars to purchase needed clothes, shoes, or other necessities. The graduates of their Journey of Hope life change program receive “Home at Last” HALO dollars to help them purchase start up needs for their new home. For every $2.10 spent at the bargain center a meal is ensured for someone who is homeless and hungry. For every $25.00 spent at the bargain center a place to sleep, shower and meal for a mother and their child is guaranteed.

Start: 9:00am 
(All Ages)

Project: Painting  outside window frames, laying down mulch, landscaping, sorting through clothing and linen donations.

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Maintaining Active Citizens MAC Inc

Salisbury, MD

(30 Tickets available)

MAC Inc. is one of the five oldest Area Agencies on Aging in the United States. Founded in 1972, MAC, is charged with helping older adults live with independence and dignity in their homes and communities. MAC offers an abundance of services to help more active seniors live their lives to the fullest, such as helping retirees find meaningful volunteer opportunities and helping seniors to improve their physical fitness and to take charge of their health. MAC has a network of senior centers, where participants can enjoy recreational activities, fitness and educational programs, and the company of other seniors.

Start: 9:00am 
(Ages 14+)

Project:  Landscaping and laying down mulch in outside areas that seniors relax in, staining benches. 

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Maryland Coastal Bays

Ocean City, MD

(150 Tickets available)

The Maryland Coastal Bays Program (MCBP) is one of 28 National Estuary Programs (NEP) across the country that receives EPA funding in order to work toward the restoration and protection of “estuaries of National significance.” The Program is a grassroot, multi-stakeholder collaboration working toward meeting this goal. The Maryland Coastal Bays watershed is an impressive coastal resource; it supports abundant wildlife and a wealth of aquatic resources in a relaxing rural atmosphere unique to the mid-Atlantic region. 

Start: 9:00 am
(All ages)

Project: Roadway clean-up

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Nanticoke Watershed Alliance

Cedar Hill Park Marina

(25 Tickets available)

Ever walk along a beautiful beach and been surprised to find a piece of plastic at your feet? You might be even more surprised to learn that volunteers have picked up more than 220 million pounds of trash from beaches in the last 30 years. The problem goes deeper than what you see on the beaches. Scientists estimate that more than 8 million tons of plastic enter our ocean every year.

Start: 8:00 am
(All ages)

Project: Clean-up at  Cedar Hill Park Marina.

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Nanticoke Watershed Alliance

Cove Beach

(25 Tickets available)

Ever walk along a beautiful beach and been surprised to find a piece of plastic at your feet? You might be even more surprised to learn that volunteers have picked up more than 220 million pounds of trash from beaches in the last 30 years. The problem goes deeper than what you see on the beaches. Scientists estimate that more than 8 million tons of plastic enter our ocean every year.

Start: 9:00 am
(All ages)

Project: Clean-up Cove Beach.

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Nanticoke Watershed Alliance

Roaring Point

(25 Tickets available)

Ever walk along a beautiful beach and been surprised to find a piece of plastic at your feet? You might be even more surprised to learn that volunteers have picked up more than 220 million pounds of trash from beaches in the last 30 years. The problem goes deeper than what you see on the beaches. Scientists estimate that more than 8 million tons of plastic enter our ocean every year.

Start: 9:00 am
(All ages)

Project: Clean-up Roaring Point.

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The Salisbury Zoo

Salisbury, MD

(100 Tickets available)

Visiting a zoo is the perfect way to spend a day together as a family. Grandparents, parents, cousins, and siblings can all find something to enjoy at the zoo. The Salisbury Zoo provides this wonderful family opportunity for FREE since 1954. The Zoo now provides naturalistic enclosures for species native to North, Central and South America. The Salisbury Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums. 

Start: 8:00 am
(All Ages)

Project:  Bamboo removal, leaf and litter removal, tamping stone on walkway cracks, trimming overgrown vegetation down pathways.

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The Salvation Army Richard Hazel Boys & Girls Club

Salisbury, MD

(30 Tickets available)

The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs of America creates some of the most exciting and memorable moments for youth. Programs include spiritual, character, leadership, and arts development. Various sports are offered throughout the year, including flag football, t-ball, softball, and basketball. From June-August, the pool is open daily for children attending summer camp. The pool is also open to the public during specific hours.

Start: 9:00 am
(Ages 14+)

Project:  Project: Clean up the pool deck area, landscaping, paint both locker rooms.

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Wicomico Humane Society

Salisbury, MD

(40 Tickets available)

The Humane Society of Wicomico County is dedicated to saving the lives of at-risk animals, and matching pets with their forever families while providing premier temporary care and shelter for the animals in our community.

Sat March 23rd, 9:00am
(All Ages) 

Project:  Clean out storage shed; dust, clean floors, clean windows in the lobby; power wash the front of the building and sidewalks, lay stones in play yards, wash staff vehicles (inside and out), rake play yard, walk dogs after 11:00 a.m. if needed.  Help with any other areas of need as requested by the shelter staff.

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Worcester County Humane Society

Berlin, MD

(40 Tickets available)

Each year over 8 million cats and dogs enter shelters in the United States and 70% of those are euthanized. The Worcester County Humane Society is a nonprofit, NO KILL animal shelter serving all of Worcester County and surrounding areas. Their mission is to provide food, vet care, and unconditional love until a suitable, loving and forever home is found.

Start: 9:00am
(All Ages) 

Project: Landscaping, repairing cage screens Cleaning out the dog pools, scrubbing vinyl sides of the cat sheds and organizing storage areas.

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Women Supporting Women

Oak Ridge Church

(10 Tickets available)

Breast cancer is the one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among American women. 1 in 8 will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime and 85% of breast cancers occur in those with no family history. Pillows help elevate pain and pressure from the incision sites of women who are currently being treated for breast cancer.

Start: 9:00am
(Ages 14+) 

Project: Stuffing and hand sewing pillows for women currently receiving treatment for breast cancer.

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