B-SAFE 2023 —Discover U!
St. Andrew’s volunteer week is July 17–21, 2023
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B-SAFE will be operating its 25th summer in 2024 and St. Andrew’s will be right there with St. Stephen’s, as we have been for 20+ years.
From July 8 – August 16, B-SAFE will be offering enrichment programming for elementary-aged kids, emphasizing project-based learning and connections to teen and adult staff. The B-SAFE site at St. Stephen’s church at 419 Shawmut Avenue in Boston will only be hosting children ages 5-11, with their teenaged counselors-in-training, counselors and adult staff. Our support is to provide 100 bags of non-perishable groceries, for the B-SAFE families, a fun day on Friday, the opportunity to share cooking duties, and chances to share a special interest or hobby. Our assigned week is July 29-August 2.
On Friday (August 2), the kids will come to St. Andrew’s at 9:00 am (about 100 kids, CITs, counselors and staff) and have a fun couple of hours playing here, in addition to making their own lunch from options we will provide. Then, the group will take the bus to Hopkinton State Park for fun in the sun and water, and will return by bus to Boston in the later afternoon.
In addition to financial support that St. Andrew’s is providing, you are invited to go to St. Stephen’s on Monday – Thursday (July 29-August 1) at lunchtime to help with cooking and serving under the direction of the parent chefs that SSYP has hired.
From: Karen Pekowitz and Cam McCormick, and the entire Outreach Team of St. Andrew’s
common cathedral Lunch Prep
Can you help make 150 “to-go” brown bag lunches to be delivered to the common cathedral group that meets on the Boston Common? Deliver your brown bags to the circle driveway outside church starting at 10am, but no later than 10:45am, and one volunteer will deliver the lunches to Boston.
Be Involved
Active involvement in our community here at St. Andrew’s, in Wellesley and greater Boston, as well as globally, gives us the opportunity to strengthen our faith and share the bounty of our gifts with others. There are many ways to be involved at St. Andrew’s from a fellowship event to helping various outreach ministries.