http://livingministry.org/blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:14:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://livingministry.org/blog/09/14/news/touching-heaven-at-alive-2011/ http://livingministry.org/blog/09/14/news/touching-heaven-at-alive-2011/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:03:31 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1907 Join us for Pittsburgh’s largest celebration for the homeless on Saturday, November 19th in Allegheny Commons Park! ]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/09/14/news/touching-heaven-at-alive-2011/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/09/03/news/2011-carwash-is-coming/ http://livingministry.org/blog/09/03/news/2011-carwash-is-coming/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:57:02 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1860 On Saturday, September 10th, the ministry held it’s annual carwash fundraiser. As you know, or goal was to garner $50 per car in donations, and we actually ended up around $67 per car! Thank you goes out to our volunteers who came out and enabled us to wash an amazing 178 cars! Thank you also goes out to all who made sponsorships and those who had their cars washed. If you made a financial commitment towards the carwash, you can send your donation in to the following address: L.I.V..I.N.G. Ministry 2536 ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/09/03/news/2011-carwash-is-coming/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/02/23/volunteer/upcoming-volunteer-opportunities-2/ http://livingministry.org/blog/02/23/volunteer/upcoming-volunteer-opportunities-2/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:33:50 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1551 The following one-time events are open to everyone! Take a look at what we have coming up, if you would like to serve alongside of us please contact Jenna Burdette at volunteer AT livingministry DOT org. Also be sure to take a look at our ongoing volunteer opportunities for information about repeating programs! April 2011 Sunday, April 3rd: Serve a meal at Pleasant Valley Join us with a group of your friends to serve a meal to the men at Pleasant Valley Shelter. Your group will be responsible for providing an ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/02/23/volunteer/upcoming-volunteer-opportunities-2/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/12/30/news/fall-volunteer-recap/ http://livingministry.org/blog/12/30/news/fall-volunteer-recap/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:03:10 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1516 Fall is a busy time at L.I.V.I.N.G. Ministry, have no doubts about that. The past three months saw three major mailings, a work day, the clothing sorting, ALIVE, and a job fair! With all this on top of our regular volunteer events like labor halls and shelter visits it’s hard to imagine what it means to sit still. Thank you to all of our volunteers who made the last three months not only possible – but a real success! Mailings In October we sent out a newsletter, and ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/12/30/news/fall-volunteer-recap/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/10/23/news/l-i-v-i-n-g-ministrys-jefferson-award-winner/ http://livingministry.org/blog/10/23/news/l-i-v-i-n-g-ministrys-jefferson-award-winner/#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:53:44 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1388
About two months ago Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sent a flyer to the office addressed to the volunteer coordinator. The paper was accepting nominations for the Jefferson Award: an award given to volunteers that display heroism in their service. Past national winners of the Jefferson award include Colin Powell, Sandra Day O’Connor, Oprah Winfrey, Peyton Manning, Jimmy Carter and many other household names. After a short discussion it became clear that we had a Jefferson Award quality volunteer in our midst: Weiting Zhang. Weiting is a former intern of the ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/10/23/news/l-i-v-i-n-g-ministrys-jefferson-award-winner/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/10/20/news/something-about-september/ http://livingministry.org/blog/10/20/news/something-about-september/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:41:19 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1378 September was a busy month here at the L.I.V.I.N.G. Ministry! We held our annual car wash, held our first zero-staff Labor Hall, and hosted two successful workdays on the house. Read on to see how our volunteers made a difference in Pittsburgh this month. September 9th: All Volunteer Labor Halls We reached an exciting milestone with this one! As our entire staff was in Chicago for the CCDA annual conference about urban ministry we held our very first entirely volunteer lead Labor Hall. Our goal is to train ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/10/20/news/something-about-september/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/09/21/news/honoring-him-at-alive-2010/ http://livingministry.org/blog/09/21/news/honoring-him-at-alive-2010/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:06:11 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1210 It’s fall again, and as is our custom, we are preparing for our next ALIVE celebration. For the past 7 years we have been throwing the best party for the homeless Pittsburgh has ever seen! To make this year’s celebration the best ever, we will need your help. Last year we had 200 volunteers. Praise God! This year we will need even more to do this great work. If you like to pass out clothes, prepare food, play board games, sing worship, or pray with people, then we have a ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/09/21/news/honoring-him-at-alive-2010/feed/ 0 http://livingministry.org/blog/09/21/news/augusts-fantastic-volunteers/ http://livingministry.org/blog/09/21/news/augusts-fantastic-volunteers/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:02:14 +0000 Charles Chapman http://livingministry.org/blog/?p=1204 August was the month of unsung heroes here at LIVING Ministry! Many times the work our volunteers do involves a big project: demolition on a house, making breakfast at 5:00 in the morning, spending a few hours at a shelter. Without volunteers helping to do these jobs, we simply couldn’t do what we do here. But this past month we needed a whole different breed of volunteer: someone who would come in and quietly do some organizing, make some phone calls, and type resumes up. These ...]]> http://livingministry.org/blog/09/21/news/augusts-fantastic-volunteers/feed/ 0