Opportunities From: Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering, Inc.

Goal: Coach & Guide volunteers from the community.

An experienced Volunteer Coordinator will work with various volunteers from the community to ensure a successful shelter night. Food will be provided by a restaurant, or the ingredients will be available for a simple meal to cook and serve. 

Goal: Maintain female guest shower list.

A volunteer from the community will ensure showers are stocked with shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. Volunteers will also keep track of guests who have signed up for showers and spray showers with sanitizer. 

Showers are run by volunteers and impact the morale of our shelter guests. We do not run showers if we do not have volunteers. 

There are two separate shifts for showers: 5pm-7pm and 7pm-9:15pm for both female and male showers. Male volunteers may sign up for male showers, and female volunteers may sign up for female showers.

Goal: Maintain male guest shower list.

A volunteer from the community will ensure showers are stocked with shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. Volunteers will also keep track of guests who have signed up for showers and spray showers with sanitizer. 

Showers are run by volunteers and impact the morale of our shelter guests. We do not run showers if we do not have volunteers. 

There are two separate shifts for showers: 5pm-7pm and 7pm-9:15pm for both female and male showers. Male volunteers may sign up for male showers, and female volunteers may sign up for female showers. 

Goal: Ensure the successful service of dinner for our Shelter Guests.

Volunteers from the community will prepare the kitchen for service, ensure food is served to Guests, and clean/close down kitchen for the night. May be asked to plate food, preform light cooking, serve food, maintain beverage table, interact with Guests, wipe down tables, sweep floor, wash dishes, and operate kitchen equipment.

Volunteers will be serving in a kitchen setting will be asked to wear a hairnet or bring a baseball cap/bandana to restrain hair. Volunteers should also wear closed-toed shoes. 

Join us to review food safety training designed for nonprofits, Cooking for Crowds. The course will be taught through Penn State Extension. Free for volunteers.

The course will start promptly at 5:30pm and end at 8:30pm. Volunteers will enter through the BES entrance on Walnut Street. 

Oct 7th: Shelter Dinning Hall

Jan 6th: All Purpose Room of Church

To be selected when volunteers are working independently for a particular project not listed on the calendar. This is so we can attribute hours to the Shelter when we pull reports.