Hope Church women are invited to participate in Women’s Service Day to offer a whole or half day of their time in support of local programs to benefit women and Children. Women’s Service Day is an opportunity for women to offer their time, skills, and talent to nonprofit organizations in the Holland/Zeeland area, to increase awareness of issues for area women and children, and to network among women in our community.
The one-day annual event, which was started by a group of women in our community (including Hope Church’s Lois Maassen and Waltraud Beckmann, Marcia Davis, Cindy DeGraaf, Sue Gadbois, Cheryl Murdoch, and Carrie Ypma), is in its eleventh year. Hope Church will again provide the host location for the mid-day meal, as it has for the past nine years. Like last year, Women’s Service Day 2012 will focus on building community in the City of Holland. Volunteers will be working at Nuestra Casa (a new neighborhood center in Westcore Neighborhood), and at a number of nonprofit organizations in Holland.
In the past, we’ve cleaned and organized, painted and finished, landscaped and weeded, cooked and baked, washed windows, assembled lesson plans and materials, organized and led after-school activities for middle school girls, made cards for families with loved ones who are terminally ill or living in nursing facilities, and prepared a building for construction.
This year’s event will be held on Thursday, October 4. To get involved, register online, or for more information, visit our website, WomensServiceDay.com. You can also help us expand our community network by inviting your sisters, friends, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, daughters, partners, and colleagues (aged 18 and older).
If you’re not able to commit to a work crew that day, you can still help by providing kitchen assistance the day before or the day of the event; by donating handmade arts, crafts, or culinary products for the auction and raffle that will this year benefit the Nuestra Casa project; or by donating diapers, wipes, or new infant clothing for the donation drive, which supports Breakfast with Babies, a local support program for low-income mothers. Contact Lois Maassen directly or through the contact form on this website if you’d like to explore any of those options.