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Come Smile With Us!
Volunteer With LSS
Just Imagine!
Possibilities for volunteering with us are as big as your imagination! While
our volunteers currently serve in a myriad of ways, your choices are not limited
to existing options. If you have an interest, a strength or a talent you would
like to share, please let us know. We’ll find a volunteer opportunity that fits
you. There’s a place for you with LSS!
Lutheran Social Services (LSS) welcomes people of all faiths and life experiences. We
serve those in need in our community, without regard to creed or belief.
What Do Volunteers Do?
In our Community Outreach Services:
Touch-a-Life volunteers transport people for medical appointments or groceries; visit or
telephone shut-ins; provide short-term assistance with light household chores
or yard work; and help with minor repairs.
Stephen Ministers provide weekly in-home visits to people in crisis or who are having difficulty
with major life transitions to offer Christian-based encouragement and support.
Senior Companion volunteers provide in-home companionship and support to lonely or isolated individuals
on a weekly basis.
Congregational Health/Parish Nurse volunteers help members of their congregation live informed and healthy lifestyles.
Our community outreach services have offices and volunteer opportunities throughout
our service area in south central Pennsylvania. We will work with you to accommodate
your schedule and preferred location.
In our Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Volunteers:
Play the organ for church services
Visit lonely people to listen and read to them
Assist with office tasks
Teach a craft or organize a game
Escort people to restaurants or on shopping trips
Escort residents to on-site activities
Provide pet therapy
Entertain through singing, dancing or another type of performance
 Our six continuing care retirement communities are located in south central Pennsylvania.
There may be one near you where you can volunteer a few hours and still get home
in time to walk the dog, make dinner or take the kids to soccer practice!
CHAMBERSBURG
Luther Ridge Retirement Community
GETTYSBURG
Gettysburg Lutheran Retirement Village
HANOVER
Lutheran Retirement Village at Utz Terrace
SHREWSBURY
Shrewsbury Lutheran Retirement Village
YORK
The Village at Kelly Drive
The Village at Sprenkle Drive
At Lutheran Home Care & Hospice, Volunteers:
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Provide companionship to hospice clients
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Provide respite for family members of hospice clients
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Run errands, prepare meals, transport clients to appointments
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Provide comfort to clients who are actively dying and alone
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Make bereavement calls or visits
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Bake bereavement bread or make comfort shawls
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Share any special talent such as music therapy or massage therapy
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Assist with general office work or fundraising programs
At LIFE Lutheran Services, Volunteers:
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Teach Internet basics to participants
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Write and/or record participant life stories or letters
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Run errands for participants
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Visit with participants who live alone
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Mend clothes for participants
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Share talents or lead activities at the LIFE Center
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Assist with general office work
What’s in It for Me?
You will meet people you will never forget
You will make new friends
You will feel good about yourself
You will live longer and be healthier
Did you know that recent research studies show that volunteering results in significant
health benefits, including lower rates of depression and less incidence of heart
disease?
It will make you smile!
During 2009, 4,996 volunteers with Lutheran Social Services and Lutheran Home
Care & Hospice, Inc. donated 108,482 hours of service valued at $2.32 million!
Volunteers of all ages are needed to help with various projects at LSS. High
school students, wishing to fulfill community service requirements, will find
meaningful volunteer opportunities at LSS.
For more information on becoming a volunteer, please complete and submit our
Volunteer Form or contact us by email Volunteer or telephone at 717-854-3971.
Click here for Volunteer Brochure
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