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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!

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    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:

    • Provide companionship to hospice clients
    • Provide respite for family members of hospice clients
    • Run errands, prepare meals, transport clients to appointments
    • Provide comfort to clients who are actively dying and alone
    • Make bereavement calls or visits
    • Bake bereavement bread or make comfort shawls
    • Share any special talent such as music therapy or massage therapy
    • Assist with general office work or fundraising programs

    At LIFE Lutheran Services, Volunteers:

    • Teach Internet basics to participants
    • Write and/or record participant life stories or letters
    • Run errands for participants
    • Visit with participants who live alone
    • Mend clothes for participants
    • Share talents or lead activities at the LIFE Center
    • 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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    Lutheran Social Services
    South Central Pennsylvania
    1050 Pennsylvania Ave.
    York, PA  17404

    888-404-3500
    717-854-3971

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