Ohio-Meadville District Unitarian Universalist Association
Summer Institute

Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

Volunteering at SI - Everyone Does It

Who?
All the cool people volunteer. To meet cool people, you need to volunteer, and, lucky you, if you are 11 or older, you too can be a part of the elite SI Volunteer Corp. Our entire community is supported and enriched by volunteers. We need you and your special gifts. So what do you want to do?

What?
You can be a night lighter. Simply sit in a hall reading or talking with a friend while the little onesare sleeping. What a cushy job! Or you can be a Youth Overnight Chaperone, perfect for insomniacs or people who want to learn more about the culture of today’s UU Youth. It’s on Friday night. We need people with muscles! You can use your strength to set up and breakdown Art Space or the Bookstore. You can assist on the Cafeteria Line or, if you are coming early, you can be a luggage handler. If you want to find out if the Hokey Pokey is really what it is all about, spend time playing with UU children. You can volunteer for the After Supper Club, Vespers Child Care, and Afternoon Nursery Child Care. We need kind, considerate, and caring people (in other words, UU’s) to assist individuals one on one. You can be a smiling usher at Morning Services or Evening Vespers, or you can help with registration on Sunday.. (These are good jobs for people who would prefer not to work with children.)

Priority Level One: Many volunteers are needed
#1 Night Lighters: After-hours monitor on floors where children are sleeping
#2 Youth Overnight: Chaperone Youth All-Nighter on Friday night 
#3 Vespers Child Care: Supervise the younger ones during Evening Vespers
#4 Afternoon Nursery/Preschool: Assist with the littlest ones
#5 Luggage Assistants: Available Sunday and Saturday to help carry luggage

Priority Level Two: Fewer volunteers are needed
#6 Registration Assistants: Available at 1pm Sunday to help register
#7 Early Afternoon Workshop Helpers: Assist during children's afternoon classes
  #7A - Artistic Helper
  #7B - Physical Helper
#8 Late Afternoon Workshop Helpers:
  #8A - Artistic Helper
  #8B - Physical Helper
#9 Bookstore Set Up & Take Down: Just what it says, at the SI Bookstore
#10 Art Space Set Up & Break Down
#11 Cafeteria Line Assistants: Assist individuals or families with young children's that may need help getting through the line
#12 After-Supper Club: Assist with children's activities after dinner
#13 Assistants: Assist individuals, one on one, as needed
#14 Newsletter Workers: Help publish daily paper. Computer input, gofer
#15 Children's Musicians: Provide sing-along music for children's morning program
#16 Peek Assistants:  Set up and take down Peek game, bag gifts
#98 Volunteer Job for people with physical limitations
#99 Kid-phobic for the week - any non-kid oriented volunteer assignment please!

These are not our high priority jobs but we hope to have enough volunteers for the above jobs to allow volunteer activities such as these. Make sure you have signed up for one of the above volunteer jobs too!
#17 Lead Nature Walk: Organize bird-watching, hike, or other walk
#18 Lead Stargazing: Provide equipment, set up, publicize, explain
#19 Organize Community Sport: Organize & lead a sport activity
#20 Labyrinth set-up and tear-down

When?
You decide which two hours you are donating to the community. We have volunteer positions all throughout the day and the week.

Why?
Because we are all a part of this beloved community from which we receive and to which we give. We meet new people, experience new things, and stretch our horizons in wondrous ways.

How?
Chose your first, second and third choices from the list above and put the number on your registration form. Be specific . If you want to be a Night Lighter on Wednesday night or want to help set up Art Space on Sunday let us know on your registration form.