Volunteers

Application
Qualifications and Requirements
Opportunities
Testimonials

Kindness is like a garden of blessings, and almsgiving endures forever.
Sirach 40:17

The Value of Volunteering

When you see someone in distress, your first impulse is to help. When you see a community need, you want to do something. The question is how to translate that generous spirit into action; the answer is, volunteer.

Like many organizations we have a person that works with and for volunteers, and can help you choose the right spot for you. For more information at 713.741.8708.

Testimonials

Volunteering is a way to give, to do it you need to find your own way to serve. Try to fill a need, overcome obstacles, and then testify that in giving we receive. We find in serving others, we serve God!

Here are many testimonials from people around America that share their talents and blessings with others:
Writer and cartoonist Ben Wicks was concerned about the number of Canadians handicapped by poor reading skills. He wrote a book explaining how parents can help their children learn to read. Financial help from businesses and organizations enabled him to distribute two million free copies.

Margaret Edwards of Rockcliffe Park, Ontario, had a large family and almost no free time, but she wanted to do something for others. She decided to have tea once a week with someone lonely. Now that she has more time, she often cares for a child while the mother shops and tutors neighborhood children. Small everyday kindnesses can mean a lot.

The two young daughters of Robby and April Roberson were killed when a speeding boat crashed into theirs. To save other lives, the couple started an association to lobby for state legislation and programs to educate boaters. Thanks to their work, Alabama passed a law that establishes a minimum age for boat operators, requires licensing, and applies drunk-driving laws to boats. Other states are following suit.

There is a lot you can do for others in many ways. We would like to invite you to share your talents and time working with and for families; to see some of our FLM testimonials, click on the video links below.

Video Testimonial from Family Life Ministry Volunteers

Jerry and Marci View their testimonial (English)

[ ^^ ]

Opportunities

Catholics who actively practice their faith are needed to assist with a variety of Family Life Ministry programs relating to the following:
Marriage preparation, including Natural Family Planning
Marriage enrichment and healing
Parenting education and family enrichment, including family retreats
Ministry with persons separated, divorced and widowed
Bereavement
Hospitality for programs or events (which would include free registration for the event)
Making phone calls from home to confirm program registrations
Limited computer tasks that could be done offsite (typing content for manuals, etc.)
[ ^^ ]

Qualifications and Requirements

General Qualifications of Volunteers of Time and Talent:
The Gospel of Jesus Christ has illumined their life.
A volunteer is to share in the great adventure of evangelizing.
The Light which lights their way is shared generously with God's people.
In the act of sharing, the Light becomes brighter for us all.

Profile Requirements for Family Life Volunteers:
• Generous spirit – willing to share particular knowledge, skills, attitudes or personal experience supportive of marriage and family life.
• Catholic in good standing.*
• Knowledgeable about Catholic teaching on marriage, human sexuality and family life and willing to learn that which is not yet known.
• Demonstrated willingness to follow these teachings in one's own life.
• Not in an irregular marriage.
• Willing to sincerely affirm the declaration of new converts to the Catholics faith:
"I believe and profess everything the Catholic Church believes, teaches and professes."

* Non-Catholic Christians are enthusiastically welcomed as volunteers in our ministry. These qualifications are modified in their case, in respect of the beliefs and practices of their faith community, at the discretion of the Family Life Director. The person must not, however, have left the Catholic faith, must agree to always support Catholics in their belief and practice of Catholic teachings on marriage, sexuality and family life, and must not speak against any aspect of Catholic belief or practice.

To learn more about how your gifts and talents could make a difference in our work, please call 713.741.8708.
[ ^^ ]

Volunteer Application

Please click here to apply as a volunteer in Family Life Ministry.
[ ^^ ]

"Talents and blessings that the Heavenly Father gave you were not meant for you alone. Volunteering is a good way to share them with your brothers and sisters, with the world."