“From [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”
At Anchor Bay, we believe that we each have a role to play in the body of Christ. Serve Weekends are an opportunity to put that idea into practice. Every Serve Weekend, we cancel our regular worship services and worship in a different way - by practicing love for our neighbors with service projects all over the North Shore. We'd love for you to consider which service opportunity speaks to your heart, mind, and gifting and plug in there!
Kids, we would love for you to serve! Your hands, feet, brains, ideas, and creativity matter to God and to the community.
Parents & Caregivers of kids under 3, we will be providing childcare for our littlest members in the nursery at Anchor Bay during our Sunday, 9am-11am projects. Just indicate that you'd like childcare when you're prompted in the registration.
Scroll down for service opportunities!
Saturday (9/28) Service Opportunities
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Anchor Bay Health: provides free medical services to those across the North Shore who are uninsured, underinsured, or who lack access to health care.
Open Door Immigration Services: loves and serves our immigrant neighbors by providing affordable immigration legal services and, together, opening the door to full community engagement.
The Opportunity: ABC Health is offering a free wellness clinic to our community! The clinic will offer simple health services, help with insurance, immigration support, free haircuts, a free meal, and more.
Time: Saturday, 9/28, 9am-1pm (different shifts available!)
Location: Anchor Bay Church
You might love this project if you:
Are a healthcare professional
Are a legal professional
Speak another language
Have a heart for immigrants
Have a heart for the under-insured
Love cooking
Love supporting those struggling with food insecurity
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The Garden School:The garden school provides an educational experience for students of all ages to learn about gardening, creation care, and food sustainability. We all need food to survive, and by gaining a deeper understanding of how to connect directly to the earth for our sustenance, we feel more secure, more grateful, and are better positioned to feed ourselves and others throughout our lifetime.
The Opportunity: Spend the morning planting seeds at the Garden School in Beverly and learning about the earth! Volunteers can help with seeding, planting, weeding, and harvesting, stocking the farm stand and beautifying the property.
Time: Saturday, 9/28, 9am-11am
Location: The Garden School, 36 Foster Street Beverly MA 01915
You might love this project if you have a heart for:
Gardening
Earth Care
Are a kid
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The Daily Table: Daily Table is a nonprofit grocery store in Salem dedicated to providing fresh, tasty, convenient, and nutritious food to our communities at prices everyone can afford. We believe that delicious and wholesome food should be available to all.
The Opportunity: Help run the Daily Table for a morning! Participants will help with a variety of tasks such as restocking shelves, sweeping and cleaning, creating fun floor displays, preparing and organizing fresh produce, and most importantly, you'll be able to meet with the customers who come through the store, making meaningful connections and witnessing your impact firsthand!
Kids, ages 9+
Time: Saturday, 9/28, 10am-12pm
Location: Daily Table, 135 Lafayette St, Salem, MA 01970
You might love this project if you:
Believe healthy and tasty food should be available and affordable for all
Are a Salem resident
Like organizing or cleaning
Love hospitality and having fun
Are a kid
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Cornerstone Creative: An after-school youth mentorship woodworking and craftsmanship program that serves incarcerated and post-incarcerated youth. They exist to be a place of safety, hope and learning. They strive to create a space where personal growth can take place by building something new, restoring something old, creating something from nothing, dreaming big and working hard - both internally and externally; physically and emotionally.
The Opportunity: We will be cleaning and organizing the woodshop that the youth at Cornerstone Creative use! We’ll divide tasks up within the group, but the big needs are sweeping, cleaning, sorting and organizing supplies/equipment, and a little bit of painting!
Kid Ages 12+
Time: Saturday, 9/29, 9-11am
Location: Cornerstone Creative - 2 Beach Ct., Gloucester MA 01930
You might love this project if you:
Love mentoring youth
Care about rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals
Are a racial justice advocate
Enjoy woodworking or painting
Sunday (9/29) Service Opportunities
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Girdler House: One of Beverly’s true hidden treasures is the Girdler House founded in 1885. This nurturing environment with its caring and competent staff, provides a safe haven, offering comfort and dignity during their senior years.
The Opportunity: Many of the residents of Girdler come from a Christian religious background, but are no longer able to leave their home to be part of a church community. So we will bring a church community to them! If you are a musician, kid, or just love to sing, join into the fun by helping to sing songs with and visiting the residents.
Kid Friendly!
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 9:30-11am
Location: Girdler House, 78 Lothrop St, Beverly, MA 01915
You might love this project if you:
Are a musician or a music lover
Have a heart for the elderly
Are a kid
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Arts Ministry: Art is a gift all by itself. It is first and foremost about helping people to practice seeing. We wanted to set apart time and space for people in our community (kids too!) to create for the sake of creating. Often our culture functions under the unhelpful illusion that art is only a commodity to be bought and sold, or used to raise money for the actually important stuff that people do. Art is about being engaged and being human. Sometimes the things that we make to help ourselves to see can serve someone else who needs to borrow our eyes and our hearts.
The Opportunity: The arts team will provide materials and art books, and some of us who make art professionally will be present and would love to help ignite creativity where it is needed.
Kid Friendly!
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 9-11am
Location: Anchor Bay Church (Fellowship Hall)
You might love this project if you:
Love the visual arts or writing, or want to explore your own God-given creativity
Are a kid
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New England Seafarers Mission: NESM seeks to provide hospitality, encouragement, advocacy, reconnection and teaching to the men and women who work on ocean going vessels. NESM provides access to a convenient store for food and other necessities as well as MoneyGram services to workers can send money home to their families. The scourge of seafarer is loneliness, since many of them head off to sea without seeing their families for months at a time. NESM helps them feel seen, loved, and remembered. NESM's Director, Steve Cushing, is a Partner and Board member at Anchor Bay Church.
The Opportunity: Volunteers will help run the convenient store, post office, and MoneyGram.
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 10am-3:30pm
Location: New England Seafarers' Mission, 1 Black Falcon Avenue, Boston
You might love this project if you love:
Seafarers
Immigrants
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SPUR: Food insecurity and houselessness is a growing issue in Beverly and Salem. SPUR helps by making meals to serve at the Lifebridge homeless shelter on a regular basis.
The Opportunity: We will meet in the kitchen at ABC to cook a meal for the 25-30 residents of Lifebridge! The meal will be served for lunch a few hours later.
Kid Friendly!
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 9am-11am
Location: Anchor Bay Church (Kitchen) - 10 Dane St., Beverly, MA 01915
You might love this project if you:
Have a heart for people who are struggling with food insecurity or houselessness
Love to cook
Live in Salem
Are a kid, age 8+
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AMOS Health & Hope: is a community based health care ministry in Nicaragua, serving 25 urban communities, two urban clinics (one of which is a town dump), reaching 28,000 people with healthcare. Amos’s goal is to train and equip local leaders to put in place best practices for preventative health care, particularly for mothers and infants.
The Opportunity: Learn about and support two programs of AMOS called “Parenting with Love’’ and “Wash” (Water, sanitation, hygiene).
Parenting with Love:In a culture where the majority of first time pregnancies are teenagers, “Parenting with Love” provides education and medical support to first time parents, both mom and dad. On Serve Sunday, you can purchase a children’s book in Spanish (on hand) for $10 and decorate a bookmark and drawing. The book and art will be given as a gift to new parents, a rare gift in Nicaragua.
Wash:Polluted water is a leading cause of death for children in Nicaragua. Amos works with local leaders to put in place water filters in homes (which are often isolated subsistence farms). Learn how to build a portable water filter for local homes in Nicaragua. Will offer a fun activity for children on the importance of clean hands and good hygiene.
Kid Friendly!
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 9am-10am
Location: Anchor Bay Church (Parlor) - 10 Dane St., Beverly, MA 01915
You might love this project if you:
Want to support families in Nicaragua
Have an interest in community based health care, clean water, and maternal/infant healthcare
Want to learn how to build a water filter that is affordable and accessible for isolated homes
You believe that the call of Jesus is to serve neighbors close to home and far away.
Are a kid
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The Opportunity: Many foster families get overwhelmed as they seek to support the children in their care. This Serve Weekend, we hope to support one of our ABC foster families by cooking freezer meals for them to have on hand during the school year so that the foster parents can focus on supporting the children in their home.
Kid Friendly!
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 9-11am
Location: Wenham; Address will be provided to those who register for this project
You might love this project if you love:
Supporting foster families
Kids
Cooking
Are a kid
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The Opportunity: Many full-time caregivers spend som much time caregiving that other house projects, and sometimes even meals and self-care fall by the wayside. Let's help one of our ABC community members catch up on some house projects (spackling, painting, hanging pictures). We'll also make a few freezer meals for them to have on hand during full days.
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 9-11am
Location: Beverly; Address will be provided to those who register for this project
You might love this project if you:
Have a heart for those with disabilities
Love cooking
Love handiwork
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The Opportunity: Some kids might be a little too little to help with our other projects, so we’re looking for volunteers to be with our younger kids aged 3 and younger in the nursery during Serve Sunday! This helps older siblings, parents, and caregivers serve our community in other ways.
All volunteers will be CORI-checked (a background check) by Anchor Bay Church to ensure a safe space for our kids!
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 8:45am-11:15am
Location: Anchor Bay Church (Nursery)
You might love this project if you love:
Kids & babies!
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The Opportunity: We'd love to have a team of people who can make sure everyone who is serving has what they need (snacks, coffee, water), welcome folks who didn't get the memo about Serve Sunday and help them plug into a project at the church, take photos to share later as we tell the stories of God's faithfulness.
Time: Sunday, 9/29, 8:45am-11:15pm
Location: Anchor Bay Church
You might love this project if you love:
Welcoming others
Storytelling
