SERVE OUR CITY 2024
Christ Church Cathedral is coming together to transform our city through acts of loving service! Join us as we love God and neighbor by caring for our animals, cleaning up our environment, clothing and feeding the unhoused. Let’s show Lexington how our prayer and action can change lives and make this world a better place!
WHO DO WE SERVE AND HOW?
Serve Our City offers us a perfect way to bring our friends together, meet needs and make a difference. We will care for animals, tend to creation, and provide for people in need through a wide range of projects hosted by Christ Church Cathedral ministries and our partner organizations. Each project is designed to be completed in two hours or less. It’s not a big time commitment but when we all come together we can make a huge difference.
WHO JOINS IN OUR MINISTRY?
There are opportunities available for everyone to serve, no matter your age, ability, or mobility. Participants range from age 5 to 95. You can pick a service opportunity that best fits your interests and abilities.
HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?
Check out the descriptions of the opportunities we have available (below) and sign up for the one that best fits you! We would love to have you and your family and friends. If you have a service organization or coworkers, you can invite them along too. Questions? Contact Matt Strange, our Intern for Outreach, at mstrange@ccclex.org.
Adopt - A - Highway
Saturday, April 27
10am - 12pm
Meet at Christ Church Cathedral Great Hall
Everyone ages 13 and up are welcome!
Group size: No limit
Join our Creation Care efforts and help beautify our city by tidying the Cathedral’s newly adopted highway! The Cathedral adopted two miles of US 27 (Broadway) from High Street to the Corman Railroad overpass. The group will meet in the Great Hall of the Cathedral to review safety information, then walk to our adopted road, and begin clean-up. Safety vests, warning signs, and trash bags will be provided.
Lexington Humane Society
Saturday, April 27
7:30am - 11am or 2pm - 5pm
Kentucky Horse Park
Everyone 16 years and up are welcome!
Group size: No limit
Volunteers will have the opportunity to support the Lexington Humane Society in one of their biggest fundraisers of the year! Volunteers will join LHS at the Land Rover 3 Day Horse Event where they may help with the merch table, supervising at the doggy daycare, or monitoring the doggy kissing booth/ donation table. This event takes place at the Kentucky Horse Park and your service will provide help for the animals staying with LHS for the next year!
Community Cupboard
Saturday, April 27
10am - 12pm
Community Cupboard, Basement of Christ Church Cathedral
Children and adults are welcome to participate!
Group size: 6
The Community Cupboard, a Cathedral ministry in partnership with The Nest, provides hygiene supplies, personal grooming items, and cleaning supplies to people in need. These supplies are not covered within government safety net programs. In this service opportunity we will fill bags with supplies. These bags will be distributed to people in need by our partners at The Nest.
Community Closet
Saturday, April 27
10am - 12pm
219 East Short Street
(Central Christian Church, Watkins Building)
Adults comfortable interacting with people experiencing homeless welcome.
Group size: 2
The Community Closet, a Cathedral ministry in partnership with Central Christian Church, offers free clothing, shoes, blankets, and acessories to both adults and children in need. In this service opportunity, we will help tidy the space and assist shoppers as they select their articles of clothing.
Make Sandwiches for The Hope Center
Saturday, April 27
10am-12pm (drop off)
Make sandwiches at home, then drop off at The Cathedral.
Everyone is welcome to participate!
Group size: No limit
In this opportunity we will make sandwiches that will be delivered to the Hope Center for their HopeMobile. The HopeMobile is a mobile outreach unit that is parked at a different downtown location each weekday to provide food and other services to those in need in our community. The HopeMobile relies on volunteers to deliver 100+ sack lunches every week. You can make sandwiches at your home and deliver them to The Cathedral on Saturday, April 27 between 10am-12pm and Matt Strange will get them to the Hope Center.