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Newman Center and Community Service Opportunities
2Care is a Newman Center Service Ministry bringing our parishioners together to serve God by serving those in need. 2Care encompasses organizations that the Newman Center tithes to, as well as others. As part of the St. Thomas More Newman Center Parish Pledge we commit ourselves to be witness to Gospel values in the Parish and the community at large by giving two hours of service to others each month.
Newman Center Tithing Organizations
- Bethlehem Home
- Birthright
- Central Missouri Food Bank
- Eldercare Center
- Front Door
- Family Counseling Center
- Open Arms Crisis Pregnancy Center
- RAIN
- Refugee and Immigration Services
- Seize the Day
- SOAR Big Brothers Big Sisters
- The Shelter
- Voluntary Action Center
Other Community
Organizations With Volunteer Opportunities
(Click on the organizations name to find out how
to contact them and visit their websites if they are online!)
Boone County
Council On Aging
Cedar
Creek Therapeutic Riding Center
Centro Latino
Columbia Area Senior Center
CRIBS
Habitat for Humanity
Loaves and Fishes
Meals on Wheels
Mid-Missouri Alzheimer’s Association
MS Institute
Rainbow House
Ronald McDonald House
St. Francis House / Lois Bryant House
The Intersection
The Wardrobe
Welcome Home
Woodhaven
If there is an organization you would like us to add to our list, please let us know by phone, (573)449-5424, or sending the information to the St. Thomas More Newman Center, 701 Maryland Ave., Columbia, MO 65201.
Bethlehem Home
(573)449-5433
The Bethlehem Home is a Christian state-licensed maternity residence
dedicated to helping girls in crisis pregnancies. They offer an alternative
to abotion by offering a positive family-oriented atmosphere and a
place to complete a healthy pregnancy.
2101 Vandiver Drive
Columbia, MO 65202
(573)474-1020
The Central Missouri Food Bank provides free food to 120 non-profit hunger relief agencies in 31 counties of central and northeast Missouri.
www.centralmofoodbank.org
Eldercare
Center
137 Clark Hall UMC
Columbia, MO 65211
(573)882-7070
The Eldercare Center provides adult day health care for adults who have experienced physical, cognitive, and/or emotional change and need a supportive environment. www.muhealth.org/~shrp/docs/eldercar.html
Front Door is a residential
treatment home for abused, abandoned or neglected youth between the
ages of 12 and 21.
www.bgtm.org
The Family Counseling
Center helps people make positive changes in their lives and empowers
them the make healthy and effective choices by providing professional
therapy, treatment, community support and vocational services in a safe
environment. The McCambridge Center and Daybreak are both operations
of the Family Counseling Center.
www.fccmo.org
Open Arms
Crisis Pregnancy Center
806 North Providence
Columbia, MO 65203
(573)874-3561
Open Arms is a Christian ministry focused on promoting the sanctity of human life and dedicated to helping people make life-affirming decisions concerning unplanned pregnancy, abstinence and post-abortion stress recovery.
RAIN
4250 E. Broadway Suite 1055
Columbia, MO 65201
(573)875-8687
RAIN provides non-medical compassionate care through care teams to
people with HIV and AIDS and provides HIV prevention education.
www.missourirain.org
Diocesan Refugee Resettlement
(573)442-7568
The Refugee Resettlement office assists in resettling refugee families
including housing, cultural orientation, education, employment and
other areas of need.
www.diojeffcity.org/resettle.htm
Seize the Day, Inc.
(573)446-2221
Seize the Day provides non-medical volunteer assistance to persons
who are chronically or terminally ill or disabled.
www.columbiamissourian.com/seizeday/
SOAR Big Brothers Big
Sisters
800 N. Providence Suite 210
Columbia, MO 65203
(573)874-3677
Big Brothers Big Sisters
provides one-to-one role models for at-risk youth in order for them
to become productive and healthy future citizens.
www.bbbsa.org
The Shelter
(573)875-1369
The Shelter provides quality services to battered women and their
children, as well as to survivors of rape, sexual assault and incest.
800 N. Providence Suite 220
Columbia, MO 65203
(573)449-6959
The Voluntary Action Center serves as an agency of first and last resort. They provide social service information, referral and client advocacy, emergency assistance, and volunteer coordination.
www.vac.socket.net
601 Business Loop 70 West
Columbia, MO 65201
(573)443-3050
Please send comments and questions to tempoc@socket.net