South Oakland Shelter

SEAS hosts a homeless shelter here from Sunday to Sunday of Thanksgiving week.  We provide for approximately 30 guests for seven days.  Signup sheets are posted in the social hall beginning in early October with online registration also available.

The guests are given a place to sleep, eat, and enjoy activities provided by the generous gifts and talents of our parishioners.  There are many positions available from drivers, food preparation, food delivery, entertainment, and night watch.  

Coordinators:  Liz Coon and Bob Treharne

SOS 2018

Sign-up for South Oakland Shelter (SOS) this weekend, October 20-21, 2018. We will be hosting the homeless at our parish November 18-25 (Thanksgiving week).  This is the largest outreach program sponsored by our parish and we need over 200 volunteers to provide meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), game prizes, morning and evening drivers, entertainment, night watch, minglers, greeters, nurses, donations of food and money, cleaning of bedding and towels, and reminder calls.  You can sign up for any of the hundreds of items we need to support this project.  We need everyone’s help to continue this annual project that we have hosted for over 15 years.  Sign up in the hall either before or after any of the Masses.  

This is the last week to sign up for helping us house, feed, entertain and provide transportation for the homeless at our parish from Sunday, November 18 through Sunday, November 25. Sign up will close on Sunday, November 11 after the 11 am Mass. Sign up in the hall either before or after any of the Masses.  Thanks to your generosity we filled in most of the items we need. We still have a few food and miscellaneous items you can sign up for but our critical needs are:

• Night Watch (female  3 am to 8 am Monday and 3 am to 8 am Tuesday; Male 3 am to 8 am Friday)
• Two to three more drivers Friday Evening
• Four more people to do a load of Laundry Sunday, November 25 about 8 am
• A few more minglers/monitors any time on Thanksgiving or Saturday, November 24 (the guests will be with us all day Thursday and Saturday.
• A couple more people to make reminder calls 

SOS On-line Sign up:
You can sign-up online from 10 am Monday through 5 pm Friday using Google Docs, until Fri., Nov. 9th at 5 p.m.
To use online sign-up, open up any browser -Internet Explorer, Edge, FireFox, Safari, Google Chrome (works best with Google Chrome) and go to the web address: drive.google.com   
Click the button, “Go to Google Drive” if it appears on the screen. (Note: on an iPad you may have to download the free App “Google Drive”.)
When it asks for your email address, enter: setonssos
Click Next and enter the password: seas2018
Note:  Seton is plural in the email address (setonssos).  You will be taken to the files on the Google Drive.  Double-Click on the OpenAssign file under Quick Access.  A spreadsheet will be displayed showing all unassigned items/tasks.  There are tabs at the bottom of the page to move between the different categories of items (Breakfast, Lunch, Class Room, Laundry, Morning Driver, etc.) you can sign up for.  Enter your Name, Phone, and Email Address next to any item you want to sign-up for.  There is no “save”.   Everything you type is automatically saved.  When done, just close the web page. The OpenAssign file will be removed about 5 pm every Friday and merged with the master database.  The following Monday morning, only open (unassigned items/tasks) will be viewable online.  By  coordinators Bob Treharne  & Liz Coon

Volunteer Meeting:  Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.