Volunteering

Care Team

Our Community Care Team takes a comprehensive approach to caring for our community. Care Team volunteers keep in touch with members, while also providing pastoral and practical support when help is needed. We strive to be both proactive and responsive. Care Team volunteers bring us closer together and bring comfort to those of us who are ill, injured, recently bereaved, vulnerable, or otherwise in need of pastoral and practical support. The Care Team makes NSTE a “second family” to so many in our community.

Care Team volunteers assist with:

• Phone calls
• Hospital or nursing home visits
• Meals, deliveries, and transportation
• Reaching out on birthdays, anniversaries and yahrzeit
• Following up after a death, birth, or bris

Due to the nature of the Care Team’s work, an initial orientation meeting is held to provide the volunteers with information and guidelines to get started.

Garden Team

The Garden Team is always keen for morning tea, camaraderie, and a bit of gardening.

Join the Team from 9am-12pm on the first Sunday of every month.  Help our garden and our community flourish. Contact david.sean.roberts@gmail.com

Kitchen Krew

Our “Kitchen Krew” is an amazing team of 20+ volunteers who come together multiple times a year to plan, organise, shop, cook, and serve Shabbat Dinner for the congregation and guests.

For many years, this team has worked hard to create not only delicious and inspired Shabbat Dinners, but also to create a beautiful environment in which to enjoy the unique ru’ach (spirit) of sharing a meal with friends and family.

One of the highlights for our each year is our Chanukah Dinner. Who knew that our Valerie Jaye Hall (VJs) could seat over 100 members and guests? Who knew that the Krew could feed and serve so many people?  Over 350 latkes were made, and a beautiful Israeli meal was served.  None of this could have happened without dedicated leadership and an able team.  

We always welcome new volunteers to this wonderful group.

Shammashim

Shammashim play a vital role in helping our services run smoothly and assisting the rabbis.  It is a great mitzvah to volunteer as a Shammash!  It also provides a great opportunity to get to know more congregants. Training is easy and you will gain a more intimate knowledge of the service.  As there is a roster of Shammashim, the duty is shared, and you can sign up for once a month (or more often, or less often), and you can select whether you prefer to serve on a Friday night or Saturday. Contact the office to get started.

Yad Squad (Torah Reading)

Each Shabbat morning, and on many festivals, our Yad Squad of Torah readers join the Rabbis in sharing words of Torah with the congregation. You can select how frequently you read or chant, and on what dates. We have short and longer readings available, and we try to schedule the roster two months in advance to give you plenty of time to learn your portion(s). Our readers use a mix of different “trope” - we like the diversity this represents.  We also teach Torah Chanting if you would like to learn this ancient practice. 

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