Volunteer

  
The Fellowship of Humanity

a Humanist Church

Where Volunteers are Valued
next to Nature Herself

A Volunteer with the Fellowship of Humanity has incalculable worth. The life energy of a human being, if it is spent on good works, must be cherished like a natural wonder. A person's life energy will impact society whether for good or ill. So when a person chooses to direct her life energy voluntarily into beneficial actions, she should be honored, admired, and respected (not to mention nurtured and rewarded) just as much as a pristine mountain waterfall or a wild elephant. At the Fellowship, we do everything in our power to praise, encourage, inspire, nurture, reward, and compensate volunteers.

Oftentimes, we have even been able to pay our volunteers, knowing their need for money, even if they did not initially ask for money. Since the year 2000, over sixty people have worked at the Fellowship of Humanity doing all the jobs required by our church. Anyone who does a job, does work, is a worker -- so no one escapes this title. We have been able to pay almost all workers for the hours they worked without having to clock their time ourselves. Work at the Fellowship is done on the honor system. No one stands over a worker's shoulder to keep track of her time or pass judgment on her work. And work at the Fellowship includes all the time a worker spends shopping for tools, equipment, and supplies, and traveling to and from stores. Also, a lot of latitude is given to workers to choose their own style, materials, colors, tools, methods, and pace of doing their own work. But it must be said that if a job is done poorly, so poorly that it has to be done over again, the worker responsible for it would not be allowed to do that kind of work at the Fellowship again. People who come to the Fellowship only to take advantage of its generosity are weeded out. Volunteers are workers who care about what they are doing at the Fellowship and extend themselves to make it right.

At the Fellowship we are also well aware of burn out in volunteers. We do our best not to give too much work to one person and not to let one person work too long. We make every effort to spread jobs out among several workers and to spread out the time for every job. There are usually no deadlines for jobs to be done. We like to think that the Fellowship can creep along on third-world time and still survive in this hectic society. There is no point in doing a job that stresses out its worker(s) and causes them degradation or suffering. It is the life energy of the worker that is so important to keep inspired, the human spirit that's behind the work. And when a worker is indeed inspired, the final product will be wonderful.

If you are interested in volunteering in a Humanist Church, check us out!

HumanistHall@Yahoo.com
510-451-5818 and 510-681-8699

Some of the jobs that workers have tackled at the Fellowship, most of which were paid for, include the following:

Cleaning

Construction

C                               Rebuild staircases                  Install water heater                 Install pipes to bathrooms
                                  Replace broken steps            Replace bathroom sinks         Replace broken rails      
                                  Fix broken doors                   Tile dining room floor             Replace broken deck boards
                                  Fix broken windows              Tile bathroom floors                    
                                  Rewire crawlspace                 Tile kitchen floor                             
                                  Rewire Office                          Install kitchen counters                          
                                  Rewire Offstage room

                                  Open up kitchen faucet

Landscaping

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Fellowship of Humanity welcomes volunteers on every front. If you are interested in volunteering in a Humanist Church, an organization of progressive humanists who are building a conscious community to be sustainable -- ecologically sensitive -- into the future, see if you can find a way to volunteer. And be advised: ¡Only the Ingenious with the Stamina of Elephants will prevail!
Thomas Paine		Icon of Humanist Hall


The Fellowship of Humanity a Humanist Church Where Volunteers are Valued next to Nature Herself A Volunteer with the Fellowship of Humanity has incalculable worth. The life energy of a human being, if it is spent on good works, must be cherished like a natural wonder. A person's life energy will impact society whether for good or ill. So when a person chooses to direct her life energy voluntarily into beneficial actions, she should be honored, admired, and respected (not to mention nurtured and rewarded) just as much as a pristine mountain waterfall or a wild elephant. At the Fellowship, we do everything in our power to praise, encourage, inspire, nurture, reward, and compensate volunteers. Oftentimes, we have even been able to pay our volunteers, knowing their need for money, even if they did not initially ask for money. Since the year 2000, over sixty people have worked at the Fellowship of Humanity doing all the jobs required by our church. Anyone who does a job, does work, is a worker -- so no one escapes this title. We have been able to pay almost all workers for the hours they worked without having to clock their time ourselves. Work at the Fellowship is done on the honor system. No one stands over a worker's shoulder to keep track of her time or pass judgment on her work. And work at the Fellowship includes all the time a worker spends shopping for tools, equipment, and supplies, and traveling to and from stores. Also, a lot of latitude is given to workers to choose their own style, materials, colors, tools, methods, and pace of doing their own work. But it must be said that if a job is done poorly, so poorly that it has to be done over again, the worker responsible for it would not be allowed to do that kind of work at the Fellowship again. People who come to the Fellowship only to take advantage of its generosity are weeded out. Volunteers are workers who care about what they are doing at the Fellowship and extend themselves to make it right. At the Fellowship we are also well aware of burn out in volunteers. We do our best not to give too much work to one person and not to let one person work too long. We make every effort to spread jobs out among several workers and to spread out the time for every job. There are usually no deadlines for jobs to be done. We like to think that the Fellowship can creep along on third-world time and still survive in this hectic society. There is no point in doing a job that stresses out its worker(s) and causes them degradation or suffering. It is the life energy of the worker that is so important to keep inspired, the human spirit that's behind the work. And when a worker is indeed inspired, the final product will be wonderful. If you are interested in volunteering in a Humanist Church, check us out! HumanistHall@Yahoo.com 510-451-5818 and 510-681-8699 Some of the jobs that workers have tackled at the Fellowship, most of which were paid for, include the following: `Cleaning` C Clean windows Sweep Staging Room Mop Hall floor Clean kitchen Sweep Stage floor Mop dining room floor Clean bathrooms Sweep Office Mop bathroom floors Clean tables Clean doormats Clean Hall walls Clean chairs Clean cabinets Clean wall molding Clean refrigerators Organize steel shelves Clear out cobwebs Clean garbage bins Organize orange shed Clean porches Clean railings `Painting` C Scrape outside walls Scrape railings Paint molding Paint outside walls Paint railings Paint smokestacks Scrape inside walls Scrape porch decks Paint decorative signs Paint inside walls Paint porch decks Paint out graffiti Scrape doors Scrape bathroom floor Paint doors Paint bathroom floor Scrape trim Patch holes in walls Paint trim Paint over patches C`onstruction` C Rebuild staircases Install water heater Install pipes to bathrooms Replace broken steps Replace bathroom sinks Replace broken rails Fix broken doors Tile dining room floor Replace broken deck boards Fix broken windows Tile bathroom floors Rewire crawlspace Tile kitchen floor Rewire Office Install kitchen counters Rewire Offstage room Open up kitchen faucet `Landscaping` C Sweep sidewalks Pick stick the front Remove dead branches Weed gardens Pick stick the back Remove damaged leaves Water gardens Collect yard waste Protect young plants Turn compost Sort garbage Plant native plants Build benches Stake delicate plants Clean benches Trim trees Build a seat against wall Remove castor plants Weed whack long grasses `Administration` C Create file folders Keep the books Create Journal File papers Update database records Create certificates Answer mail Make directory of venues Publicize events Organize Office Design logo Raise funds Work on website Design ID cards Update web pages Design T-shirts Kalahari Elephant by Don Bell
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