Volunteering

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."   —Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Benefits of Volunteering

Perhaps the first and biggest benefit people get from volunteering is the satisfaction of incorporating service into their lives and making a difference in their community and country. The intangible benefits alone—such as pride, satisfaction and accomplishment—are worthwhile reasons to serve. In addition, when we share our time and talents, we:

• Solve problems
• Strengthen communities
• Improve lives
• Connect to others
• Transform our own lives

Over the past two decades we have also seen a growing body of research that indicates volunteering provides individual health benefits in addition to social benefits. This research, which is presented by the Corporation in a report titled “The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research,” has established a strong relationship between volunteering and health: those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer. Comparisons of the health benefits of volunteering for different age groups have also shown that older volunteers are the most likely to receive greater benefits from volunteering, whether because they are more likely to face higher incidence of illness or because volunteering provides them with physical and social activity and a sense of purpose at a time when their social roles are changing. Some of these findings also indicate that volunteers who devote a “considerable” amount of time to volunteer activities (about 100 hours per year) are most likely to exhibit positive health outcomes.

www.nationalservice.gov/about/volunteering/benefits.asp

Volunteering is Love In Action

Love In Action is the service portion of Unity of the Palm Beaches. Basic to the success of Love In Action is the belief that active sharing of our God-given gifts in service is essential to our own spiritual growth.

Love In Action allows each of us to identify and develop our spiritual gifts, and to experience success serving in that gifted area. We believe each of us is a unique combination of talents essential to the unfolding of the Divine Plan and that all gifts are equal. Our “gifts” in full expression all come together for the good of ourselves and for the entire community of love and principle in action. The theory further supports the idea that when we serve in our gifted area, when we are doing what we love to do, there is no “burn-out.” Sometimes we need to do an inner search to identify and honor our gifts and to “know” our bliss(es). As the person’s needs are met, so then the church’s needs are met!

Areas of Service at Unity of the Palm Beaches

1. HospitalityTeam
   
2. Usher / GreeterTeam
   
3. Projector Team
4. Bookstore Team
5. Sunday School
   
6. Marketing Team

Please obtain Volunteer Registration Form from the Admin Office in room 6 upstairs.