Community Outreach

The heart of a parish is the Eucharist, but the parish family is the body that makes it a unique and vibrant community with an exciting parish life. Our parish offers a variety of ways to be part of that communal family in addition to the celebration of the sacraments.

Check the bulletin for most up to date volunteer needs in the Vancouver area.

Below is a list of ongoing ministries Holy Redeemer supports. Find out how you can help!

Visiting the Homebound

• Visiting the homebound is a splendid way to live out the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Visits are made to elderly individuals’ homes as well as visits to independent living, assisted living and memory care facilities. Many of these individuals are Catholic and request Holy Communion to be brought to them. For information on how you can serve, please contact Don Anderson here.

  Serving at Family Promise

• Family Promise is a nonprofit organization committed to helping children and their families affected by homelessness in Clark County. Holy Redeemer is partnering with the Washougal United Methodist Church to host a week of shelter for families at the Washougal Church of the Nazarene. If you have volunteered in the past for WHO, this is very similar. Family Promise focuses on the situationally homeless and helps them get into permanent housing. Please sign up here to bring food and/or volunteer a shift at the shelter.

  Serving at WHO (Winter Hospitality Overflow)

• Winter Hospitality Overflow (WHO) is devoted to helping those in need during winter’s coldest months. Guests are offered not only a warm place to sleep, but a hot shower, meals, and the welcome and warmth of a caring community (that's you!) working to address the most basic of human needs. This shelter operates from November 1 to March 31 each year, Holy Redeemer has been supporting this worthy cause for years. Volunteers have been replaced by staff working at the shelter full-time due to coronavirus, so donations are needed until volunteering can resume. Please visit the WHO website to help, here.

  Serving at St. Vincent de Paul Society

• The Society offers a wide range of ways that you can help and depends on volunteers to clothe and feed those in need. View their website here. Most volunteer opportunities take place at the food pantry and clothing bank on Stapleton Road including providing office support, greeting clients at the front desk, distributing food at the pantry window, sorting food and re-filling shelves, cleaning, picking up bread and pastry from grocery stores, sorting and distributing clothing at the window, re-packaging hygiene items and more.

American Red Cross Blood Drive Donation

• Holy Redeemer periodically sponsors the American Red Cross for Blood Drive Donations, held in the Parish Center. The need for blood is constant and will continue throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Volunteer donors like YOU are the only source of blood for patients in need of life-saving transfusions. The American Red Cross is testing all blood product donations for COVID-19 antibodies. Plasma from antibody-positive blood donations may be used to help current coronavirus patients in need. PLEASE consider donating blood! To schedule a donation appointment, please click here and type in our parish sponsor code: holyredeemer. You may also contact David Ramirez at (360) 448- 9974.

  March for Life

• Each year Holy Redeemer takes the bus to Olympia, Washington sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, to participate in the March for Life at the Capitol Building. Show solidarity and support for the unborn by making this prayerful journey with us. Details on how signing up for the bus comes out in early January.