There are 50 serving options available for the week of Sunday, April 27 to Saturday, May 3. Choose from Sunday afternoon, weekday options, or options on Saturday morning and afternoon. There are both in-person and From Home options.
Every person who calls Hope home is invited to sign up for at least one serving option, and if you choose, more than one! Consider encouraging those you know where you work, live, and play to join you in serving.
Sign-ups open March 2 and close March 16.
- All opportunities are first-come, first-serve by registering HERE. Look for the Love Mason Plus day you are interested in serving.
- Every option has a specific amount of participants based on what the organization and serving option can handle.
- Family-friendly choices are marked.
- If your initial choice is full, please choose another serving option. There are many great options we want to complete, and serving options are available each day of the week at specific times.
- After March 16, sign-ups will continue for From Home Serving Options as openings remain.
Check out the FAQ page for more Love Mason Plus information.
Organization: Camp Swoneky
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: Oregonia, OH
Min. Age: 16+ | Max. Participants: 8
Category: Outside
Camp Swoneky is a summer camp in southwest Ohio owned and operated by The Salvation Army. Camp Swoneky brings hope to children from all different backgrounds. This serving option includes cleaning brush from around the one acre pond via weed whacking, cutting limbs and brush, twigs, cat tail cutting/pulling, etc.
Family Friendly? No| Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Camp Swoneky
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: Oregonia, OH
Min. Age: 16+ | Max. Participants: 6
Category: Outside
Camp Swoneky is a summer camp in southwest Ohio owned and operated by The Salvation Army. Camp Swoneky brings hope to children from all different backgrounds. This serving option includes clearing the camping outpost via trimming, cutting, pruning, and raking.
Family Friendly? No | Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Camp Swoneky
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: Oregonia, OH
Min. Age: 16+| Max. Participants: 4
Category: Outside
Camp Swoneky is a summer camp in southwest Ohio owned and operated by The Salvation Army. Camp Swoneky brings hope to children from all different backgrounds. This serving option includes cutting up a large pine tree with chain saws and stacking the wood, branches, etc.
Family Friendly? No | Special Skills Needed? Chain Saw use | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Camp Swoneky
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: Oregonia, OH
Min. Age: 16+ | Max. Participants: 15
Category: Cleaning
Camp Swoneky is a summer camp in southwest Ohio owned and operated by The Salvation Army. Camp Swoneky brings hope to children from all different backgrounds. This serving option includes working as a group to clean 10 cabins after a youth council three day sleepover event. Cabin cleaning includes pickup, sweeping, wiping mattresses, bathroom cleaning, etc.
Family Friendly? No | Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Caring Partners International (CPI)
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–3:00pm
Location: Franklin, OH
Min. Age: 13+ | Max. Participants: 12
Category: Sorting
Caring Partners International (CPI) based in Franklin, Ohio, sends volunteer health care teams to several work sites around the world in partnership with the local church to treat patients, train and teach local health care providers, deliver medical supplies, and share the Word of God. These trips are an important part of their global medical mission – Evangelism through Medicine. This serving option involves sitting around a conference table and unwrapping donated eyeglasses to prepare them for processing and use in an upcoming medical mission trip, or counting and packaging pills for upcoming trips.
Special Skills Needed? none | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Caring Partners International (CPI)
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–3:00pm
Location: Franklin, OH
Min. Age: 8+ | Max. Participants: 10
Category: Outside
Caring Partners International (CPI) maintains a large warehouse of donated medical supplies that are shipped to regions in the world where there is a desperate need. This serving option includes landscape work around the warehouse – clean up winter debris, spread mulch, weed, spruce up bushes and shrubbery, and miscellaneous tasks. Team members will be invited to bring rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows, and gloves.
Special Skills Needed? Landscaping| Complete from Home? No
Organization: Caring Partners International (CPI)
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–3:00pm
Location: Franklin, OH
Min. Age: 13+ | Max. Participants: 15
Category: Sorting
Caring Partners International (CPI) maintains a large warehouse of donated medical supplies that are shipped to regions in the world where there is a desperate need. Local volunteers check all supplies for expiration dates, and others then inventory, refurbish, and prepare these supplies for shipment. This serving option involves standing and sorting various medical supplies that have been donated to the warehouse while checking expiration dates.
Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Gettysburg Mobile Home Community
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: West Chester, OH
Min. Age: Old enough to help | Max. Participants: 20
Category: Outside
Gettysburg Mobile Home Community serves residents in West Chester. This serving option includes cleaning up yard waste at 4 or 5 residential homes with elderly and/or single parent families; beautifying the community area, and transporting the trash to community large waste containers.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? Landscaping| Complete from Home? No
Organization: Mason Health Care Center (MHCC)
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: Mason, OH
Min. Age: Old enough to help | Max. Participants: 6
Category: Outside
The Mason Health Care Center houses senior residents. This serving option includes cleaning up the courtyard leaves, bagging and transferring the bags to a large waste container.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Organization: People Working Cooperatively (PWC)
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: TBD
Min. Age: 15+ | Max. Participants: 10
Category: Minor Home Repair
Perform minor home repairs and services for low-income homeowners. Serving option may include painting, landscaping, light carpentry, minor electrical, plumbing. Specific project details and location will be finalized at beginning of April depending on volunteer skills and homeowner needs.
Special Skills Needed: Carpentry, Painting, Electrical, Plumbing, Landscaping
Family Friendly? No | Special Skills Needed? Yes – see description | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Supports to Encourage Low-income Families (SELF)
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: TBD
Min. Age: 14+ | Max. Participants: 10
Category: Minor Home Repair
SELF provides free repairs for elderly, disabled, and other low-income people in Butler County who are unable to do the repairs themselves. SELF provide all the materials and planning, and tools if needed. Specific project details and location will be finalized at beginning of April depending on volunteer skills and homeowner needs.
Special Skills Needed: Painting, Electrical, Plumbing, Landscaping
Family Friendly? No | Special Skills Needed? Yes – see description | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Sugartree Ministries
Date: Sunday 4/27 | Time: 1:00–4:00pm
Location: Wilmington, OH
Min. Age: Old enough to help | Max. Participants: 8
Category: Sort
Sugartree Ministries has been providing food, water, air, shelter, and Jesus to community members in need in Wilmington and Clinton County, Ohio since 2007. Sugartree Ministries has a room where donated clothing is stored. This project involves sorting the clothes and coats into keep vs discard, and then organizing the usable clothes.
Family Friendly? Yes| Special Skills Needed? No | Complete from Home? No
Organization: Mason Fire Department #52
Date: Sun. 4/27 Delivery Time: 3:00PM
Location: 5500 Cedar Village Drive, Mason, OH
Min. Age: Any | Max. Participants: 1 individual or family
Category: Family-Friendly
Gratitude Bags are our “THANK YOU” to first responders and their support staff. Purchase items to provide (8) Gratitude Bags… Items that will go in a gratitude bag are pre-packaged snacks and drinks that could go in a backpack for a long shift. We are asking you to include:
- A sports drink (ex. Gatorade/Powerade)
- Granola bars or Kind bars
- Trail mix
- Baked chips and/or pretzels
- Fruit snacks
- Pre-packaged Cookies
We’d also like each gift bag to include a note of gratitude or a fun drawing for our first responders – these can be completed by any age! If you choose, some Gratitude coloring sheets will be available when you pick up the gift bags.
If you choose this serving option, you are committing to purchase items to provide 8 filled Gratitude bags and deliver them at the noted time to the address provided in your confirmation email.
- We’ll provide the gift bags – you fill them!
- Bags will be available for pickup on Sunday, April 13 or during the week at Hope from the receptionist during normal business hours.
Family Friendly? Yes | Special Skills Needed? None | Complete from Home? Yes