Volunteer at the International Festival

Click on the links below to sign up for the different volunteer opportunities! Thank you for supporting the International Festival!

Saturday, August 17 – Tuesday, August 27

• Yard Sale Donation Collection: help parishioners unload donations for the yard sale.
• Yard Sale Sorting and Tagging: Saturday, August 17 – Tuesday, August 27, 9:30am – 4pm to help sort and tag donations. No need to sign up ahead of time. (Note: the first week of tagging, volunteers typically finish by 1pm. Please call the office if coming after 1pm to make sure help is still needed that day.)

Thursday, August 29 – Friday, August 30

• Yard Sale Set up: help place donated items in Creedon Hall.

Saturday, August 31

• 5K: register runners and help throughout the race course. 
• Blood Drive: work the INOVA Blood Drive registration table and greet and check in donors.
• Yard Sale: volunteers as cashiers, to work at the jewelry counter, and clean up later.

Sunday, September 1

• Multicultural Mass: join us in your native costume for our Masses on International Festival weekend.
• Set up: help carry and set up tables and chairs and other miscellaneous tasks. Bring work gloves if you have them.

Monday, September 2

• Bingo: volunteers will be bingo callers, assist bingo players, and sell bingo cards. 
• Children’s Games: run games with PreK festival goers.
• Children’s Rides: help kids on outdoor rides.
• First Aid: doctors or nurses are needed to assist festival goers with minor medical needs.
• Grounds: help maintain the International Festival grounds by emptying trash bins and helping festival goers place items for recycling or composting in correct bins. ​
• Hispanic Food Booth: setup and volunteer at the Hispanic Food Booth.
• Information Booth/Volunteer Check-in: staff the information booth and check in all volunteers.
• Pub: volunteers must be 21 years or older.  
• Raffle: help sell raffle tickets before and during the festival.
• Set up/Take Down: help carry and set up tables and chairs and other miscellaneous tasks. After the festival, volunteers are needed to load tables and chairs. Bring work gloves if you have them.
• Traffic: help with traffic flow in and out of the Good Shepherd parking lot.

Tuesday, September 3 – Wednesday, September 4

• NEW! Festival Wrap Up: volunteer Tuesday and Wednesday after the Festival to assist Good Shepherd’s Facility Manager, Bob Baumann, put all the Festival supplies and equipment away for another year.

Email festival@gs-cc.org with any questions!