Why We Serve:
Novant Health Labor and Delivery
Give it up for just a few of the wonderful dinner groups who have served up some amazing southern hospitality in our kitchen. Today, we want to put a spotlight on Novant Health’s Labor & Delivery department. They’ve been super stars this year – signing up to serve 13 breakfasts and dinners since January. Here’s why they volunteer:
“I’ve always enjoyed cooking and seeing that bring comfort and joy to people. We went to the SECU Family House a couple of times in nursing school and it just seemed like such a blessing for people to have a resource available like the Family House. What better way to serve your community than by doing something you love!”
“Personally, it makes me happy to cook for them. I relate food to happiness and I hope a good meal will brighten their day! Good food can make a lot of things better!”
“Volunteering contributes to hours that can be used to progress up the clinical ladder and it’s so rewarding to be able to volunteer in a way that makes it not even feel like you’re volunteering.”
“Volunteering for the Family House makes it worthwhile because I once was in Ronald McDonald House and having people around that cared to volunteer and make our worries disappear with a good meal meant the world to me.”
Their Tips on Serving a Meal
- Collaborate with your team: that way everyone can bring small things that we can then put together as a whole meal.
- Have a list posted in a central area for people to sign up to bring food.
- Nominate an individual to look up available dates, coordinate meal ideas, and communicate with your whole team.
We’re not kidding when we say it takes a village to run the Family House.
Just look at how many people it took to feed families this past quarter. A big thank you goes out to all the other individuals, families, businesses, churches, and clubs that filled our kitchen with amazing food. Thank you!
Allegacy Federal Credit Union
BB&T Lighthouse Project x 3
Born Again Free Youth Sunday School
Brookberry Park Apartments
Cannon Group
Carol and friends
Carolina Southern Regal State Pageant Queens x 2
Charlie’s Garage
Early College of Forsyth
Family House Volunteers
Fellowship Church
Food Lion Hawthorne Rd.
Forsyth County Hotel Association x 2
Forsyth Medical Center Labor & Delivery x 5
Holiday Inn Express West
Holy Cross Youth Ministry
Joy Ainsworth, Anna McFarland, Kate Moore, and Cathie Cartwright x 2
Katie Brady
KBC.ym
Leadership WS Class of 2019
Leonard Ryden Burr
Meghan McManus
Melissa Rosebrock
Merry Meal x 6
Mt. Valley Hospice x 2
Musette Nesbit
Nicole Moreno
Novant Adopt-a-House x 3
Novant Forsyth ICU
Oaklawn Baptist Church
Patient Family Advisory Council-WFBCCC
Piedmont Triad Apt. Assoc. ECHO Committee
Pine Grove UMC Witness & Outreach Committee
River Oaks Community Church Small Group
Rockingham County SECU
Rooted Altar Ministries
Rose Corry x 2
SECU Ambassadors-Stratford Road x 2
SECU-Eden, Madison, Reidsville
SECU-Kernersville
Sharon and Joe Murphy
Shen Team
Sloane Bowen
St. John CME Church
Stafford Family
Take the Fight
Tennis Buddies x 2
The Friends
The Kool Kids
The Morgans, Griffiths, Mills, and Tina x 6
The Summit Church x 3
Travelers Protective Association
Trinity UMC
Twin City Quarter
Union Cross Baptist Church Women on Mission
Virginia Tech Alumi
WFU Pro Humanitate Days