Good Shepherd’s Outreach Committee has for the past few years been trying to achieve a couple of objectives: (i) identifying volunteer opportunities that individual parishioners might be able to participate in on their own initiative without the need for a larger group from the church necessarily being part of that effort; and (ii) identifying organizations providing services for those in need “closer to home” in the SE suburban corner of the metro area. While we have been forced to function virtually for the past 14 months or so due to the pandemic, we have used some of that time to create a document, which we are calling a “community clearinghouse list,” whose purpose is to identify and organize in one place those volunteer opportunities that we are aware of and some organizations providing support for those in need. By necessity, in creating these lists we have identified some organizations and opportunities that we have no personal experience with, so we would encourage parishioners and people who may be looking for the offered services to follow up for themselves if they feel like they need more information on any particular organization. We hope that eventually these lists can become resources not only for members of Good Shepherd or people who might be interested in Good Shepherd, but also for the community in which we are located. This is part of a longer-term vision for Good Shepherd that envisions Good Shepherd becoming a place that can serve as a resource for people in the community where they can go when they feel the need for help—in this case, the help might not come directly from the church, but rather from the possibility that these lists will provide information about where that help might be available. We expect that these lists will continue to evolve and will need to be updated—and we would certainly welcome input from parishioners or others who are interested about additional organizations or opportunities that we should consider adding to the lists.