You can literally save lives this winter! We urgently need volunteers for the Winter Warming Center.  Every winter, The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter provides overnight emergency shelter to people living outside during the winter access to a safe warm place to get a hot dinner and dry clothes. The Warming Center opens December 4, 2024, and closes March 21, 2025. We need volunteers to cook or serve dinner for 20 people which is 1 disposable roasting pan worth of food. Dinner is served at 7 pm every night. Option 1:  Cook a main course dinner at home and drop it off at the Shelter. We serve 20 people a night - one turkey sized aluminum pan worth of food. Volunteer Hours: Drop off the meal between 8 am and 4:30 pm. * If someone already signed up to cook in the kitchen, we don't need a meal dropped off on the same night. * This is a great option for families with children. Contact Gretchen to set up a tour to see what ingredients you can grab form the shelter to cook with. Option 2:  Heat up the pre-cooked dinner in our shelter kitchen and serve dinner at 7 pm to people who are literally living outside on the streets of Bangor.  Volunteer Hours: 5:30 pm to 8 pm. * If another volunteer has already signed up to drop off dinner or to heat up and serve a dropped off dinner, we don't need a volunteer to cook and serve in our kitchen that night. * 1 to 3 volunteers fit in our kitchen at a time. All volunteers in our shelter kitchen must be over 18. If you're new, fill out a volunteer application on our website and contact Gretchen to set up a tour of our kitchen. Option 3: Cook and serve 7 pm dinner for 20 people in our shelter kitchen. Volunteer Hours: 5:15 pm to 8 pm. * If someone already signed up to cook in our kitchen & serve, we don't need a server tonight. If someone else is signed up to drop off a pre-cooked meal, we do need someone to serve that night. * 1 to 3 volunteers fit in our kitchen at a time. All volunteers in our shelter kitchen must be over 18. If you're new, fill out a volunteer application on our website and contact Gretchen to set up a tour of our kitchen.