Adat Shalom: Community Life

The Community Life Committee works to improve the quality of life for the members of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation by stimulating connections between, and involvement by, members of the community, fostering a shared identity among congregants, matching volunteers to needs within programs and committees, and identifying opportunities to strengthen a sense of community.

Activities

Many different groups within Adat Shalom shelter under the Community Life umbrella. These include specific Community Life projects such as the Cookbook, recurring events such as scheduling and recruiting volunteers for In-home Potluck Suppers, and supporting other standing committees such as Village Captains. In general, if it involves social activities, we get involved!

You can volunteer to help on a specific task, like phone calling or opening your house for a pot-luck supper, or you can join one of the on-going committees. We’re also the group to contact if you have an idea for a potential activity, and you’d like to find out who else might want to be involved or how to get it started.

Projects to work on	Events to participate in	Other CL committees
Exit Interviews – make phone calls to outgoing members	In-Home Pot-Luck Suppers – host or attend a dinner one Friday night. Meet new people or reconnect with friends!	Villages – volunteer to host or help out at social and life-cycle events close to home. This can include fun activities like sukkah parties, and tikkun olam activities.
Volunteer Matching – host or attend a dinner one Friday night. Meet new people or reconnect with friends!	Seder Connection – host a family for Pesach
Annual Retreat – a big project! Looking for someone to chair a committee in search of a new locale for this event		Interfaith Support Group – contact Judie Blanchard and become part of this dynamic group of Adat Shalom families.

Honoring our Holidays, Caring for Creation (H2C2)

Adat Shalom’s ‘Honoring our Holidays, Caring for Creation’ (H2C2) is an inter-generational experiential holiday-based Jewish environmental educational initiative (with generous initial funding from the Legacy Heritage Innovation Project). Members of Adat Shalom can read the read there for a sense of what our community is up to, and how you can more fully plug in. Friends from near and far can peruse the site for anything of value to you and your community — we hope you can use our materials and even replicate our successes; leave a note on this blogsite, please, if you do!