Team Kindness

Learn about Team Kindness at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond. Our dedicated volunteers offer short-term support, including meals, rides, and care cards, to bring comfort and connection to members in times of need.

Spreading Love and Community Support Through Team Kindness

Team Kindness is a dedicated group of volunteers at First Unitarian Universalist RVA who provide short-term, non-emergent care to our members and friends during life's everyday transitions. Whether offering a comforting meal during a challenging week, providing a ride to a medical appointment, or sending a heartfelt card for birthdays, get-well wishes, or sympathy, this ministry delivers practical help with a joyful heart. Operating in tandem with our Lay Pastoral Care Program, Team Kindness ensures that the immediate, smaller needs within our congregation are met with compassion and swift action. It is a vital way we put our values into practice, showing up for one another in moments of both sorrow and celebration.

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond

Team Kindness offers a tender heart in a moment of sorrow, happy cheer in a moment of joy; a meal in a moment of challenge; a ride in a moment of need.

Team Kindness is a group of quiet volunteers dedicated to supporting our members and active friends in the moments of life that present us with a need for help and encouragement and even celebration.

Team Kindness works in coordination with the Lay Pastoral Care Program. The LPCP attends to more serious and long-term needs of congregants while Team Kindness provides services to congregants that are short-term and non-emergent in nature. Together, we all help to support the ministers of the church in caring for our community.

Our monthly coordinators receive your calls for assistance, and then using a roster of volunteer church members, arrange for a care provider to help you with your needs:  a meal or two; a ride to a grocery store or a medical appointment; a friendly visit; coordinators also make calls to check on those among us who have received a touch of nice in recent weeks.

Our volunteer caretakers provide the meals, the rides, the visits – the Kindness!

Coordinators are also responsible for sending birthday cards to our members who have achieved a certain age, and the sympathy, get-well, and congratulatory cards, as appropriate.

We are always happy to add volunteers to our care team.

Team Kindness can be reached by email:  teamkindness@richmonduu.org