Leadership Team

The Leadership Team is a team of faith: refusing to duck responsibility, refusing to take the bow, and committed to serving every volunteer and guest. They bind themselves to work hard, honor Jesus above all things, and live out a life of love for one another. This team is not serving through volunteers; it is Christ living through the leadership. Westside Compassion is not their work; prayer and support is their work. Westside Compassion is not their desire; Jesus is their desire.

Objectives:

• Lead the overall for the event
• Communicate with churches, agencies and schools
• Recruit team leaders and members
• Support team leaders
• Plan and conduct coordination meetings
• Follow up with teams
• Make final decisions as needed

Financial Team

Precious to the heart of God is the way His people use money. This team will create a financial force that more than meets the needs.

Objectives:

• Develop and operate an accounting procedure
• Create and manage budget
• Secure insurance policy
• Fundraising

Parking and Security Team

The Parking and Security Team is the first impressions team of Westside Compassion. Their primary goal is to welcome the patient with a friendly greeting and helpful direction. In many ways, this team sets the tone for every other experience the guest will receive.

Objectives:

• Organize volunteers to handle parking and security
• Coordinate extra parking space around the area
• Layout parking lot for mobile vans
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Public Relations Team

The Public Relations team is the voice of Westside Compassion. They passionately represent the efforts of hundreds of people. No progress will be made without this team saying it well.  In doing so, they also dare to stand next to the throne of God and declare, “You are loved by the King of Kings.”

Objectives:

• Create all media for advertising the event
• Write and distribute press releases
• Organize community notification
• Communicate with local media
• Document the event through pictures, video and writing

Follow-up Coordination Team

Our guest’s experience will be a flash in the pan if not for the follow up team. This team will recruit, train, and mobilize an army of volunteers whose interest is seeing people get a boost in our community. They will build relationships that will last a life time, or perhaps one without end.

Objectives:

• Develop a program of volunteers that make sure attendees get to their follow up visits
• Develop a program that connects churches, local agencies, and individuals with the people who attend Westside Compassion
• Follow up on patients needing on going healthcare

Equipment Management Team

The Equipment Management team is those who bless the people involved in Westside Compassion by their service of love and hard work. They model a sacrifice of love for Jesus and people through their cheerful labor setting up rooms with tables and chairs, hauling medical equipment, and keeping the grounds in a manner of cleanliness that honors Christ and blesses Hillsboro UMC.

Objectives:

• Communicates with all other coordinators to assess needs
• Gets tables and other equipment rounded up and set up
• Handles set up and tear down organization
• Directs clean up crews

Social Service Partners

The Social service team is committed to organizing a fair with many community partners represented.  Throughout the day, our guests will visit your booths to receive information, services and/or referrals.

If you are part of a social service organization or church that would like to share your information with the people of Westside, please complete the Social Service Information form and contact the team leader.

Objectives:

• Provide information, services and/or referrals
• Make the fair a fun event for our guests
• Provide opportunities for informational seminars

Interpreters Team

The Interpreters team provides the health care, intake, and social services, with interpreters who show kindness and compassion to those served by Westside Compassion. They are a thread between cultures that stitches the community together.

Objectives:

• Recruit and schedule interpreters
• Plan for Spanish interpreters

Hospitality Team

The Hospitality Team provides leadership in coordinating a team of warm, inviting people who demonstrate the love of Jesus through their kindness and their servant hearts. They are the hug of Westside Compassion. Their primary job is to make the volunteers and people who attend Westside Compassion feel loved and honored. As much as the Lord allows, this team is to build ongoing relationships with patients, so that Westside Compassion inspires lives beyond the event.

Objectives:

• Organize general volunteers
• Recruit general volunteers
• Provide food for volunteers the day of the event

Dental Team

The Dental team provides leadership in pulling together Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants and equipment necessary to meet the patient’s basic dental care needs within the scope of Westside Compassion’s ability to be most helpful. More than fixing teeth, this team ministers to the people with the healing power of Jesus Christ. 

Objectives:

• Recruit dentists and dental offices
• Coordinate NW Medical Teams van and volunteers
• Set up mobile dental units at the clinic
• Establish guidelines for the scope of dental services
• Pre-assign patients for morning appointments
• Screen patients for most effective ministry

Prayer Team

The Prayer team provides consistent intercessory prayer support in order to ensure that Westside Compassion is a work of the Spirit of God which will bring glory and honor to Jesus Christ and His compassion to the people of Hillsboro and the surrounding areas.

Objectives:

• Personal intercession over the on-going needs of Westside Compassion  (updated on a regular basis through e-mail or prayer memo's)
• Coming together in corporate prayer to intercede spiritually for the Hillsboro area and surrounding communities
• Event assistance to help organize and host the Volunteer Worship Night and prayer support the day of Westside Compassion

Children’s Ministry

Objectives:

• Entertain the kids.

Optical Team

This  team provides leadership in pulling together Opticians, Optometrists and Assistants and equipment necessary to meet the patient’s basic optical care needs within the scope of Westside Compassion’s ability to be most helpful. More than eye checks, this team ministers to the people with the healing power of Jesus Christ.

 Objectives:

• Recruit Opticians, Optometrists, LensCrafters for provision of glasses
• Coordinate Lyon’s Club eye check vans and volunteers and coordinate with Pacific University’s optical van
• Set up mobile optical units at the clinic
• Establish guidelines for the scope of optical services
• Pre-assign patients for morning appointments
• Screen patients for most effective ministry

Financial Team

Precious to the heart of God is the way His people use money. This team will create a financial force that more than meets the needs.

Objectives:

• Develop and operate an accounting procedure
• Create and manage budget
• Secure insurance policy
• Fundraising