FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Are youth/children under the age of 18 allowed to participate?

Youth/children under the age of 18 are allowed to participate ONLY if a parent/guardian will be on site to chaperone them. A parent MUST bring their youth/child that morning and sign a notarized form authorizing their child to participate in the Clinic. The youth/child must remain with their parent/guardian the entire day the Clinic. This is a new policy that will be enforced for the safety of our volunteers under the age of 18.

2. I am not available to work the entire day of the Clinic. May I work only part of the day?

Yes. While we encourage our volunteers to work the entire day of the Clinic, we understand that may not be possible. We welcome any amount of time that you can serve at the Clinic. If you know in advance that you will not be able to serve the entire day of the Clinic, please include that information in the Comments section when completing your registration. If you are serving as a Shepherd and need to leave the Clinic, please see a Coordinator (blue shirt) to ensure that your guest(s) will be assigned another Shepherd. Guests should never be left unattended.

3. Do I have to wear a Touched Twice t-shirt?

While we encourage our volunteers to wear a Touched Twice t-shirt, any plain white or Christ -honoring t-shirt is appropriate. A limited number of Shelby Touched Twice t-shirts will be available for a donation of $7 on Friday evening and Saturday morning.

4. Is there a place at the church where I may store my coat or other personal belongings?

There is no area available to store personal belongings. These should be left in your secured automobile. Should the day of the Clinic be cold, you will be leaving your warm vehicle and getting into a warm van that will take you to the Clinic.

5. Where can I mail a financial donation or deliver food/clothing/hygiene items that I would like to donate?

You may mail a check to Shelby Touched Twice c/o Salem Baptist Church, 8311 Mt. Eden Road, Shelbyville, KY 40065. Donations of food/clothing/hygiene items may be made at Ferrell’s Heating and Air, 6036 Frankfort Road, Shelbyville, Ky. 40065 ( the Old Henry Clay School in Clayvillage) during regular business hours.

6. Where do I park the morning of the Clinic?

Volunteers will be directed to park at the Shelby County Fairgrounds (MAIN entrance). Vans will transport all volunteers to and from the Clinic throughout the day. If you do not see a church van with a Shelby Touched Twice sign on it, please call 502-437-9437.

Hundreds touched by clinic

Article & Photo By Lisa King of Sentinal News

Touched Twice Ministries had a very successful clinic in Shelby County for the second year in a row, offering medical screenings – including blood pressure and glucose screenings – dental chiropractic and vision testing and treatment.

Starting at 10 a.m., the parking lot at First Baptist Church in Shelbyville had within 30 minutes filled with vehicles carrying people who took advantage of those tests  plus a free clothing bank and food pantry, financial advice and spiritual counseling.

Touched Twice, a national ministry, is headquartered in Wisconsin and has its Kentucky headquarters in Louisville. Shelby Touched Twice was held at First Baptist last year, too.

 “We had a really big crowd,” First Baptist Pastor Steve Rice said. “The rain made it a little challenging for some folks to get here, I’m sure, but I heard that we served over four hundred people, and we had at least that many volunteers. We were busy all day, especially at the dental clinic.”

Shelbyville resident Judy Phillips, a registered nurse at Baptist East in Louisville, who was co-coordinator of the event, said Rice’s estimate is correct.

“We were right within a few numbers of last year,” she said.

Attendance dropped from 485 to 474, but the number of families served rose from 203 to 210.

In 2010, 78 churches of 18 denominations throughout the state participated, and this year the clinic was aided by 76 churches of 15 denominations from 25 cities in Kentucky.

The main difference between this year and last year, Phillips said, is that last year the communities in which church members volunteered were more widespread throughout the state, with even some churches participating from other states.

“Last year we reached as far away as eastern and northern Kentucky, and North Carolina and Florida, and this year it was more of a local volunteer effort,” she said, involving mostly churches in this and surrounding counties.

More than 100 people were lined up for that dental service, provided by two local dentist offices, Pediatric Dentistry of Shelbyville and Mortenson Family Dental.

Diane Yeager, office manager at Mortenson, said 55 people received care at Pediatric Dentistry, and 66 were seen at Mortenson.

“We did a wide variety of treatment, and I think we were able to see most everybody that had been screened over at the church,” she said.

Patients received dental screenings at First Baptist, then were transported over to the dental offices, which were located near each other, for treatment.

Yeager said the treatments were varied.

“We did a lot of extractions, but we also did a lot of restorations,” she said, adding that Pediatric Dentistry saw a lot of children but also took adults, because there were two oral surgeons there who also volunteered their services.

“We worked together on this, and it went great,” she said.

Phillips said that she was very pleased that not just one, but two dentists volunteered their services this year.

“The dental clinic was undoubtedly the greatest need, and they just served in a way that words just can’t explain.”

Phillips said plans are already under way to have the event next year at First Baptist, and Rice said he was very pleased with the way things went and would be pleased to host the event again.

 “This is a great ministry, and we were glad to be a part of it,” he said.

Shelby Touched Twice Clinic – Review by Joy Bolton

  

Below is an article written by Joy Bolton of Kentucky Woman’s Missionary Union. The original article can be viewed on her website here.

Folks in Shelby County are organizing a free one-day clinic to be held on Saturday, April 24.  The primary purpose of this ministry is to meet needs in Christ’s name. Organizers want to meet medical, spiritual, and physical needs of guests who receive services at the clinic.  Services to be offered include medical, dental, optical, haircuts, clothes closet and food pantry.

Judy Phillips, a member of Salem Baptist Church in Shelby Baptist Association, is leading this effort.  She participated in a Touched Twice clinic in Lynch last summer and determined to bring it to Shelbyville.  Touched Twice is a national ministry that organizes clinics.  Learn more about them at http://touchedtwiceunited.org.

Shelby Touched Twice now has a website through Salem Baptist church: http://www.shelbytouchedtwice.com.  Additional volunteers are needed for this effort. If you would like to help with the Shelby Touched Twice effort, please visit the website and register.  Volunteers are needed before the clinic as well as the day of the clinic.

Shelby Touched Twice is collecting non-perishable food, spring and summer clothes, toiletry items for gift bags and Bibles (English and Spanish translations).  STT hopes to send each guest home with a bag of food, toiletry gift bag, Bible and clothes if they wish to receive them.

Shelby Touched Twice is also receiving financial donations for the clinic through Salem Baptist Church.  Please visit the web site for more information.  Or contact STT at: contact@shelbytouchedtwice.com

A significant part of the Shelby Touched Twice story is that about 20 people from Salem participated in the Lynch Touched Twice clinic last year.  That might not seem remarkable, but when you consider that this congregation runs about 80 on Sundays, that number represents 25% of their people. The experience not only made an impact in Lynch, but it has had a profound effect on Salem Baptist Church. Now they are leading the way in organizing the ministry in Shelbyville.  Missions involvement always takes people to a new level spiritually and one touch brings another and another.  It is not just the guests that are touched twice.  So are the missions volunteers.

Want a second touch from the Lord?  Get involved in missions.  You’ll find that you are touched twice, too.

​Shelby Touched Twice Clinic – Review by Joy Bolton