How You Can Help

How You Can Help

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Financial assistance is needed for us to continue meeting the spiritual and social needs of our neighborhood children.

Your financial support means so very much to these children. Please help us to make a difference in their lives.

In-kind donations of school supplies, personal care products, cleaning products, gloves, mittens, socks, food items, kitchen supplies, board games, etc. are needed. Please contact us for a current list of items needed.

If God leads you to give to our ministry, we accept your gift with deep thanks and look forward to serving with you.

Volunteers Are Needed

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A program like ours has special needs. We depend on volunteers and the children depend on us. What better way to show children they are loved and cherished than to serve them a nourishing meal in a safe, love filled Christian place?

If you possess our belief in God's love for children and are capable of transferring this belief to them, we would love to have you as a volunteer.

The following volunteer positions are available:

Computer Assistant — Duties include assisting children with educational software.

Craft Monitor — Must enjoy working with construction paper, crayons, markers, scissors, old magazines, glue, glitter, and Popsicle sticks. Duties may also include repeating that age-old phrase: "Don't run with scissors!"

Game Player — Must enjoy playing a variety of board games such as Candy Land, Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, Battleship, Aggravation, Operation, etc- Duties also include playing card games such as Go Fish, Old Maid, Crazy Eight's, etc.

Greeter — Duties include greeting children as they arrive and asking the following questions: "How are you today," "What did you learn at school today," "Are you hungry," etc.

Homework Assistant — Must have basic skills in Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic and enjoy helping children become successful students.

Play dough Monitor — Must enjoy working with play dough, cookie cutters, rolling pins, etc.

Scorekeeper/Coach — Must be able to coach and keep score of basketball, air-hockey, foosball, and other such games.

Storyteller — Must enjoy reading a variety of storybooks to children. Duties may include holding small children in your lap while reading to them-

Teacher — Duties similar to those of a Sunday School or Bible School teacher- Must be able to teach the children of God's love through songs, games, crafts, etc.

Opportunities for Groups

In addition to providing warm meals, love, and safety to our neighborhood children, we are developing spiritual leaders in our volunteers. Several youth groups have participated in our program- This provides them with hands on training for the mission fields- These young people are learning, from our example, ways to dedicate their lives in service to others. girls with eggs

The feed back from these groups is very positive. If your group or organization would like to participate in our mission, we would love to have you.

We of course realize that your own busy schedule and the times we operate may conflict, however you can still provide support to our ministry by joining our prayer program, hosting food drives, collecting various supplies, and fundraising.

Pray For Us

childrenAs we stated previously, our children live in the midst of crime and violence- Many of the children's prayer requests were to stop the violence. These requests are from an 11- year-old boy who wants your prayers for the following:

  1. Stop the shooting in the schools.
  2. Stop children from fighting.
  3. Make children become better in school.
  4. Make gangs more mature toward each other.
  5. Pray for my whole family and make sure they become better and better.