We have lots of volunteer opportunities! This page will feature our most up-to-date needs. You can learn more about our local global mission on the Missions page. Read more below about how you can help or email Pam Parmley and she can help you find a place. These opportunities may change as the situation changes, and those updates will be shared via The Echo and the News + Events page.
We have been asked to collect Meal Kits again! We are sending 25 kits each week.
Lawson Early Childhood School needs meals to send home to families. Lawson is part of McKinney ISD and houses Early Head Start, Head Start, Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE), Pre-Kindergarten, and Preschool Language programs.
We’ve made shopping easier! Shop our Amazon list for each week’s meal kit. This week you can purchase the ingredients for minestrone soup! A new meal kit list will be posted each Thursday. We will pack and put recipes with the kits. Want to help? Email Caitlin.
Lunch Bunch is packing 50 sacks each week to feed neighborhood kids! We are working in partnership with La Tiendita. We need individually wrapped items. You can shop our Amazon wishlist and items will be delivered to the church. Or you can shop and drop off food. Here are the items needed: fruit cups, peanut butter crackers, individual cereal (cups or bags), oatmeal (pouches or cups), meat sticks (like Slim Jims), mini muffins (individual bags), granola bars, and shelf stable milk boxes (like Horizon). Drop items off at the church any time and Lunch Bunch will assemble the sacks.
You can help pack the sacks on Wednesdays at 11 in the Conference Room. Or click here to make a financial donation and we will purchase boxed milk, sacks, and extra food! Email Caitlin for more information.
Lunch Bunch started as lunches for our unsheltered friends, and it still makes lunches and supports MEOWS.
Compassion Closet: Clothing distribution at Feeding Friends and Family
Compassion Closet gives new or gently used clothes to our neighbors in need downtown.
Our closet is FULL!! Thank you for your generosity! Please hold your items until we request more or we recommend donating to Samaritan Inn’s Inn Style Resale shop.
You can drop by Mission Headquarters at the church to sort clothes each Tues/Thurs morning from 9-11am. You can also volunteer to work on Saturdays (2nd and 4th Saturdays 9:30-11am in the Parlor) and Thursdays (3rd and 5th at 4pm) for clothing distribution.
English as a Second Language Ministry
Our church offers ESL classes! We have helped hundreds of English language learners from dozens of different countries develop valuable communication skills. You don’t need teaching experience or knowledge of languages to help. Just a willing spirit and free time on Wednesday nights. If you’re interested in helping with our upcoming Fall semester, click here to email Pastor Ed. Or click here to learn more about our ESL ministry.