Volunteer Opportunities
Street Outreach and Ministries
- Mobile Resource Center: Tuesdays 9am-Noon, Tompkins Square Park serving food, drink, clothes, referrals and encouraging the poor and homeless.
- Prayer Station: Saturdays 9am-1pm, Flushing, Main St. (In front of library) – being available on the street to engage in meaningful conversation with all who are interested and offer prayer to any who are willing. An application is needed prior to serving.
- Beautiful One: outreach to women in the sex industry. Application and Training Required. In great need of Mandarin Speaking volunteers.
Skilled Volunteers
Street LIFE Ministries is looking for skilled volunteers in the following areas:
- Grant Writing
- Fund Raising
- Social Work
- Computer Technology/Troubleshooting/Web Development
- Multimedia Presentations
- Maintenance work (plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc…)
- Translators especially in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean
"Behind the Scenes" Volunteers
Office Work:It includes but is not limited to:
- Filing/Paperwork: Typing and organizing recipes used for our Sunday night “King’s Fellowship”
- Help with inventory work: organizing sheds & closets, t-shirts, CDs & various promotional materials, and stamping various outreach materials
- Donation organization: process clothing & coat donations, help bag “care packs” which we bring to the homeless, and help unload and stock monthly food order items
- Mass mailing: stuffing envelopes, stamping them etc.
Cooking:
- Friday morning and Sunday late afternoon help with food preparation for our Sunday night “King’s Fellowship” meeting.
- Help with early morning (usually Tuesday or Wednesday) soup preparation for the homeless outreach
Yard Work:
- Maintaining & helping with the landscape around the facility: raking, bagging, weeding, trimming, sweeping, and yard pick-up
- Seasonal snow shoveling
- Extra Projects like painting the iron fence around the property and replacing broken wooden trap doors
- Maintaining & helping with the landscape around the facility: raking, bagging, weeding, trimming, sweeping, and yard pick-up
Cleaning:
- Help with various hospitality projects and cleaning around the facility