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

Ways to Pray for Us

E.M. Bounds says...

Pray for Skilled Volunteers/Staff

Pray for More Staff and Interns

“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.” – E.M.Bounds

Truly it is the prayers of friends like you that will accomplish much on behalf of the City of Nations. So please pray for more “called and committed” intercessors for SLM.

Pray for More Staff and Interns

Pray for Skilled Volunteers/Staff

Pray for More Staff and Interns

Some prayer points:

Those called to 24/7 Worship and Intercession, musicians/singers for the streets
Individuals who have a passion for the Lord, prayer, His Word and for evangelism
Long term staff: families & singles
Believers who have a desire to reach specific "people groups", ethnicities, or cultures
To have "divine" connections and alignments with those whom God would speak to
Servants who speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Spanish, or other languages (full-time or as a volunteer)

Pray for Skilled Volunteers/Staff

Some skills that would be helpful to SLM:

Administrative Assistant, Accountant
Computer "Tech" person
Marketing Strategist
Step Van Director and more Step Van Staff/Team to serve the homeless, poor, and destitute
Social Worker
Grant Writers

Pray for Finances

Pray for Ministry Opportunities

Pray for Skilled Volunteers/Staff

Grant Writers
"Market Place” Ministers to come alongside us
New Foundations, Churches, Businessmen, and donors to invest their time and resources in SLM
To have "divine" connections and alignments with those whom God would speak to.
Creative ways to raise funds for ongoing needs and for expansion of SLM projects
More monthly partners
Release of major funding
Release of The King's Center for Urban Ministries through funding, and/or donation of a building

Pray for Ministry Opportunities

The King’s Fellowship - for those invited from outreach locations to come and for those who come to grow and mature in Christ
For the homeless and poor that we minister at Tompkins Square Park through the Mobile Resource Center
For the ladies at the massage parlors and strip clubs that we minister in the human trafficking outreach named Beautiful One.
For friendships to be formed through Greater Love Outreach which would lead to sharing the love of God and truth of His Word
For open hearts of those we talk and pray with at the Prayer Station Outreach

Pray for Teams

Pray for Ministry Opportunities

For release of more teams, especially in the summer
For more college and school teams throughout the year
For participants in our Brazil Outreach in the summer
For Worship/Warfare Week to be filled with participants
Pray for the participants who come with a team for outreach

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