Serve Opportunities

Are you an individual interested in giving a few hours of your time?
Maybe a Connect Group looking for somewhere to serve?

Below are local organizations that can use our help as they reach out to those in need in our community.

If you serve with any of the partners below or one not listed, let us know! We'd love to know what you did and your thoughts on your volunteer time. Fill out our short form HERE.

The Salvation Army - White Center

For more information on serving with the Salvation Army, visit their volunteer website.
Volunteer Information
Hope Market (Free Client Choice Food Bank):
  • Organizing donation items.
  • Stocking food bank.
  • Breaking down boxes in our warehouse (we’ve been low-staffed and we’ve acquired a build-up.

After-School Program:
  • School pick-up drivers.
  • Tutors.
  • Special activity leaders (people to lead cooking classes, sports classes, hobbies, etc.)
  • We have had some difficulty staffing our after-school program. If you have any college students at your church who are looking for a part-time job to get some education and youth experience, please let me know and we can send them the link to apply.

Union Gospel Mission

Opportunities exist to assist men and women working to overcome addiction and homelessness by serving meals, mentoring, and sorting donations. For more information on serving with Union Gospel Mission, visit their volunteer website.
Volunteer Information
  • Mentoring
  • Women & Children’s Shelter
  • Hope Place
  • Bring a meal

SafeFutures Youth Center

For more information on serving with SafeFutures Youth Center, visit their volunteer website.
Volunteer Information
  • Transportation Assistance: Volunteers can help provide safe transportation for students attending events, field trips, or programs at the center, ensuring accessibility for all participants.

  • Event Support Volunteers: Help with setting up, running, and cleaning up after events like Teen Nights or other community gatherings. This could involve managing food stands, assisting with games, or decorating.  

  • Street Crossing Guards and Bus Stop Monitors: As a Street Crossing Guard, you'll assist students in safely crossing busy streets near schools and community centers. Bus Stop Monitors will stand with students as they wait for the bus, offering a reassuring adult presence to ensure a safe and secure environment, particularly during the dark winter months or in areas with heavy traffic.

  • Summer Volunteers: Volunteers to help support our summer activities during summer programming. Ensuring student safety and eyes on students while we are on field trips.  

West Seattle Food Bank

Opportunities exist in the warehouse, mobile distribution sites, and the Clothesline. For more information on serving with the West Seattle Food Bank, visit their volunteer website.
Volunteer Information
  • Food Bank - in-person, home deliveries, mobile sites
  • Clothesline
  • Pet Pantry
  • Fundraising

White Center Food Bank

For more information on serving with the White Center Food Bank, visit their volunteer website.
Volunteer Information
High Needs Starting ASAP:
  • 9am-noon, Grocery Rescue - temporary role through Nov/Dec while a regular volunteer is out for surgery.
  • 9am-12:30pm, 11am-1pm or 12:30-4pm Warehouse support Wednesdays
  • 11am-1pm or 12:30-4pm Warehouse support Thursdays
  • 9:45am-noon or 11:45am-2pm Grocery Store support Fridays
  • Tuesday Mobile Food Bank 10am-1:30pm, every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. This volunteer will serve at the food bank and an offsite location. Help staff load a food bank van with a bunch of delicious food, then hop in the van and ride over to a local senior or low-income housing facility to distribute food in their community room! We need a particularly reliable person in this role willing to commit to at least six months of service to start.
  • Various Times. Become part of our pool of on-call substitute volunteers! Step in at least once a month into a shift that needs some support when our regular weekly volunteers call out.
  • Evening or weekend support with events or gleaning (learn more to get started in Spring 2025!).
  • 2-4pm, Clean up on Wednesdays or Thursdays.

High needs Starting in December - to assist with expanded holiday store hours! 
  • 9:45am-12pm Mondays - Set Up & Grocery Store Clerks opening shift
  • 1:45-4pm Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays - Grocery Store Clerks closing shift & Clean Up

World Relief

For more information on serving with World Relief, visit their volunteer website.
Volunteer Information
There are many ways to become involved at World Relief:

  • A Welcome Kit Drive is always a good way to get people involved that is fairly low-risk for people.  Newly arrived refugee families must rebuild their entire household, so to receive a kit with linens, flatware, cleaning supplies, pillows, and more is truly a blessing.

  • We have many one-time serve opportunities for individuals and for groups, including working in our community garden (which usually offers the opportunity to interact with resettled refugees), helping a family move out of temporary housing into permanent housing, and many more.

  • A good opportunity for ongoing volunteering for members of the congregation who want to take that step is to become a Weekly Needs Volunteer.  This is an a la carte option where volunteers can see the needs of the week and choose one that fits into their schedule. This can be driving a refugee to an appointment at DSHS, delivering groceries to a newly arrived family, picking up a refugee family from the airport when they first arrive, and many more.  Weekly Need Volunteers commit to volunteering twice a month, at their own pace, with WRWW.

  • Finally, Hosting Home Support Teams and Good Neighbor Teams are bigger commitments to walk alongside a refugee family for 6 weeks – 6 months helping to welcome them and truly help them to feel rooted in community.  I would love to talk further with you about this if you are interested.