For more than ten years, Holy Trinity Anglican has been serving the residents of Carousel Place, a subsidized housing complex for seniors, by holding regular Bible studies, hosting a luncheon and delivering groceries to the neediest residents. Residents are over the age of 55 and face numerous health and financial issues. It’s a great way to build meaningful relationships and share the love of Christ in simple, tangible ways.

 

OPPORTUNITIES

• Help set up, participate in a resident-led Bible Study and establish relationships with Carousel Place residents. 12:30-2:30pm on the second Thursday of each month, September through May.
• Buy groceries and choose your own hours! Shop for groceries for a resident (and pay for them) and deliver them to a Carousel Place resident with a brief visit to build a relationship.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Lynn Edwards, ledwards1@nc.rr.com

The Encouraging Place seeks to equip people to grow in greater racial awareness and understanding and work toward equality and reconciliation in a safe environment through monthly meetings, conferences, and retreats.

Holy Trinity runs an annual toy drive for their Pride for Parents Christmas Store, which offers low-income parents an opportunity to purchase meaningful gifts for their children.

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Reggie Edwards, 919-649-6287 or redwards@theencouragingplace.org

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Gateway Women’s Care is a local, Christ-centered pregnancy and sexual health resource center, and has served the Triangle area since 1984 (formerly LIFECARE). The ministry is driven by a life-transforming mission: empowering women to choose LIFE for themselves and their unborn children.

 

OPPORTUNITIES

• Serve as a Client Advocate by meeting weekly one-on-one with clients to discuss pregnancy options and provide resources and referrals, education and consultation. Be available for initial training, further on-floor training and commit to a four-hour shift each week. (Both female and male Client Advocates are needed).
• For medical and nurse professionals, volunteer weekly to run pregnancy tests, educate on fetal growth and development, abortion risks and procedures, do ultrasounds, present Woman’s Right to Know education (State of North Carolina mandated pre-abortion education).
• Assist with administrative tasks as needed such as mailings, filing, etc. on a monthly basis.
• Email monthly prayer requests.
• Send out immediate prayer requests for clients while at the center (once/month).
• Assist with campus outreach events.
• Assist with IT and other professional assistance as needed.
• Take your group or family to tour the center or come to an open house to gain a greater awareness of the ministry.
• Host a baby bottle drive to raise awareness and funds for the ministry.
• Host a diaper bag drive as a practical way to support Gateway Women Care’s new mothers who have chosen LIFE.
• Help with service projects on the building and the yard.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Wendy Bonano, 919-873-2440

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Holy Trinity is a partner of the Downtown Faith Coalition of Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. Habitat addresses affordable housing needs by building homes throughout our region. 

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Ben Owens, bennowens@yahoo.com

Jobs for Life (JfL) is a global nonprofit organization that engages and equips the local Church to address the impact of joblessness through the dignity of work. By mobilizing a worldwide network of volunteers committed to applying biblically-based training and mentoring relationships, Jobs for Life helps those in need find dignity and purpose through meaningful work.

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Weekly: JfL classes usually meet twice per week over an 8-week time period. Class sessions last approximately two hours. Sites need mentors (called champions), one per student, who attend classes alongside their students. Instructors may teach all sessions or break the material up among a team of instructors. Volunteers may also provide administrative assistance, prayer support and fill other leadership roles, under the direction of an overall Site Leader (often a volunteer as well). Some sites offer meals and childcare, too.

One time: Business panelists, community resource presenters and mock interviewers are needed once per 16-session class. Champions may fill these roles as well.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Jessie Hathcock, 704-425-3742

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JusticeMatters provides preventive and restorative legal services that protect children and help survivors of human trafficking and other traumas rebuild their lives. We also work for systemic solutions statewide, promoting just policies and practices through advocacy, training and leadership to address the roots and repercussions of human trafficking in North Carolina.

 

OPPORTUNITIES

JusticeMatters is grateful for the many volunteers that have and are currently serving as part of the team. Due to the highly sensitive and confidential nature of our work, many volunteer positions necessitate specialized training.

We have an urgent, ongoing need for volunteer attorneys and law students, especially in the areas of humanitarian law, family law and other civil matters (such as landlord/tenant, consumer debt, housing/foreclosure, SSI/SSD, wills/estates).

In addition, we need volunteer interpreters, for numerous languages, with certain experience and expertise. With the opening of the Raleigh office, we currently have several volunteer needs including administrative support.

Please visit the “Get Involved” tab on our website or contact Charissa Gray at charissa@justicemattersnc.org to discuss whether your gifts match our current needs.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Katie Moye, 919-815-5956 

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The NC Study Center located near UNC-Chapel Hill is a center to cultivate Christian life and thought on campus through hospitality, thoughtfulness and joy. The Center’s priorities are friendship, intellectual growth and community engagement.

 

Since 1994, Neighbor to Neighbor has been laboring to bring the truth and power of the Gospel to some of Raleigh’s poorest and most at-risk neighborhoods through a variety of programs, including after school tutoring, professional mentoring, employment training (in partnership with Jobs for Life), MADHouse Athletics ministry and various other community services and events.

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Mentor

• Math or Language Arts, one hour a week on the day of your choosing.

Coach

• Basketball League, January to May. Games are on Friday nights, practice one day a week.

Teach Enrichment Class

• One hour a week, you choose the class: art, music, sports, STEM.

GED Tutor

• Any morning 9-11am, Monday-Thursday.

Be a Friend

• Stop by the downtown facility any afternoon after school where you can build relationships.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Spencer Hathcock, 919-833-7218

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At Oak City Academy, students love learning so much that they run to school. They are taught to be wise, virtuous and free, and believe every child, regardless of income, is created to flourish. The Christ-centered Montessori school teaches the students how to learn rather than what to learn while weaving God’s attributes into each subject we teach. The goal is that 50% percent of the students come from the low-income community.

 

OPPORTUNITIES

• Read with children in pre-K/K or 1st through 3rd grade class (once a week).
• Help with spelling in 1st through 3rd grade class (once a week).
• Provide one-on-one tutoring with specific children in reading and math (once a week).
• Adopt a teacher by making a meal or bringing a treat for breakfast or snack (once a month).
• Help laminate or refresh handmade curriculum in the classroom.
• Volunteer in the office to help with some administrative duties (one morning a month).
• Share about your profession with the students (30 minutes).
• Share about a place you have traveled pertinent to the continent the children are studying (30 minutes).
• Bring a small group or family to help the teacher with a personal project in the classroom on a Saturday for one to three hours. Children need to be seven years or older.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Danny Breed, 919-815-7742

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Raleigh Rescue Mission was founded in 1961 to minister to the growing needs of homeless and hurting men, women and children in the Raleigh community. It operates out of a large, four-story building located in downtown Raleigh. Its mission is to solve poverty and homelessness, one life at a time, through the redemptive love of Jesus Christ. RRM serves approximately 1,500 persons each year and offers a variety of programs to accomplish its mission. There are many volunteer opportunities in the various programs and fundraising events.

Holy Trinity Anglican has a standing commitment to provide two volunteers to help serve dinner on Tuesday evenings. This effort is coordinated by Holy Trinity Anglican member Rhett Warner hrwwarner@aol.com. Other service opportunities are listed below.

 

IMMEDIATE NEED: COACHES FOR JOBS FOR LIFE CLASS

The Raleigh Rescue Mission 6-step “New Life” program is designed to provide a path to sustainable success for the marginalized in Raleigh. An important element of the New Life program is the 8-week Jobs for Life (JFL) class, and a very important part of the JFL class is having coaches/mentors that participate with the folks going through the class and develop relationships to help mentor them as they go through JFL and the New Life program.

The Rescue Mission needs additional coaches. The next JFL class begins on Mar. 24. The classes meet twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 8 weeks. There are 2 classes each Tuesday and Thursday (7-9 AM and 6-8 PM), if you have flexibility for one or the other of these time slots, this is a rewarding opportunity to serve.

So, what skills do you need to have – well, among other things, a Big Heart, reasonable communication skills, being a good listener, patience, being able to work with people from different backgrounds and a desire to serve.

If you can help, or if you have questions, there is a coach/mentor meeting at Raleigh Rescue Mission on March 10 at 7pm. If you’re interested in signing up, please call John Charlesworth 919-349-0719 or email him at nav53@aol.com.

 

ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES

Food Services – Volunteer

• Weekday Meal Service: Prepare, serve, clean up
  Must be at least 18 years old.

Location: Raleigh Rescue Mission

Days/times:  Monday-Friday, or as noted

• • Breakfast: 
    Prep, serve and clean up on Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 5-8am
  • Lunch: 
    Serve and clean up: Monday-Friday, 11am-12:30pm
  • Dinner: 
    Monday-Friday
    Prep: 2-4pm
    Serve and clean up: 4:45-6:30pm
    Prep, serve and clean up: 2-6:30pm

Mentoring adults, children and families

Tutoring children and adults – math, reading, writing and GED

Childcare at Raleigh Rescue Mission, daytime or evenings while adults are working or taking classes

Computer skills training and help

Work at Raleigh Rescue Mission’s donations store

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Geia William, 919-828-9014 and GeiaW@raleighrescue.org

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Refugee Hope Partners (RHP) is a ministry in Raleigh that exists to love our refugee neighbors with the hope of the gospel in partnership with the local church. The ministry began as a grassroots effort in 2007 when a group of Christians befriended and began serving newly arrived refugee families at Cedar Point Apartments in North Raleigh. Since then, the ministry has grown exponentially, partnering with over 20 churches in the area, organizing as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and gaining recognition as a trusted refugee care organization by resettlement agencies. Its cross-cultural ministry now reaches hundreds of families and refugees from people groups and nations throughout the world who have been resettled in Raleigh.

RHP loves its refugee neighbors by:

• engaging families and individuals as they face cultural, practical and emotional hurdles in adjusting to life in a new country,
• equipping hands, minds and souls for independence with dignity, and
• encouraging healthy relationships and spiritual growth so that all may thrive.

To catch their vision and be inspired to consider how you can serve creatively, watch their video.

 

ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES (including during COVID-19)

There are many regular, daily opportunities to volunteer in person through RHP’s many programs, including the following. If you’d like to get connected to other RHP volunteers, contact Daniel at dlee@htcraleigh.org.

• Homework Help
• Early Learning Club
• Adult ESL
• Medical Ministry
• Bible Studies
• The Bridge

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Jennifer Taylor, jennifer@refugeehopepartners.org or localoutreach@htcraleigh.org

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With Love from Jesus (WLFJ) is committed to helping the local church meet the practical needs of our neighbors in Raleigh. WLFJ is currently ministering to over 4,000 families each month in addition to assisting many other ministries with helpful resources for their outreach. The distribution of food, household items, clothing, furniture, computers and vehicles provides the opportunity to share the love of Christ to the community.

Holy Trinity Anglican has a standing commitment to serve at WLFJ on the 4th Saturday of the month. This effort is coordinated by Holy Trinity Anglican members Ellen and John Wardlaw, EWardlaw@msn.com. Other service opportunities are listed below:

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Weekly: Volunteer opportunities for weekly commitments or on the spot service Monday through Saturday 9am-2pm. Commitments for once a week regular service are a great blessing.
Monthly: Specific day or days of the month to serve from 9:10am-12:30pm is very helpful. Assist with prayers, bag items, direct traffic, etc.
One time: Anyone from a partnering church is welcome to drop in to serve without attending a volunteer orientation class first.
Group or Family Opportunities:

• Activity: hanging clothes, stocking shelves, assisting honored guests, prayer
• Number of hours needed: Mon-Sat. 9am-2pm. Small children usually enjoy a short service time in the beginning (1 ½ to 2 hrs).
• All are welcome. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

 

MINISTRY PARTNER CONTACT: Linda Williams, 919-233-8010 

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