Volunteer Information
Guidelines For Volunteering
We are so glad you want to volunteer with us! We can do so much more together. We work together as a team to feed, care, and minister to God's precious people experiencing homelessness.
We ask that all volunteers to be compassionate and respectful to our friends experiencing homelessness. All volunteers must sign a waiver prior to volunteering.
Please greet everyone with a smile, and spread kindness like confetti. We want them to feel welcomed, loved, and cared for. We want to build a community around them. We want them to know that they matter and we support them.
Please note we require groups of volunteers (IF JOINING TOGETHER) to come in groups NO LARGER than 10.
Please wear gloves when handling food. We love to pour out our love through delicious hot food, hydrating drinks, savory snacks for later, and necessary hygiene products. We want their cups (in this case bags) to overflow!
Please do not photograph or video the people we serve.
This is a family environment so there are no age requirements. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds, religions, and experiences.
You do not have to bring anything or be anything - JUST COME!
HOW TO VOLUNTEER
SIGN UP HERE
WHAT TO EXPECT
Introduce yourself to our ministry leader! Her name is Raquel!
Grab a pair of gloves before participating in handing out items to our friends!
You can decide where you would like to serve! We will help along the way so you will be given direction by one of our core volunteers! (pictures of all core volunteers on page labeled "About us")
We want to keep the safety of all volunteers top priority! Please do not walk around Presidio and or Lancaster without someone alongside you!
Unloading tables, bagging plates and handing out hand sanitizer before meals. Preparing galloons of gatorade at drink station.
Folding, organizing clothing table.
Finding shoe sizes for men, women and children.
VOLUNTEER ASSIGNMENTS
Unload tables and chairs
Offer hand sanitizing wipes
Hand out drinks
Serve food
Offer hygiene products
Distribute snacks
Organize and fold clothes & shoes
Pray for our friends
Share the gospel
Clean up
Be a friend
Build a tent
Cut hair
Live worship
Sunday Set Up :
Before serving :
You do not need to bring anything. We recommend leaving purses, phones, personal items, etc in your locked vehicle.
Serving :
The leadership team will signal the volunteers when we can start serving. We want the food line to be an easy process for everyone involved. We will provide the necessary plates, cups, forks, and serving utensils. Please greet everyone with a warm smile, offer them choices, and address them by name. We encourage volunteers to be kind, friendly, and talk to our friends experiencing homelessness.
The first person in the line is a greeter with name tags, followed by hand sanitizer, and someone offering bags. Everyone gets a bag to keep their things and throw away their trash.
Star organizes the clothing and shoe donations. We like to organize the clothes so our friends can pick out what they would like to take with them.
We want to leave the area better than when we arrived. Please help us clean as we serve.
Finishing Up :
It takes us about an hour to serve the majority of the people. Lancaster is a very busy street so we prepare the rest of the food in to go plates and foil wrap, because people come even as we are driving away.
We close in prayer after we finish feeding, cutting hair, and cleaning up.
We do not like to waste any food. If we have food left over then we will donate it to Funky Town Fridge. Volunteers can eat and enjoy the food, drinks, and snacks as well.
Keep in mind :
Please consider that many of our friends experiencing homelessness suffer from mental illness and addictions before volunteering. The people we serve are typically very grateful but sometimes they have bad days. This is not to say that it is dangerous to serve but please be mindful and contact the leadership team to intervene if you do not feel comfortable. We want everyone on both sides of the table to feel safe and welcomed. This is a very sad and heart breaking reality of the people we serve. Join us in praying for breakthrough, for lives to be changed, and true repentance.
