Assisting with registering community guests, unloading food rescue deliveries, packing produce bags for distribution, stocking shelves and refrigerators, helping the community guests through the pantry, helping community guests find more specific items, helping community guests carry their bags, and praying over guests, etc.

Once a month, serve with a team from Black Rock to host a game night with the BRM residents.

Prepping food to help support the success of meals being served to our residents and community guests. Tasks can include but not be limited to pre-meal preparation, serving food, sanitation measures, clearing tables, interacting with the community, and engaging with our community.

More volunteer opportunities coming soon. Sign up to join the interest list!

Meet with a full time member of HomeBridge two times per week. Help your mentee connect with resources, set up personal budgets, and guide them through the program. Training provided for this role.

Once a month, a group of women gather together at Black Rock to knit and crochet baby blankets for the mothers and babies supported by Hopeline. If you have this skill, this team would love to have you!

Greeting patients, answering phones, setting up appointments, giving patients resource kits, and helping with clerical work. Generally, for in office volunteers, women are preferred because of the nature of the ministry. Nursing volunteers or Spanish and Portuguese volunteers are a major need.

Hopeline provides Biblical healing for men and women who have experienced abortion, who have been victims of sexual trauma, and who have walked through child loss. Men and women who are interested in becoming a facilitator must apply and go through an interview process. Thorough training will be provided. Spanish and Portuguese speaking volunteers are a major need.

On the third Saturday of every month, volunteers meet virtually to pray for incarcerated men, women, and youth. They also pray for the corrections officers and prison administrators. Until the prisons reopen to Kairos, these meetings are a means of honoring Kairos’ commitment to pray for God’s forgotten children and introduce the ministry to people who may be interested in serving.

ON HOLD while we await permission from the state to reenter the prisons. If you would like to join an interest list for once the retreats resume, follow the link below.

Three and a half day weekend retreat with about thirty other Christians from other churches around the state. Retreats are held at five of the sixteen CT prisons. Team preparation requires 36 hours of training. Team meetings begin 6 – 8 weeks before the retreat weekend.

Kairos Outside provides a safe place for women whose lives have been impacted by incarceration. Kairos Outside encourages and supports its guests through the transforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ. The next retreat is taking place September 13-15. Day angels are needed to help with transportation and last minute errands.

Provide treats for Food Pantry patrons such as cookies, brownies, muffins, etc., baked in batches of a half dozen, labeled with ingredients.

Prepare a lunch to serve 20 people including a main protein, a side, and a dessert. More details provided after sign up. Delivery will take place on Monday between 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.

Volunteers are needed at PEHT’s social enterprise which is a retail store in Bridgeport. Tasks may include helping to make products, packings products, engageing in positive conversation with the employed survivors, etc. All volunteers must complete a full training session. Sign up to get on the list for the next training.

Cooking and serving a meal at Pivot. On every third Thursday of the month, a team from Black Rock heads down to Pivot to cook a meal in their kitchen. They get to serve the residents and eat alongside them. If there is lots of interest, we will expand to do more days.

Work under the direction of a teacher as a classroom helper or tutor, helping students with various subjects either individually or in a group as needed.

Prime Time is a Christian Mentoring Program for students grades 3-8. The hope is that volunteers who come out will connect and share their faith with their mentees. During Prime Time Sessions a gospel message is shared and mentors will be expected to help their mentees understand the message and process it so the students can grow in their faith. The kids also engage in a variety of recreational activities. The mentors will be expected to engage with the kids and talk with them about school, life and the gospel.

XLR8 is a homework/tutoring program. Volunteers will be expected to help the student who is assigned to them with their homework. In some cases they may need to tutor the student in math/literacy because the student may not understand the assigned work. There is also a recreational portion of the program that the mentors will be asked to engage in. Mentors are expected to put in an effort to build relationships with the students.