Care volunteers support the program participants and staff directly. You could help with transportation to and from appointments and home organization.

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, etc.

Directly assist the kitchen staff in various food preparation, cooking, cleaning tasks, and learn basic food safety procedures to ensure the kitchen remains efficient in creating and serving meals to our residents and guests.

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

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.

During our pantry hours pray for those who request prayer, interceding for those who don’t request prayer, and interceding for our pantry to have an abundance for those in need of food.

Work alongside staff to serve and befriend their guests who need a place to get warm in the winter.

Counseling; running groups in personal technology, substance abuse, parenting, legal support, spiritual development; mentorship; maintaining the facility by cleaning up, making coffee, and running errands; and shuttling members to appointments with partner service providers.

Greeting patients, answering phones, setting up appointments, giving patients resource kits. Generally, for in office volunteers, women are preferred because of the nature of the ministry.

To participate in the recovery ministry, it requires training with our recovery director. Once through the application process and trained, recovery leaders lead bible studies for men and women who have had abortions, were victims of sexual trauma or who have experienced child loss. Female leaders are welcome and we are always looking to add male leaders.

Putting together resource packs, helping with clerical work. Generally, for in office volunteers, women are preferred because of the nature of the ministry.

Third Saturday of every month, meeting with other volunteers to get to know the program until ministry in prisons is resumed (paused because of COVID-19)

3 _ day weekend ministry trip with about 30 other Christians from other churches around the state to visit one of five prisons in the state. Once visits are allowed again, team preparation meetings will take place the six Saturday mornings prior to the weekend trip. Meetings will be held either on Zoom or Covenant Church in Easton, and the prison to be visited will be communicated in the meetings.

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

Prepare a meal to serve 45-50 people, including a main protein, vegetable, starch, small green salad, and dessert.

Shopping for materials (mulch, flowers, leaf bags, gloves, etc.) and then raking, weeding, planting, and other landscaping activities to make the garden beautiful!

Data entry in the development and intake office.

Mechanical help for broken down cars.

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.

Making and delivering food for 53 men.

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.

Urban Impact serves food to their students at each of their weeknight events. They need people to deliver hot meals (homemade or ordered) Mondays – Thursday that will feed 35 people. Help once a year or once a week.

Prime Time is a Christian Mentoring Program for students grades 6-8. 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.

Prime Time Junior is a Christian Mentoring Program for students grades 3-5. 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.