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Local Mission Volunteers
Opportunities to Volunteer with Local Mission Partner and Ministries
Christian Literacy Associates
Bill Kofmehl
drliteracy@aol.com
Tutors can help children, adults, or prisoners to learn to read. Training is provided several times each year. College students or other adults are needed to help with their summer reading camps for children (for 6 weeks – part time).
China Outreach Ministries
Ken Wagoner
wagonken@libcom.com
Volunteers can help with the annual Labor Day retreat for over 300 Chinese scholars. Helpers are needed to prepare/serve meals and to provide childcare.
Family Guidance
412-741-8550
www.familyguidance.net
Volunteers are needed for their One-to-One (big brother and big sister) program or to be paired with a single mother in their EMBRACE Program. Training is provided
Hosanna Industries
724-770-0262
www.hosannaindustries.org
Groups or individuals (skilled or unskilled) can help with one-day (or one week) work projects to build homes (or to repair homes) for those in need.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Chloe Papke
chloe.papke@gmail.com
If you have an interest in college students, contact Chloe about volunteer opportunities in Pittsburgh.
Light of Life Ministries
Please see the complete list at the bottom of this page.
Mosaic Community Church
412-321-3911
Serve at this Northside Church for six months (or more) in the areas of children’s ministry, music, adult education, youth ministry, technology, etc.
North Hills Youth Ministry Counseling Center
412-366-1300
www.nhymcc.org
Tutors/mentors are needed in all subjects (for all grades) for 1-2 hours/week. Training is provided and no experience is necessary. Office volunteers are needed to answer phones and to help with mailings and office tasks. Book sale volunteers and books are needed for the annual used book sale fund-raiser that is held each June at the Northway Mall. In the fall, volunteers are also needed for the annual Golf Classic.
The Pittsburgh Project
412-321-1678
www.pittsburghproject.org
• Tutors are needed one day per week (M–F, from 4–5 or 5–6 p.m.) for the after-school program. A training session is provided.
• Small groups, families, and college students can participate in their weekend service retreats, which are held several times per year. Participants stay at The Project and help with home repairs for those in need.
Pregnancy Care Centers
724-935-6411 (Wexford Center)
• Donations of maternity clothes, baby clothes, baby furniture, and baby care items are always needed. A small group can hold a “baby shower” for an unknown PCC client. Group members bring baby gifts to the small group
“shower” which are then donated to the PCC.
• The annual Walk-for-Life fund-raiser is held at North Park.
• Volunteers are needed to counsel women facing crisis pregnancies. Training is provided. Hotline workers, parent support visitors, and receptionists are needed.
• The Centers accept donations of restroom items and coffee, tea, and cocoa to be used for clients. Children’s picture Bibles and Hope Bibles for women are also accepted.
PRISM
Pittsburgh Region International Student Ministries
412-683-0342
www.prismpgh.org
• Families or individuals can host a student for one year. This involves contacting the student once a month. Families or individuals can host a student for just a Thanksgiving or Easter meal.
• The annual Garage Giveaway is in late August. Donations of household items and furniture are needed (especially desks, beds, lamps, dishes and linens). Bring items to Memorial Park on the Wednesday and Thursday before the Giveaway. Volunteers are needed to transport the items to Oakland on Thursday evening. Help is also needed on Saturday to greet International students receiving items and to help them to transport items from Bellefield Church to apartments in Oakland.
World Mission Initiative
412-362-5610 (Don Dawson)
www.worldmissioninitiative.org
WMI holds a monthly Mission Fellowship gathering at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Missionaries from around the world share about what God is doing in their part of the world.
World Vision Distribution Center
412-749-1800
Groups are needed to help to sort donations made by corporate donors for distribution to World Vision’s ministries around the world. Saturday mornings are a very popular time to volunteer.
Young Life
Greater North Hills – Jessica Shamblee
itsallllgood828@yahoo.com
Young Life always needs volunteers, especially college students and young adults, to help with their weekly Club meetings for teenagers. Volunteers are also needed to serve as committee members and to assist with fund-raisers and other special events.
Light of Life Ministries
412-258-6100
www.lightoflife.org
See the website for even more ideas.
• Provide Newcomer Packages (toiletries for men) or Holiday Gift Packages (toiletries, cookies, candy etc.) for the family assistance program.
• Provide sheets (single beds), blankets, pillowcases, towels, or men’s clothing (hats, gloves, socks, etc.) for the men in the overnight shelter. New and used coats are collected in October.
• Children’s clothing (coats, hats, gloves, etc.), toys, & baby clothes/items are needed.
• The Community Resource Center (915 Western Ave.) accepts (and picks up) donations of furniture, clothing and non-perishable food items.
Call 412-322-9529.
• Groups or individuals are needed to serve lunch meals at the Mission (and to senior citizen high rises) on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Good Friday. Call at least six weeks ahead. Volunteers are also needed to serve breakfast and dinner. Meals are served seven days per week from 8:00–9:00 a.m. and 5:00–6:00 p.m., plus set-up and clean-up. Volunteers must be age 12 and over, and those under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
• Provide childcare for women in the family assistance program from 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday. Tutor adults preparing for GED exams (on Monday evenings for men and Thursday evening for women). Men can serve as shelter assistants (welcoming new men) from 6:00–9:00 p.m.
