IN OUR COMMUNITY
A Child’s Place
P.O. Box 33302
Charlotte, NC 28233
704-343-3790
www.achildsplace.org
Contact: Laurie Schwartz
Mission: A Child's Place is a community organization which works in collaboration with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to provide support and to advocate for the 2800 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students (and their families) who are homeless.
Service: A Child’s Place provides education programs, support services (food, clothing, medical, dental, etc.) and advocates for children and their families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteer opportunities include: tutoring, providing snacks, assisting with fundraisers, or helping families move into their new home. If you’d like to help with homeless children, volunteer assignments can also be tailored according to your available time and interests. Sharing the message and need for A Child’s Place can be achieved by joining the Speaker’s Bureau or by inviting an ACP representative to speak at your civic group.
Ada Jenkins Center
P.O. Box 1842 – 212 Gamble Street
Davidson, NC 28036
704-869-0471
www.adajenkins.org
Contact: Georgia Krueger, Executive Director
Mission: To improve the quality of life for the residents of our communities through the integrated delivery or health, education and human services.
Service: Ada Jenkins serves as DUMC's primary link to other social service agencies and health, education and human service ministries. Ada Jenkins Center offers tutoring; free medical, dental and counseling clinics; social workers; emergency financial assistance; Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry; Free clothing at Lydia's Loft; ESL Classes, Latino Support Services; and "Project Jobs" which is designed to help people to get back on their feet economically. Their after school tutoring and enrichment program serves approximately 60 children.
Other Information: Separate from our financial donation, DUMC provides a large number of volunteers, healthy snacks for this program on Thursdays and Fridays for the entire academic year, and year-round donations to the food pantry.
Volunteer Needs: Many opportunities available; call them to see where you can plug-in.
Angels and Sparrows Soup Kitchen
14231 Market Square Drive, C2, #200
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-918-0122
www.angelsandsparrows.org
Contact: Sandra Tilley, Executive Director
Mission: To provide food, nourishment and a sense of community for persons affected by hunger in Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson and N. Mecklenburg County.
Service: Angels and Sparrows opened in October of 2008 with the help of more than 300 volunteers and serves lunch to anyone in need.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers are needed to help prepare and serve meals.
Appalachian Service Project, Inc.
United States of America
4523 Bristol Highway
Johnson city, TN 37601-2937
423-854-4420
www.ASPhome.org
Contact: Susan Crow
Mission: To foster human development by addressing the housing needs of Central Appalachia.
Service: They make homes warmer, safer, and drier for families in need in Central Appalachian Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia by repairing their homes free of charge through volunteer labor.
Charlotte Rescue Mission
P.O. Box 33000
Charlotte, NC 28233-3000
704-334-4635 ext. 238
www.charlotterescuemission.org
Contact: Missy Dickinson
Mission: To provide an intensive drug and alcohol recovery program to men and women. They also help the Emergency Winter Shelter by providing meals for the homeless.
Service: They offer shelter, food for the body and soul, and rehabilitation services.
Volunteer Needs: The Mission has a variety of ongoing individual and group volunteer opportunities. These include the Meal at the Mission project and our tutoring program. They also have a continuous need for groups to collect items such as canned goods, clothing, toiletries and over-the-counter medications.
Community Food Rescue
500 B Spratt Street
Charlotte, NC 28206
704-335-4324
www.secondharvestmetrolina.org
Contact: Shay Merritt
Mission: To feed hungry people by soliciting and distributing food and other grocery products through partner agencies and to educate people in the community about the nature of and solutions to the problems of hunger.
Service: The trucks collect and distribute food which would otherwise be thrown away. We house a Community Food Rescue truck in our parking lot and have a volunteer base of over 20 drivers who faithfully drive the route.
Other Information: Approximately 3 million pounds of food are "rescued" each year locally.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers are always needed to sort food and assist with other projects. Food Drives and special collections are appreciated at anytime. DUMC has one food rescue truck that is driven by volunteers.
Crisis Assistance Ministry
500-A Spratt Street
Charlotte, NC 28206
704-371-3001 ext. 113
www.crisisassistance.org
Contact: Carol Hardison
Mission: To provide assistance and advocacy for people in financial crisis while helping them move toward self-sufficiency.
Service: Crisis Assistance offers emergency financial assistance (rent or utilities), a free store for "home essentials", and economic self-sufficiency program.
Other Information: Children make up 42 percent of the Crisis Assistance's client pool. In 2008, Crisis Assistance assisted 42,334 people who were facing homelessness or utility loss. Especially helpful is that there is a satellite office at the Ada Jenkins Center. The free store helped almost 30,000 people and the furniture and appliance program assisted 3,651 people in 2008. A total of 71,000 people were helped by crisis assistance in 2008!
Volunteer Needs: Over 30% of the work performed at Crisis Assistance Ministry is performed by volunteers. Some of these opportunities include furniture pick-ups, client interviews, inspecting clothing and household donations, filing, mentoring and more.
Cuddle Quilts
P.O. Box 718
Davidson, NC 28036
704-892-8277
wattsbanjo@bellsouth.net
Contact: Angela Watts
Mission: To make lap/crib size quilts for children at Hembry Children’s Hospital.
Volunteer Needs: Knitters of all experience levels are always welcomed.
Davidson Clergy Center
455 South Main Street #210
Davidson, NC 28036
704-895-8162
www.clergyfund.org
Contact: Gordon Jacobs
Mission: To provide clergy with resources for renewal - it is founded on the belief that real people are called to the ministry, people who have the same strengths and weaknesses as those they serve.
Service: DUMC funds go to the Clergy Renewal Fund that provides scholarships for Clergy in need of help, but who could otherwise not afford it.
Other Information: These funds will give two clergy scholarships to enter the Davidson Clergy Center and get the care they need.
Davidson Community Garden
Catawba Avenue and Potts Street, Davidson
The garden was created on a plot of land that belongs to Davidson College, and has been financed by Davidson United Methodist Church.
Volunteer gardeners have been gathering to work on Wednesday evenings and Saturdays, watering, pulling weeds and performing other tasks at the site. Volunteers are organized into about a dozen “Green Thumb Crews” that are each be responsible for garden maintenance for a week per season.
A wide variety of vegetables, melons and berries are being grown though organic methods in raised bed plots and rows. Founded on the motto “Tend Some, Take Some, Share a Lot,” the garden’s yield is available to those who work it, as well as patrons of the food pantry.
Anyone interested in joining a crew should contact Connie Beach at beachclub@mi-connection.com.
Davidson-Cornelius Daycare Center
(North Mecklenburg Child Development Association)
242 Gamble Street
Davidson, NC 28036
704-892-1228
davidsondaycare@aol.com
Contact: Courtenay O'Neil
Mission: Believing that early education and nurturing is critical to breaking the cycle of poverty, we run a top quality daycare.
Service: This local day care facility provides the highest quality child care for children of working parents regardless of their ability to pay.
Other Information: Operates at capacity each year, serving 45 children and their families; DUMC's financial contribution goes towards scholarships for families in need.
Volunteer Needs: They continue to depend on members of the community for project assistance. Due to state regulations, we cannot use community volunteers at random to supervise children, but we always have projects involving the physical center, as well as, special projects that beg for volunteer time and energy.
Davidson Housing Coalition & HAMMERS
P.O. Box 854
Davidson, NC 28036
704-892-4486
www.davidsonhousing.org
Contact: Marcia Webster
Mission: To increase and sustain the supply of affordable housing in Davidson.
Service: Davidson Housing Coalition provides safe, clean, and affordable housing to lower-wealth families in the Davidson community. The housing includes rental apartments, rental homes, and houses for purchase.
Other Information: Specifically, DUMC supports the "HAMMERS" program (Hands Across Mecklenburg Making Emergency Repairs Safely) that has already made 85 home-repairs as they serve the needy in our area.
Volunteer Needs: They are in need of volunteers to assist with emergency home repairs through the HAMMERS program.
Diakonos- Capital Campaign
P.O. Box 5217
Statesville, NC 28687
704-872-4045
www.fifthstreetministries.com
Contact: Patti West
Mission: "Diakonos" means "one who serves" and is a major ministries in South Statesville. They run an emergency shelter, transitional housing, night shelter, medical clinic, after-school tutorial, soup kitchen and a domestic violence shelter.
Service: They have been operating out of an old and dilapidated school house in south Statesville but have completed a capital campaign and completed construction a new building that meets their needs. The $10,000 we will give this year completes our pledge to give $30,000 toward the completion of this capital campaign and build their new facility.
Other Information: Fifth Street Ministries is a Great Day of Service site.
Volunteer Needs: Their current needs focus on raising funds for the new facility.
Disciple Bible Outreach Ministries of NC, Inc.
P.O. Box 370
Jamestown, NC 27282
336-454-5348
www.disciplebibleoutreach.org
Contact: Dr. Mark Hicks
Mission: To teach the Disciple Bible Study in the prisons of North Carolina, giving inmates the chance to study God's word.
Service: Boyce Huffstetler has been faithful in teaching a Disciple class at the Gaston Correctional Facility in Dallas, NC; each year he has about 20 students.
Other Information: The funds cover the Disciple study books for each participant, refreshments for each meeting, and three meals a year.
Volunteer Needs: Disciple facilitators are welcomed!
Emergency Winter Shelter
P.O. Box 31125
Charlotte, NC 28231
704-957-9993
www.ewscharlotte.org
Contact: Trish Hobson
Mission: To be a place of food and shelter for those who have no other place; to serve as a referral center.
Service: They provide shelter (a bed and a meal) for homeless men from November to March in the Charlotte Metro area.
Volunteer Needs: There are various was to become involved with this ministry: transporting the Emergency Winter Shelter (EWS) meals at the Charlotte Rescue Mission, serving the meals at EWS, or conducting food and clothing drives. Youth 16 and older can participate with an adult. EWS can always use help with landscaping, general cleaning and easy home improvement projects. Even daily contact with the guests is a tremendous help. Many go through the day without any human touch or contact.
Florence Crittenton Services
P.O. Box 36392
Charlotte, NC 28236
704-372-4663
www.fcsnc.org
Contact: Marilyn Thompson
Mission: The mission of Florence Crittenton Services is to promote health and hope for tomorrows’ children.
Service: They provide comprehensive health, educational and social services for single pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents, women and their families throughout the Carolinas.
Other Information: Since 1938, Crittenton has served over 38,000 mothers and babies.
Volunteer Needs: Their current facility is in need of some repair. They can always use new bed pillows or blankets. Service groups are welcomed to provide a meal of the month for the residence.
Great Dane Rescue of the Carolinas
10425 Mt. Holly-Huntersville Rd
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-697-9706
greatdanerescue.org
Contact: Lisa Reid
DUMC does tremendous work with people who might be called the least, the last, and the lost. Without hurting any ministry with people, we open our hearts to this agency that cares for dogs (Danes are their specialty, but they rescue all types).
Members of our church volunteer to help with administrative duties as well as feeding, fostering, exercising, transporting, and fundraising for the animals.
Health Reach Community Clinic
P.O. Box 1265
Mooresville, NC 28115
704-663-1992
healthreachclinic.org
Contact: Rory Crawford
Mission: To serve our community by offering no-cost medical, dental, and pharmaceutical services to low-income, uninsured residence of Southern Iredell County.
Service: They offer a free clinic.
Volunteer Needs: They are always in need of doctors, nurses and especially dentists. They can also use people without medical or dental training. Service oriented groups in need of a physical-maintenance type project are also welcomed.
Helping Empower Local People (H.E.L.P.)
P.O. Box 34008
Charlotte, NC 28234-4008
609-638-1943
toure_m@yahoo.com
Contact: Touré Marshall
Mission: Helping Empower Local People; mission is to bring together, train and organize the local community across all religious, racial, ethnic, class and neighborhood lines for the public good.
Service: Primary goals are to strengthen communities, develop local leadership and organize power to act on behalf of justice and the common good.
Other Information: HELP initiates actions and programs to solve community and economic problems…they "get the conversation started" in the community about issues that relate to everyone (i.e. education, transportation) and then work towards a common solution for progress.
Holiday Missions
Alternative Gift Fair / Christmas Missions Mall
Instead of, or in addition to, traditional Christmas gifts, relief and development gifts are sent by designated agencies in the community, nation, and around the world.
Volunteers are needed to help explain the AGF and collect money on Sunday after each service, and during the week in the chuch's market. The fair runs for 3-4 weeks prior to Christmas. Contact: Kari Hurlbut (704-655-0629). See also www.altgifts.org.
The annual Christmas Missions Mall is a great opportunity to enjoy shopping for wonderful gifts while still being faithful to the concerns of a needy world. You will find items for sale that are from local craftsmen as well as crafts from around the world. Beside the unique gifts, you will also find opportunities to "sponsor" gifts or give gifts in memory of others. These gifts are the ideal Christmas gift for those people on our list who have everything. The Christmas Missions Mall also give you the opportunity to purchase some DUMC collectibles. These gifts are special because purchasing these gifts is simultaneously giving a gift to the church and supporting its different areas of ministry and mission. The Missions Mall is open on Sundays in December. Volunteers are needed to run tables and help with the cash register. Contact: Rev. Jeff Hassel (704-892-8277).
Angel Tree: Purchase, wrap, and give Christmas presents to low-income individuals that would otherwise have no gifts. Contact: Cathy and William Sechrist (704-975-2895).
Operation Christmas Child: Shoe boxes filled with gifts are sent to children in crisis areas of the world. DUMC collects over 300 shoeboxes each year! Contact: DeeAnn Maddox (704-892-7483).
Prison Angels: Purchase, wrap, and give Christmas gifts to families of inmates who would otherwise go without. Contact: Kristin Meyer (704-895-0814).
Hope House Foundation
P.O. Box 61
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-992-1902
www.hopehousefoundation.org
Contact: Fran Mathay
Mission: To nurture the well-being, independence, and faith of women and their children by providing shelter, services and support.
Service: Earlier this year, Hope House opened its doors and began to fill a vital need in our area: to provide shelter, services and support that women and their children need to make a new start when for whatever reason, they cannot go home or have no home. Before Hope House, women with children had to run to Charlotte to find shelter and a place to get back on their feet. Their goal is to help residents become independent adults and responsible, self-sufficient parents.
Volunteer Needs: There are a multitude of volunteer needs. Some of these include: transportation and errands, childcare, literacy training, computer training, resume-writing skills, cooking classes, handyman services, gardening and yard work, and administrative office assistance.
Hospice Lake Norman
705 Griffith Street, Suite 203
Davidson, NC 28036
704-335-4324
www.hpccr.org
Contact: Katie Benston
Mission: To provide quality, compassionate, palliative health care and support services to individuals and families facing life threatening illnesses, enabling them to experience the end of life with grace and dignity.
Service: Hospice coordinates resources and services including coordination of medical services, on-call Hospice nurses, assistance with personal care, counseling and spiritual care, support for family members and other grieving and more.
Other Information: Hospice of Charlotte serves eight counties in North Carolina and York County in South Carolina.
Hospitality House of Charlotte
1400 Scott Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28203
704-376-0060
Contact: Kimberly Melton
Mission: Hospitality House provides a home away from home for out-of-town family members of patients in local hospitals.
Service: Hospitality House operates homes located near Carolina Medical Center that host family members; services include bed and bathrooms, stocked kitchens, laundry facilities and some peace and quiet.
Other Information: In 2007-08, they provided a home for 1,642 individuals who spent a total of 9,017 nights in a Hospitality House.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers can help in a variety of ways; preparing meals, working in the yard, spending time with guests or throwing us a pantry shower. There are other volunteer opportunities and they can tailor their desires with your needs or schedule.
Lake Norman Free Clinic
14230 Hunters Road
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-947-6858
www.LKNfreeclinic.org
Contact: April Cook
Mission: To provide free medical care to uninsured residents of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, and Mooresville.
Service: They provide a free clinic.
Other Information: It is the only free clinic in North Mecklenburg County.
Volunteer Needs: Help is always needed to create and publish a quarterly newsletter. Also, services of a CPA are needed.
Lake Norman UMAR
P.O. Box 1558
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-659-7632
www.UMARinfo.com
Contact: Nicole Warshauer
Mission: To promote community inclusion, independence and growth for adults with developmental disabilities.
Service: UMAR develops and manages 22 group homes across Western NC, providing trained care for adults with developmental disabilities.
Other Information: In 2008, DUMC gave UMAR a one-time gift of $50,000 that will be used to build UMAR apartments in Huntersville.
Volunteer Needs: UMAR needs volunteers in the following capacities: serving on the luncheon committees, being a table captain at a UMAR fundraiser, helping to plant/maintain a garden at a UMAR group home, organizing an outing for UMAR residents or spending one-on-one time at a group home working with residents on common hobbies or skills such as reading, crafts, board games or computers.
Mooresville Christian Mission
P.O. Box 62
Mooresville, NC 28115
704-664-2357
www.mooresvillechristianmission.org
Contact: Valerie Chamberlain
Mission: To bring families and individuals out of poverty or crisis and into independence, and to provide the elderly with services and financial support so they can remain independent.
Service: Mooresville Christian Mission operates a food pantry, free clothing store, utility assistance, rental assistance, emergency housing and job skills and life-skills training to the community in need. This organization does much with precious little - two full-time staff, 2 part-time and 30 volunteers make it work. This is the first year that we at DUMC are supporting this ministry.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers are needed to help in the clothing store and food pantry.
Mooresville Soup Kitchen
P.O. Box 5173
Mooresville, NC 28117
704-660-9010
www.mooresvillesoupkitchen.com
Contact: Jody Schwandt
Mission: To provide a hot meal and a warm and welcoming atmosphere for those in need - no questions asked.
Service: This is the most organized and efficient soup kitchen your mission director has ever seen! Because of their excellent work and the economic downturn, DUMC has increased our support of this ministry this year. We have a couple of teams that serve meals there each month.
Volunteer Needs: Join the DUMC cook team! The Soup Kitchen always has immediate food needs, call and find out what food you can provided immediately.
My Sister’s House
P.O. Box 5217
Statesville, NC 28687
704-872-4045
www.fifthstreetministries.com
Contact: Patti West
Mission: To provide safety and shelter for women and children fleeing situations of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Service: They offer holistic services; counseling, group sessions, court advocacy, a safe place to stay, and a 24-hour crisis line.
Other Information: Serves women and children of all ages and is the only safe harbor of its kind in our area.
Volunteer Needs: Their needs include: babysitting during group meetings, assisting with transportation for the women and children, and classes to be lead by those with expertise in specific areas ranging from budgeting to crafts.
Our Towns Habitat for Humanity
P.O. Box 1088
Davidson, NC 28036
704-896-8957 x 1103
www.ourtownshabitat.org
Contact: Terry Laney
Mission: To build decent affordable housing in partnership with families in need and our communities and make affordable housing a matter of conscience and action for everyone.
Service: Each year DUMC builds at least one Habitat home. This year, the cost of building a habitat house was $71,500. Each time DUMC builds a house locally, "Our Towns" pledges a portion of that money to build three houses in Guatemala. So when we build our Davidson home, we are actually building four homes!
Volunteer Needs: People to help build and people to provide snacks and meals for the builders are needed.
Rivens Scholarship Foundation
20805 Catawba Avenue
Cornelius, NC 28031
704-493-4955
www.hpccr.org
Contact: Tonya Rivens
Mission: To empower the lives of youth and the Smithville community by promoting education and providing financial help for employment skills and entrepreneurial success.
Service: They provide scholarships, employment assistance and computer labs.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers are needed to tutor youth in camp and in the GED program.
Room In The Inn - DUMC
P.O. Box 718
Davidson, NC 28036
704-892-8277
judithmmartin1@gmail.com
Contact: Judith Martin
Mission: DUMC provides shelter and food for homeless "neighbors" three nights a week during the cold winter months through this program of the Urban Ministry Center in Charlotte.
Service: DUMC will host each Monday, Thursday and Friday night this winter.
Other Information: Room in the Inn (RITI) uses the Dale House, off our main parking lot.
Volunteer Needs: We need the continued support of DUMC membership to keep this Mission a continuous outreach of our church. Support includes: cooking meals, serving meals, preparing beds, set-up and clean-up, and overnight supervisors.
Seigle Avenue Partners & Seigle Avenue Preschool Cooperative
P.O. Box 37
Charlotte, NC 28237
704-371-4922
www.seigleavenuepartners.org
Contact: Mary Nell McPherson
Mission: To create partnerships in the community to address the educational and social needs of at-risk children (pre-school and older) and their parents in the fragile communities of the Piedmont Courts and Belmont neighborhood in Charlotte; long term goals are school success for children and strong families for a sustainable community.
Service: They serve at-risk children in the Piedmont Courts and Belmont communities in Charlotte.
Other Information: The average three-year-old who enters the SAPC scores in the 25th percentile in language; by the time they graduate from the 4-year-old program, the average developmental score is in the 75th percentile!
Volunteer Needs: They are always in need of mentors and classroom helpers to work with their children and families. They also need volunteers to lend expertise by serving on a sub-committee of their board.
Serenity House - Mooresville
107 Foxtail Drive
Mooresville, NC 28117
704-799-0392
www.carolinacomfortcoalition.org
Contact: Cheryl Pletcher
Mission: To provide short term end of life care free of charge.
Service: They offer shelter and family type care in a home environment for terminally ill persons without a caregiver and resources to die at home.
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers needed at bedsides or for fundraisers. Collections are also needed for items such as juice, soup, coffee and tea.
Society of St. Andrew
P.O. Box 25081
Durham, NC 27702-5081
919-683-3011
www.endhunger.org
Contact: Kristy Bradley
Mission: To meet both physical and spiritual hunger through God’s grace and abundance by gleaning fresh produce to prevent waste & provide nutritious food to those otherwise without.
Service: Society of St. Andrew uses volunteer crews to gather food from fields and packing houses and distributes it to agencies and groups who disseminate the food to those in need in the local areas.
Other Information: In 2008, 19 million servings of fresh produce were distributed to 2640 agencies across North Carolina to feed people. The Society of St. Andrew only has 3 full-time employees!
Volunteer Needs: Volunteers are needed to help glean fields and those with pick-up trucks are needed to take gleaned produce back to agencies.
The Solomon House
P.O. Box 1087
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-875-0677
jbrooks@novanthealth.org
Contact: Joyce Brooks
Mission: To bring hope & healing to our community by offering programs that reflect the hands and feet of Christ.
Service: To provide a bi-lingual community center setting that focuses on holistic health and serves as a clearinghouse for knowledge of and access to health and human services; located in Huntersville.
Other Information: Programs include prenatal classes, parenting classes, preschool classes offered in struggling communities, diabetic education, individual counseling and referrals to other agencies.
Volunteer Needs: The greatest volunteer need is for office assistants.
Threads of Love
17932 River Ford Drive
Davidson, NC 28036
704-987-0775
www.threadsoflove.org
Contact: Lisa Marion
Mission: Threads of Love is a sewing ministry meeting the needs of tiny premature infants and newborns who die due to stillbirth, miscarriage or infant death. They provide burial and internment gowns.
Service: This nation-wide mission began in Louisiana in 1993 when a pediatrician contacted a church to ask if the church would start making these burial gowns. A gift was given to cover the supplies, so all the volunteers at the church needed to give was thread and love. There are 150 chapters across the country and this money will go to fund 5 sewing kits for the Lake Norman Chapter.
Volunteer Needs: Willing hands are always welcomed.
United Family Services
601 E. 5th Street, Suite 400
Charlotte, NC 28202
704-655-8745
www.unitedfamilyservices.org
Contact: Kathryn Firmin-Sellers
Mission: Based out of Charlotte with a local office in Huntersville, United Family Services offers counseling and education programs, consumer credit counseling, domestic violence programs, rape crisis services, and employee assistance programs.
Service: In 2009, DUMC's $5000 is being used to support a new counseling center at Ada Jenkins specifically to help at risk children and their families.
Other Information: United Family Services first opened in 1909. The Huntersville location opened in 2000.
Volunteer Needs: They welcome volunteers to assist with their domestic violence program or with administrative tasks.
Uptown Day Shelter, Inc.
P.O. Box 36471
Charlotte, NC 28236
704-334-3187 ext. 103
www.uptownshelter.org
Contact: Melinda Dutcher
Mission: To care for people who are homeless and provide them opportunities to rebuild their lives.
Service: Provides emergency & transitional services to homeless men; including shelter, food, clothing, counseling and education for housing, employment, & substance abuse.
Volunteer Needs: We have people serving breakfast at the Shelter every third Sunday, and the Faith in Action SS class serves dinner six times a year! Other current volunteer opportunities include: meal service, kitchen assistance, organizing and running our clothing closet, front desk assistance, transportation, clerical work, Life Enrichment Program group leaders, and special project volunteers.
Urban Ministry Center
945 N. College Street
Charlotte, NC 28206
704-926-0622
www.urbanministrycenter.org
Contact: Liz Peralta
Mission: To serve the poor, needy and homeless with basic needs with love, compassion and tangible help.
Service: Soup kitchen serves lunch 365 days a year. The center provides the homeless population a place to shower, do laundry, and receive mail; they also offer counseling & referral services, opportunities to raise awareness of poverty, and ways to encourage advocacy for the poor and homeless.
Other Information: Center offers innovative programs in the arts, soccer programs, and a community garden.
Volunteer Needs: New volunteers are always appreciated. They are staffed with two volunteer coordinators who happily train people who wish to become regular volunteers and they warmly welcome people on project basis such as bringing sandwiches to serve, serving drinks at lunch time and collecting practical items throughout the year.
WNCC Conference Building Teams
P.O. Box 18005
Charlotte, NC 28218
704-528-4264
www.wnccumc.org/vim
Contact: Rev. Boyce Huffstetler
Mission: To send building teams to other countries to build, restore or remodel church buildings, parsonages, education buildings and medical facilities.
Volunteer Needs: Check the list of trips for 2010 and sign-up for one!http://wnccumc.org/vim/pdf/WNCC-BuildingTeamProjectsBasic.pdf
Youth Homes, Inc.
601 E. 5th Street, Suite 330
Charlotte, NC 28202
704-335-4324
www.youthhomesinc.org
Contact: Mary Ellen Randall
Mission: To build promising futures with children and their families; to prevent child maltreatment and provide safe and nurturing foster care. Services include social services and counseling for families at risk regarding abuse, neglect, domestic violence and crime.
Service: Located in Charlotte and serves the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area.
Other Information: Youth Homes, Inc. currently serves approximately 260 children and families each day.
Volunteer Needs: There are numerous volunteer needs, please check their website.
YWCA Women in Transition
3420 Park Road
Charlotte, NC 28209
704-525-5770
www.ywcacentralcarolinas.org
Contact: Kirsten Sikkelee
Mission: To help formerly homeless women succeed.
Service: WIT program offers affordable transitional housing and intensive, holistic support services on site to up to 66 adult women in residence.
Other Information: This is the only "comprehensive, long-term transitional housing resource for single, unaccompanied women in the Charlotte region;" goal is to open a transitional housing program for homeless families.
Volunteer Needs: Please call and speak with Kirsten.