VOLUNTEEROpportunities
YOUTH PROGRAMS
Tutors/mentors
Help elementary aged children in math, science and reading Monday through Friday from 3:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Teachers
Lead beginning classes in drawing, digital photography, cooking (especially cookies and healthy treats), dance, and music or assist with choir. Serve as activity assistants in the game room.
Coaches
Coaches are needed for soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball. Some evenings and weekends.
Friends
Provide youth with outings and/or field trips. This can be for groups, or with an individual family.
SOCIAL SERVICES
Thrift shop
Open shop, sell items to clients, close shop on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 A.M. till noon.
Food Pantry
Stock pantry shelves one hour on Thursday. Pack food orders Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00.
Warehouse
Move food supplies (food, clothing etc.) to the warehouse on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9:30 A.M. to noon.
Layettes
Three or four times a year, groups of 5 to 10 people are needed to sort and pack infant layettes.
DAY CARE
Care givers
Watch children from 1:00 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. on a regular basis during nap time which is between staff shifts. Watch children while staff attend workshops on special call.
GARDENING PARTNERSHIP
In January of 2009, Senniger Powers LLP, a law firm in downtown St. Louis, partnered with Kingdom House to create and maintain community vegetable and herb gardens on the Kingdom House grounds. Led by attorney Jennifer Hoekel, volunteers from Senniger Powers worked with the Kingdom House staff and volunteers to coordinate and facilitate gardening activities that ran from January through December. During the height of the growing season in 2009, vegetables and herbs were used in the Kingdom House Daycare and After School programs as well as in the Food Pantry.
As we look forward to a new growing season in 2010, join Senniger Powers, the children, youth, volunteers and staff of Kingdom House as we photograph, journal and share our downtown partnership and our gardening story!
GENERAL
Office
Data entry, answer phone, mail preparation, typing on regular basis or on special call.
Maintenance
Outside grounds maintenance and gardening on a regular basis.
Work Groups
Provide paint, other materials and labor to renovate a room or outside equipment. Intensive cleaning of warehouse, kitchen, utility rooms and classrooms. Group size of 10 to 20 people works best. Thirty days advance notice needed to schedule.
IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY
Participate in saving Campbell's product labels, tally labels and send to Kingdom House. Organize collection and delivery of canned goods and used clothing. Use Kingdom House video to inform church groups about us. Advocate for children and against violence in your own community. Put on a fund raiser and send in the profits (car wash, garage sale, walk-a-thon, bake sale, talent show, other).
OTHER RESOURCES
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