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Bridge Builders for Kids connect children of prisoners and their families to a Christian network that will inspire them to live up to their God-given potential. Contact: Ashley Dudeck, 888.345.5441, adudek@bb.cc
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Hope Academy provides a Christ-centered education in inner-city Minneapolis. Contact: Mary Brown, 612.721.6294, ext. 115, mbrown@hopeschool.org |
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Hospitality House Youth Development (HHYD) focuses on the spiritual, intellectual and physical development of urban youth. HHYD runs an after school ministry providing programming for kids in the inner-city. Contact: Dr. Foster, Director or Sarah Fischer, Volunteer Coordinator, 612.522.4485 |
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Jericho Road Ministries moving individuals and families from crisis to restoration by helping them become nutritionally fed, housed, clothed, gainfully employed, community-minded, freed in Christ and part of a Bible-based Church. Contact: Jeff Noyed, 612.455.1193, jdnoyed@yahoo.com
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JSAW (Jesus, Snow, Asphalt, Water) is extreme sports in a Christian environment that aims to provide a safe and fun place for youth where they can get involved in the community while gaining self respect, independence and learning about Jesus Christ and the love he has for them. Contact: Dennis Gallagher, 952.448.9415
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LifeCoaches for Kids® is a mentoring program that matches kids with caring adults. Build a friendship that will change a child's life as well as your own. Contact: Anne Sutton, 612.396.3873, anne_sutton@msn.com |
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Minnesota Teen Challenge (MnTC) is a faith-based residential drug and alcohol program that helps individuals permanently recover from chemical dependency and related life-controlling problems and self-destructive behaviors. Challenge Contact: Rick Schreiber, 612.373.3366
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Timber Bay is a Christian outreach ministry geared to meet "at risk" teenagers and build relationships with them through camps, work crews, in-town activities and Bible studies. Contact: Bill Lewis, 800.943.4424 Opportunities include direct ministry with youth in groups or one-to-one relationships, management and support services and weekend hosting facility work at camp. |
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TreeHouse brings hope to hurting youth and families by offering a safe haven, a community of teens, encouragement for healthy life choices and guidance for choosing a life with a future and working thru issues. Contact: Calli Estes, 952.238.1010, cestes@treehouseyouth.org
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Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation is a ministry committed to creating Christian leadership within the urban setting. They work to restore city neighborhoods through job creation and training, family revitalization, recreation and team sports and the development of local leadership. Contact: 612.638.1027, volunteercoordinator@urbanventures.org
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Urban Young Life is committed to introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith. Contact: 612.343.4147 Location: 739 E 14th St. Young Life Leader: Young Life leaders are caring adults who strive to build positive relationships with teenagers. Through friendships as well as through clubs, Campaigners and camp, Young Life leaders get to know teenagers and gain their trust. Because of these relationships, leaders "earn the right to be heard" and can share the Gospel with their teenage friends. |
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Bethesda's mission is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that share the good news of Jesus Christ. Volunteer Information Volunteer Opportunities: |
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Bibles for Missions Thrift Center funds the Bible League mission to place Scriptures around the world. The Crystal location focuses on providing Bibles for Bulgaria. Volunteer Information Volunteer Opportunities: |
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Christ for People focuses on sharing the word and love of Christ with people who have disabilities, especially those who remain isolated from the church community. Through praise and worship, Bible lessons, prayer, fellowship and other Christ-centered activities, participants are encouraged in their Christian faith. Contact: Rev. Anderson 763.422.1369 Love people with the gifts God has given you by leading Bible lessons, serving refreshments and providing administrative help. |
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CommonBond Communities's mission is to build community by creating affordable housing as a stepping stone to success. In addition to housing, they offer on-site Advantage Centers, academic youth programs and programs for seniors. Volunteer Information Volunteer Opportunities:
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Community Emergency Service provides services for persons in crisis and strives to empower them beyond the immediate emergency. The services provided include transitional housing, food, emergency transportation, aid with utilities, employment help and encouragement in spiritual, emotional and financial concerns. Contact: Lynn Peterson, 612-870-1125
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ForEver Friends, a program of JRG Ministries, provides Christian fellowship for adults affected by disability. This Thursday evening program includes worship, music, and praise. Contact: Zack or Susan Gill, 763.420.4774 Offer your friendship by helping out at ForEver Friends, leading Bible studies in group homes or assisting through your specific qualifications, such as training in autism or website development. |
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Eden Prairie HOPE assists low income families in their efforts to become self-sufficient. Contact: 952.949.8394 Mentor families by providing support with grocery shopping, familiarizing the family with Eden Prairie, tutoring English, providing information on resources available and assist in navigating various systems (welfare, telephone, schools, etc.) |
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Meals-On-Wheels seeks to provide people in our community with nutritious meals and human connections they need to live independently. Contact: Tim Temple, 952.933.2287 Help deliver meals at noon (11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) to elderly and/or disabled persons in Eden Prairie. Wooddale is involved once every five weeks. |
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Open Arms Mission prepares and delivers free meals specifically tailored to meet the nutrition needs of individuals living with serious and life-threatening diseases. Contact: JoAnn Molitor 612.827.1152, volunteers@openarmsmn.org
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PROP (People Reaching Out to Other People) is a community organization run by volunteers dedicated to helping and serving people in need. PROP's services consist of running a food shelf and children's clothing closet for families in Eden Prairie and Chanhassen, directing individuals to agencies that can meet their needs and providing transportation for local residents to medical appointments. 952.937.9120
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The Salvation Army is committed to serving the whole person, body, soul and spirit, with integrity and respect, using creative solutions to positively transform lives. Volunteer Information The Salvation Army offers a variety of ways for you and your family to reach others throughout your community |
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SHAPE (South Hennepin Adult Programs in Education) supports the efforts of all adults who wish to improve their lives through literacy, language, career development and lifelong learning. Contact: shape@bloomington.k12.mn.us
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Urban Homeworks perpetuates the hope of Jesus Christ through innovative community development that produces dignified housing for low income families, a strategic network of good neighbors and the redemptive development of real estate. Contact: Volunteer Contacts
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World Relief Minnesota mobilizes churches to minister to refugee and immigrant families in Minneapolis-St. Paul and surrounding metro area. Volunteer Information |
Helping those in Challenges |
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Breaking Free educates and provides services to women and girls who have been victims of abuse and commercial sexual exploitation (prostitution/sex trafficking) and need assistance escaping the violence in their lives. Contact: volunteers@breakingfree.net
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Christian Recovery Center's main mission is to help men, women, and children find freedom and hope from the life experience of emotional, sexual and physical abuse. The Center's treatment model is founded on teaching biblical principles and on prayer which permeate the individual, group, marriage and family counseling. Contact: 763.566.0088
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Cornerstone's mission is to prevent domestic abuse by supporting children and adults to live violence-free lives. Cornerstone's target communities are Eden Prairie, Edina Richfield, Bloomington, and St. Louis Park. Contact: 952.884.0376
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Damascus Way Reentry Center is a Christ-centered residential re-entry program for adult men who are exiting prison and jail. It seeks to provide a structured, caring, spiritually-oriented environment that will enable these men to remain crime- and chemical-free, while addressing their personal issues and meeting their individual goals in order to assure their successful integration as productive citizens serving God and their communities. Contact: Rev. Dick Harden, 763.545.6558 Assist with Bible studies, provide transportation to church, prepare meals and prepare welcome packs for men. |
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Dwelling Place Shelter is a faith-based domestic abuse organization in Minnesota that offers safe housing and holistic programs for women and children escaping abuse. Contact: 651.221.0405
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MATTOO exists to decrease the demand of human trafficking by building a global stigma through educating and involving men to raise international public awareness, and employ the power of innovative business, research and collaboration to advance sustainable and transformational human trafficking public policy and cultural changes globally. Contact: worldwide@wooddale.org |
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Metro Hope Ministries offers recovery programs for men (New Hope Center) and women and children (Healing House) to break the cycle of addiction and homelessness. Volunteer Contact
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New Life Family Services offers free pregnancy tests, counseling and support services to young women facing crisis pregnancies. NLFS also provides adoption services, an abstinence resource center and support groups for post-abortion, infertility, single parents and abstinence. Contact Details
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Overcomers Ministry aims to carry the Light of Jesus Christ to Native American people bound in alcoholic darkness. The ministry includes weekly Overcomers meetings (12 step program), evangelistic crusades and services offering hope and opportunity such as housing, employment, education and essential life skills. Volunteer Information
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Sanctuary CDC is a catalyst of hope in north Minneapolis, connecting people, organizations and resources to transform our community for good. |
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Wooddale Prison Ministry's mission is to encourage, equip and support Wooddalers in their ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. Contact: Tom Siegert, 952.944.3212 or email wooddale@worldwide.org Volunteer Opportunities:
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Elderly Care |
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Castle Ridge Care Center is a religious nonmedical health care facility for the elderly. Contact: 612.944.8982 |
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Clare Bridge provides assisted living residences for physically frail elderly and individuals with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of memory loss. Contact: Kayla 952-906-3800 |
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CommonBond Communities's mission is to build community by creating affordable housing as a stepping stone to success. In addition to housing, they offer on-site Advantage Centers, academic youth programs and programs for seniors. Contact: 651.291.1750 Volunteer Opportunities:
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HOME's (Household and Outdoor Maintenance for the Elderly) objective is to help elderly clients live as independently as possible by assisting with household chores and home maintenance. Services are provided on a sliding fee scale. Contact: 952.541.1019 Volunteers are needed to provide services such as painting, repairs, homemaking, snow shoveling, yard work and garage and basement cleaning. |
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Meals-On-Wheels seeks to provide people in our community with nutritious meals and human connections they need to live independently. Contact: Tim Temple, 952.933.2287 Help deliver meals at noon (11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) to elderly and/or disabled persons in Eden Prairie. Wooddale is involved once every five weeks. |
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N.C. Little Hospice provides comfort and care in a home-like atmosphere for patients and their families, ensuring that the quality of the patient's remaining life will be of the finest possible. Patients of all ages with illnesses ranging from Cancer to HIV/AIDS to dementia benefit from the hospice's care. Contact: Gloria Boncy, 952.928.9394, Volunteer@littlehospice.org On any given day, volunteers may bake muffins, make homemade soup or visit with patients or family members, as well as perform the daily tasks of any home, such as dusting, vacuuming or doing the laundry. |
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Store to Door shops for and delivers groceries and prescriptions every two weeks to aging and homebound seniors in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. They provide services to more than 1,300 people who want to remain independent despite their age, health, mobility or disability. Contact: Kristen Hoplin, 651.642.1892 Volunteer Opportunities: |
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Join LOVE IN[DEED] in making a difference in the Twin Cities. Just show up, choose from a variety of volunteer opportunities and then go serve the community! All ages are welcome--it's a great way for families to serve together! Held: Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. - Noon and 11:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
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