Join us as we follow god's command to serve the poor, the widows, the migrants and the orphans
the poor:
Care Closet
The Care Closet receives clothing, shoes and linen donations. The items are given to people in need who seek assistance at the Palmetto Bay campus on Monday and Thursday mornings, at local schools, community events, or other requests.
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
Mondays and Thursdays, from 8:30 am-10:30 am, at the Palmetto Bay Campus, Care Closet volunteers needed to sort, fold and organize items, and receive visitors.
Donations needed:
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Medium and large boxes
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Gently used clothes, shoes
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New socks and under-garments
All donations can be dropped inside the blue bins located at the CF Palmetto Bay Campus and in front of the care closet all week long.
For more information, contact Naim Erched.
Food Pantry
This ministry works to provide food to the under-resourced in our community. We do this through Farm Share, Publix, Feeding South Florida, food drives and donations. Some of the food received is given to participants of the Backpack Program, visitors to the Care Closet at Palmetto Bay on Mondays and Thursdays or other people in need that visit our church.
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
Palmetto Bay
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At the Care Closet, we provide food to walk-ins on Mondays and Thursdays from 8:30 am - 10:30 am.
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Weekly, volunteers needed to pick up breads and sweet pastries from various Publix stores.
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Once a month, a volunteer is needed to drive the box truck to pick up food from Farm Share
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Two-three times a week, volunteers needed to make boxes of food for the Care Closet, Mobile Unit, etc.
Donations needed:
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Small and medium boxes
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Canned goods
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Non-perishable food
For more information, contact Sonia Fornoni.
Homeless
When a person becomes homeless, the impact goes far beyond their health and self-esteem, affecting their ability to provide for their family. We want to bring hope, love and care to those in need in our community, together with Chapman Partnership and through personal missions projects.
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
Volunteers will prepare and serve dinner to the homeless at Chapman Partnership in Downtown and Homestead. Volunteers can meet at the Christ Fellowship Palmetto Bay Campus at 2 PM to car pool to the location or meet us at 3 PM at Chapman Partnership
Chapman Partnership Homestead
Second Saturdays of every month, 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm, 28205 SW 124 Court, Homestead
Contact Rick Fraser
Chapman Partnership Downtown
Third Saturdays of every month, 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm, 1550 North Miami Avenue, Downtown Miami
Contact Giorgio Cerboncini
Backpack Program
Thousands of children in Miami go to sleep hungry each weekend. We’re committed to making a difference in their lives by providing them with backpacks of food each week. During holidays, participating families have the option to opt-in to receive a meal basket.
Backpack Program: When Thanksgiving time comes around, we will place an insert asking if the families would like to receive a free Thanksgiving basket. If so, they are asked to provide their information and send it back to the church. CF volunteers will then deliver the baskets, connect, and pray with families that willingly provide information. This will be the first of many opportunities for our church to connect and help families not just physically, but also spiritually.
Weekly volunteering would involve delivering food to schools on Thursday or Friday morning. This position includes some lifting, driving time, and the need to connect and love the administration of the school.
Monthly volunteering would be setting up packing party events. Every campus has the potential to host a backpack packing party every 6 weeks to replenish the number of bags on hand for the rest of the year.
Ministry Roles:
Backpack packing party leaders and volunteers, Food Purchasing, Drivers & Food pick-up, Storage Coordinators, Recruiters and vision casters, Volunteer Coordinators, Prayer Team
Contact Panos Kourtesis.
The Widows:
Single Moms
We love and support moms of all ages who are raising children alone, whether single, widowed, divorced, grandparents, foster parents, separated, or military wives with husbands on deployment. Support groups and opportunities to serve single parent families are available throughout the year.
For our next Community Outreach event for Single Moms, on April 1st at our West Kendall Campus, click here.
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
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Adopt a Single Mom
Provide relief to a single mom family by offering to prepare a meal, buy groceries, clean their home, mow their lawn or other chores. -
Host a Support group or a de-stresser event:
Plan and host events or meetings where the single mom ministry provides a mini-seminar style teaching followed by open group discussion time. Topics focused on single parenting, time management, stress relief, walking with God through life’s challenges, building health relationships, etc. The goal is to bring moms from the community and be the bridge to connect them to weekend services and small groups.
Contact Linda Churchill.
THE Migrants:
This ministry exists to provide relief, comfort and love to a community of people who are far away from their home-land.
Language Education Ministry
This ministry serves the migrant community as a way to reach unbelievers by providing them relief through language education.
Immigration Legal Support
We provide support to the immigration community by assisting them with preparing their legal papers for applications to improve their immigration status.
Orphan Migrants
We partner with other organizations to provide a loving and fun events for volunteers to engage with migrant and orphan children.
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
Language Education Ministry
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Teach the Practically Speaking English Method. At the end of each class, a devotional time is done with a small group leader or with the teacher. This can be done at the Redland, West Kendall and Downtown Campuses.
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Serve as a bilingual interpreters or simultaneous translators for the PTA and school meetings to help parents who don’t speak English
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Teach literacy through Alfalit program, to teach illiterate people how to read and write in their native language in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese or Creole.
Contact Carlos Delamo & Mirka Delamo.
Immigration Legal Support
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Volunteers help migrants understand the process of filling out paper work and applications for their immigration cases. This is done through Caring For Miami, with CF volunteers. To serve, please email Caroline Otero at cotero.vol@cfmiami.org
Orphan Migrants
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Volunteers must provide fun, loving, compassionate environment to children who have been separated from their families and gone through a traumatic experience at our weekly church service at the UAC Shelter in Homestead. Must be background checked. For more info, please email Giselle Delgado (Gigi) at gdelgado@cfmiami.org