Join us as we follow god's command to serve the poor, the widows, the migrants and the orphans
SERVE the poor:
Serve the under-resourced weekly at CF Palmetto Bay's Care Cottage (Food Pantry & Care Closet)
The Care Cottage is the yellow house accross from our church, ext to the tennis courts. We provide clothing and food to the under-resourced in our community. It is open to the public Mondays and Thursdays from 8am to 11am. We receive goods from Farm Share, Publix, Feeding South Florida, food drives and donations from Christ Fellowship visitors.
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
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Mondays and Thursdays, from 8:00 am-10:30 am, at the Palmetto Bay Campus, Care Closet volunteers needed to sort, fold and organize items, and receive visitors. Sign up at cfmiami.org/reach
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Weekly, volunteers needed to pick up breads and sweet pastries from various Publix stores. For more details, contact Ydania Peralta.
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Once a month, a volunteer is needed to drive the box truck to pick up food from Farm Share. For more details, contact Ydania Peralta.
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On the 4th Saturday of the month, volunteers pack over 200 boxes of food. Sign up at cfmiami.org/reach
Donations needed:
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Small, medium and large boxes (please drop off at the Care Cottage at Palmetto Bay Campus)
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Gently used clothes, shoes and new socks and under-garments
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Canned goods
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Non-perishable goods
All donations except boxes, 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 Ydania Peralta.
Serve the Homeless in Homestead and Downtown Miami
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 Homestead and Downtown Miami. Volunteers meet at Chapman Partnership and they can sign up to volunteer at cfmiami.org/reach
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, 2:30 pm - 7:00 pm, 1550 North Miami Avenue, Downtown Miami
Contact Dan Driscoll or Gideon Apé
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, Domestic Violence Victims & Widows at Assisted Living Homes
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. Volunteers also visit Domestic Violence Shelters and Assisted Living Homes to provide relief and hope to the women in need.
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
THE ORPHANS
Foster & Adoption Ministry
God commands us to serve the Fatherless and Orphans. That's why we have a ministry that helps us do just that!
Volunteer Serving Opportunities:
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MONTHLY CHILD CARE & BIRTHDAY BASH AT PALMETTO BAY CAMPUS
Every second Saturday of the month, our Palmetto Bay campus hosts a group of Foster and Adoptive parents from all over Miami Dade with the South Florida Foster Parent Association for a training meeting and our volunteers get to care for the children, playing games, teaching them about the bible and hosting a birthday bash. All volunteers must have a background check before serving. Also, volunteers that are considering becoming Foster or Adoptive Parents are able to speak with other families already on that journey and hopefully take the next step.
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SERVE FATHERLESS FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CHILDREN WITH YOUR CAMPUS
Check with your Campus Local Missions Director to see when is the next outreach. Christ Fellowship works closely with the Department of Children and Families, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Macklemore Center, His House, Florida Baptist Childrens Homes, Safe Space SHelters and more to bring hope and love to the children affected. You can also check cfmiami.org/reach for already scheduled opportuities!
At Christ Fellowship we believe if more of us stepped up to be a "forever family" to the neglected and abandoned children, we could make a greater impact in the future of our city. For more information on becoming a Foster or Adoption Family please click here for training dates, resources and more information.