Volunteer Opportunities

Want to get to know more people? Join our Welcome Ministry and greet folks at the front door each Sunday, Downtown or West Campus. Help everyone feel welcome…..that’s all there is to it! Please contact Colette at Colette@fumclawrence.org to sign up.
 

Seeking a few people who are willing to volunteer to help take care of the lawn mowing needs at West Campus during the Spring, Summer and Fall months.

Riding mowers, push mowers  and trimmers are on the premises and can be used. Contact Carolyn at Carolyn@fumclawrence.org or 841-7500.
 

This is an arm of Women Helping Women Inside, the UMW group in the Topeka Correctional Facility. A box in the Gathering Area takes donations of lightly used (mostly casual) clothing (ex: jeans, slacks, blouses, sweaters, skirts, and dresses). Our members contribute, sort, launder, iron and deliver clothing to women working from the prison and women being released who do not have resources on the “outside.” Please contact Carol Abrahamson at ciadfaks@sunflower.com.

 

Family Promise 

FUMC is a host congregation for Family Promise, part of the Interfaith Hospitality Network.  We partner with other churches in Lawrence to provide food and shelter for families experiencing homelessness.  The goal is that by providing individualized assistance, these families may regain housing, independence and dignity in a time of need.  Each partner church hosts the families one week each quarter.  Four times each year, we turn our Sunday school rooms into temporary bedrooms for four families with children.  The families arrive each evening around 5, eat dinner in Brady Hall, and spend the night.  By 7 a.m., they head off to schools, jobs, and work towards  permanent housing with the support of the local Family Promise staff. Our volunteers help with this program by setting up and taking down the rooms, providing dinner and breakfast foods, spending time with the families in the evenings, and overnight hosting.  Volunteers are always needed (it takes more than 50 people each time we host).  Evening and overnight hosts are required to do a 2-hour, one-time training with the local Family Promise program.  Family Promise is a wonderful opportunity to provide support for children and families that are currently homeless and to work with other members of our church community.
 

Jubilee Cafe serves free breakfasts in a restaurant setting to members of the Lawrence community that would otherwise have no breakfast. This project is a joint effort of the KU Center for Community Outreach student volunteers and the First United Methodist Church. Food is prepared on site in the church kitchen under the direction of student coordinators and served in Brady Hall from 7-8am. Approximately 90-110 meals are served each day. Volunteers are also needed for clean-up, which is generally completed by about 8:30 am. This is an opportunity to interact with KU students as well as the guests of Jubilee Café. Please contact Rose Schmidt at jayhawk429@sunflower.com for more info.
 

L.I.N.K, Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen. FUMC provides the meal and serves it to the LINK guests the third Sunday of January, March, May, July, September and November. LINK is located in the basement of the First Christian Church on W 10^th St. We provide meals to between 150 and 180 guests each time we serve. Volunteers are needed for prep, serving and cleanup. Everyone is welcome at LINK, no questions asked. If you would like more information about LINK please contact Mary Jones at maryjones@askmcgrew.com or watch for our sign up sheets at the welcome areas at each campus.

 

For more information on volunteering for other causes or areas of interest, please contact Colette Wedan at Colette@fumclawrence.org