Volunteer

For Ministries where you can Volunteer, see Ministries in CT.

Volunteer teams support these key Ministries. “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” They have roles and causes for which you can volunteer and serve. Teams there can unlock what’s unique about you. Contact Us if you need help finding a way to serve that will match your gifts and interests.

Some Roles and Causes for which you can Volunteer

To get an overview of what ministry teams do, watch this inspiring 30-minute video playlist of “Short Briefings by Directors of 12 Collaborative Ministries”.

What do you do well and enjoy doing? You have unique gifts and talents. Are they fully tapped? Is there a cause for which you would like to volunteer?

Please tell us how you volunteer now or would like to volunteer and feel free to send us your questions in the Reply/Comment block below.

Volunteer Roles and Causes

• Prayer Partner
• Mentoring
• Tutoring
• Addiction Recovery
• Homeless
• Prison Ministry
• Employment
• Discipleship
• Outreach
• Disaster Response
• Community Service
• Global Mission
• Evangelism
• Management or Administration
• Unity of the CHURCH
• Other

How to Unlock What’s Unique About You

A one-to-one relationship is usually required for someone to start to be a Christian. Then teams play an important role in ministries, just as they do in businesses and churches.

A vital first step for many to know Jesus is to trust someone who is a Christian. A second step can be to grow in curiosity. A third step is becoming open to change. A fourth step is seeking. A fifth step is believing, going from lost to saved, being born again. Then comes receiving the Holy Spirit and discipleship.

Small Groups and Evangelism

A team or small group is where these later steps often occur to experience and extend the love of Jesus. These steps may require a long time even though Jesus accomplished all of them in one meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well . …John 4:1-42 Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

Ministry teams can bring together individuals with different and complementary gifts and experience to love and serve each other. For example, a team might combine Christians with non-Christians, a ministry with a church or an employer with a ministry. Relationships in teams bring unity. Jesus prayed that we would be one, as He and the Father are one. …John 17:20-26

Teams sponsored by organizations encourage team members to invite other members. Two Christians on their own could also initiate a team by gathering other souls who need practical help and could benefit by becoming believers or disciples.

Businesses are built on teams

“Virtually all work is in fact teamwork. In companies with over 150 employees, 82% of people work on teams, and 72% work on more than one team.” Teams are “about unlocking what is unique about each of us, in the service of something shared … something none of us could do alone.” Even in companies of fewer than 20 people, 68% report working on a team and 49% say they work on more than one team. (Research by ADP Research Institute in 19 countries reported in the book NINE LIES ABOUT WORK by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, pp 24-31))