Volunteer Opportunities

January 3, 2023

Volunteer Opportunities

Como Park Lutheran Church welcomes everyone of all ages to volunteer where help is needed.

Want to help out?

Check out our list of volunteer opportunities below!

Sunday

  1. FOR ALL AGES:
    • Volunteers are needed to help record, edit, and post worship videos for Sunday live-streams. Please contact us at 651-646-7127 or office@comoparklutheran.org to let us know of your interest. (Training and support on the church’s equipment and software are provided.)
  2. FOR ADULTS:
    • Greeters
    • Ushers
    • Welcome Desk
    • Coffee Servers
    • Communion Preparers
    • Communion Assistants/Servers
    • Readers
    • Liturgists: Lead the congregation by singing the liturgy, prayer and psalm.
    • Bus Drivers (class B license required)
  1. FOR CHILDREN:
    • Acolytes: Youth can acolyte when they enter 6th grade
    • Also serve as liturgists, lectors, and ushers (See above.)

 

*If you would like to volunteer for any of the Sunday volunteer listings above, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at (651) 646-7127 Ext. 2208 or jonathan@comoparklutheran.org.

Youth & Family

  1. CHURCH DAY CAMP (VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL)
    • Kids aged Pre-K through 6th grade are invited to join us from July 15th through July 18th for songs, Bible stories, games, crafts, and more, in partnership with counselors from Camp Onomia. Teens and adults are invited to help as volunteers.

*If you would like to volunteer for any of the Youth & Family Committee’s events, please contact the Youth Director at (651) 646-7127 Ext. 2204 or osterhouse@comoparklutheran.org.

Social Outreach

  1. EVERY MEAL (in partnership with Chelsea Heights Elementary School)
    • During the school year, you can help with Every Meal‘s Weekend Meal Program, which is a mobile delivery solution that provides 4-5 pounds of substantive nutritious food to children directly at their school. At the end of each school week, meals are distributed into children’s backpacks for them to take home for the weekend. Volunteers are welcome to help distribute food to children’s backpacks at Chelsea Heights Elementary School. Watch the tutorial video for volunteers HERE.
    • To volunteer, click on the sign up button below.

  1. KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES
  2. MEALS ON WHEELS

 

*If you would like to volunteer for any of the Social Outreach volunteer listings above, please contact the Events Coordinator at (651) 646-7127 Ext. 2203 or sue@comoparklutheran.org.

Global Outreach

  1. TANZANIA
    • You can support a student in our companion congregation in Itungi Village, Tanzania with their schooling. A year of secondary school costs approximately $400, and a year of vocational education costs approximately $125. If you would like to support a student for a year, contact office@comoparklutheran.org or go to our donate page.
  2. GUATEMALA
    • Our partner-parish church is the Christo Lux Del Mundi (Christ, the Light of the World) Congregation in Santa Amelia, Peten, Guatemala. This village church consists of mostly Mayan Guatemalans in the northern reaches of Guatemala.  The location of the village and the lack of electricity and running water there present a number of ministry needs all their own, but chief in the minds of the parish are some basic improvements to the church building and grounds to improve their viability and self-sufficiency. If you would like to support them, please contact office@comoparklutheran.org or go to our donate page.
  3. MADAGASCAR
    • Madagascar is Como Park Lutheran Church’s oldest and largest outreach ministry. We help the East Africa Missions office of the ELCA, which is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Over the past 90 years, as the Malagasy Church has become more self-sufficient; therefore, our support has shifted from supporting Missionary Pastors to Regional support for indigenous church ministries, to modest support for their health care ministries. If you would like to support them, please contact office@comoparklutheran.org or go to our donate page.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the church office at 651-646-7127 or office@comoparklutheran.org.

 

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