Volunteer Opportunities

January 3, 2026

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 the Tech Team at 651-646-7127 or technology@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 Engagement Coordinator at 651-435-4175 (direct) or jonathan@comoparklutheran.org.

Social Outreach

  1. COMO GROW A ROW (in partnership with Como Community Seed Library)
    • During the growing season, you can help us fight food insecurity through the Como Grow A Row initiative. This initiative is a way for church members, friends, and neighbors to dedicate a garden row to donate their produce to a local organization fighting food insecurity; Every Meal and Keystone Community Services both accept fresh produce. Sign up to participate HERE.
  2. 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, SIGN UP HERE.
  3. KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES
  4. MEALS ON WHEELS

*If you would like to volunteer for any of the Social Outreach volunteer listings above, please contact the Hunger Ministries, Kitchen, & Events Coordinator at 651-435-4173 (direct) 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 Laden@comoparklutheran.org or go to our donate page.
  2. GUATEMALA
    • Our partner-parish church is the Christo Luz Del Mundo (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 Laden@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 Laden@comoparklutheran.org or go to our donate page.

*If you would like to volunteer, support, or donate for any of the Global Outreach listings above, please contact the Financial Comptroller at 651-646-7127 or Laden@comoparklutheran.org.

Family & Education

  1. CONFIRMATION – EVERY WEDNESDAY
    • Confirmation (grades 7-8) meets every Wednesday at 7 PM in the Fireside Room.
  2. YOUTH GROUP MEETING – EVERY WEDNESDAY
    • The Youth Group (grades 9-12) meets every Wednesday at 7 PM in the Youth Roo

*If you would like to volunteer for any of the Family & Education Committee’s events, please contact the Youth Director at 651-435-4174 (direct) or osterhouse@comoparklutheran.org.

Property

God’s house is your house. Will you help see to its maintenance?

If you’re the sort of person who…

    • notices burned out light bulbs,
    • dripping faucets,
    • sticking doors, and
    • walls that need painting,

and you can spare an hour each month to meet with a few others to…

    • survey our needs,
    • build lists, and
    • occasionally call a few vendors (or volunteers),

then the Property Committee would love to hear from you.

Help us see and respond to the building’s needs to keep it beautiful, welcoming and working for all. No wrenches required.

*If you are interested in helping and/or joining the Property Committee with maintaining the church building, please contact the the church office at (651) 646-7127 or office@comoparklutheran.org

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

 

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