SERVE WITH US IN THE COMMUNITY AND AT RESURRECTION
Serve locally with us on the third Saturday every month!
Unite in service alongside community partners to make a difference in Kansas City. Join our dedicated staff and discover the organizations tirelessly working to enhance our city. Explore opportunities to get involved and contribute to building a better community together. Together, we can create lasting change. Join us today and be a part of the Resurrection Mission.
Serve in the Community
Each month, we spotlight new community partners, offering you the opportunity to serve alongside them and learn about the vital work they’re doing in the Kansas City area. Our events are designed to be easy, low-commitment ways to make a meaningful difference in the lives of your neighbors. Whether you try something new or return to a familiar favorite, you’ll experience the joy and impact of becoming God’s hands and feet right here in our city.
Avenue of Life
Avenue of Life is an amazing organization whose mission is to mobilize our community to equip and empower low-income individuals and families to be self-sustained and independent. Volunteers will be assisting with our giveaway event, which includes serving breakfast, distributing clothing, and item from our food pantry to the community. Family Friendly!
Blessings Abound
Blessings Abound Thrift Store is a Christian not for profit organization called to serve the metro Kansas City Community by selling and recycling donated merchandise in order to provide aid to people in need. We will assist in setting up the NEW LOCATION! 12 & older
The Hub Argentine
The Hub provides resources for the Argentine and Wyandotte County communities including a community market, clothing closet, community garden, and after school program. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and join us for a morning of working in Community Market (free grocery store) and Community Garden and prepping our physical space for all of our summer activities. 8 & Older
Refugee
Our vision is that every individual will be nourished, educated, and supported in an atmosphere of love and respect to permit them to achieve their full potential. 10 & Older
Mission Adelante
Join us as we serve at the Mission Adelante Thrift Store. Proceeds at this store fund the important work they do within immigration and refugee support work in our community. We will assist them with sorting donations, cleaning and organizing, and bringing a positive spirit to their store! We’ll also hear about the important work the organization is doing locally to impact immigrants and refugees. 10 & Older
Woodland ELC
Woodland Early Learning Center is a historic building in downtown Kansas City that serves 200 preschool children and their families through the Head Start Program. Come be a part of our team as we lend a hand with organizing the clothing closet or tidying up the school grounds with some weeding and planting! 12 & Older
KVC Olathe
KVC helps over 30000 people annually through family preservation, family reunification, outpatient therapy, foster care, and adoption. Come help us, help them! We will be doing some organizing in their warehouse that freely gives to families in need. 7 & Older
Lee's Summit Hillcrest Thrift Store
Hillcrest serves over 1,020 children, individuals, and families each year through its five residential sites in Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas and Jackson County in Missouri. Proceeds from Hillcrest Thrift Stores directly support their Housing Program. Join your Lee’s Summit community this November Serve Saturday to make a difference in these family’s lives! 14 & Older
Mercy and Truth Healthcare Ministry
The mission of Mercy and Truth Healthcare Ministry is to provide healthcare to the uninsured and underserved people of our community and world through Christian service. This Serve Saturday we will be cleaning, organizing, and labeling their Wyandotte County workshop to improve efficiency. 12 & Older
Homeless
Shelter KC Men’s Shelter is a Christ-centered community offering freedom, support, and resources to those in need, empowering them to reach their full potential. 16 & older
Creation Care
Assist the farm in a variety of indoor and outdoor fun in the soil activities! Come learn about all of the ways KC Farm School is fighting food injustice and making Kansas City look more like the Kingdom of God! No experience required, all ages welcome.
Care Beyond the Boulevard
The mission of Care Beyond the Blvd is that the homeless, uninsured, or otherwise vulnerable members of society have access to quality medical and mental health care despite adverse financial or social circumstances. 10 & Older
Center of Grace
Center of Grace is a community of diverse people from unique backgrounds spanning class, race, culture, and language. We will be helping them build a privacy fence for their playground. 10 & Older
A Turning Point
A Turning Point’s mission is to support families by providing basic needs & education equipping them for self-sufficiency. A Turning Point provides a food pantry, clothes closet, academy, community meals, and an outreach for the unhoused. 13 & Older
Helping Hands
All skill levels welcome. Work with other volunteers on projects including construction, organization, and clean-up to support our community partners. 16 & Older
Resurrection Mission Center
Our Mission Center is home to our Food Mobile, Book mobile, Bed Ministry, and Resurrection’s Truck Ministry. This Serve Saturday we will assemble sack lunches that we distribute through our Food Mobile and community partners to our homeless community. 10 & Older
Resurrection West
Join us at Resurrection West for World Random Acts of Kindness Day! Families are invited to stop by and pick up materials for a fun and meaningful scavenger hunt, designed to spread kindness throughout our community! You’ll work with your family or small group to complete small but impactful acts of generosity, bringing joy to others and sharing God’s love in simple, powerful ways! Let’s work together to make Kansas City look a little more like the Kingdom of God! Family Friendly!
Relentless Pursuit
The RPOR Drop-In Center is a safe, non-judgmental place for prostituted women from all backgrounds and races. This serve opportunity will help organize donations received to support this community. 18 & Older.
Homeless
The mission of Lazarus Ministries KC is to offer unlimited compassion while providing for the unmet needs of Kansas City’s urban core. We bring hope and opportunity to those in need and work toward solutions for homelessness and food insecurity. 12 & Older (12-15 must be accompanied by an adult)
Jewish Vocational Services
Lend your heart and your hands to JVS and the refugees and immigrants they welcome. Volunteers ensure that JVS is able to engage, encourage and empower our newest neighbors. Help JVS provide much-needed items to their clients by sorting clothing donations in their clothing closet and household items at their warehouse. JVS is one of many organizations our Refugee Support Ministry works with. 12 & older
Cross Lines Community Market
Cross-lines serves as a safety net for the community by providing direct assistance to at-risk families, the elderly, and single individuals struggling to make ends meet. We will be serving in Cross-lines’ no-cost grocery store restocking, cleaning, and preparing site for future deliveries. 12 & Older
Kanbe's Markets
With our goal to redirect over 1 million pounds of food in 2025, Kanbe’s Markets invites you to join us to help sort donated produce into our four redirection tiers: Kanbe’s Healthy Corner Stores – bringing fresh, affordable produce to underserved areas. Community Partners — providing fresh produce to over 40 local food pantries for neighbors in need. Animal Feed — supplying animal feed to nonprofit rescue farms. Compost – what isn’t fit for human or animal consumption. 12 & Older
Resurrection Ministries
Ongoing serving opportunities
Can’t serve this Saturday? Join our Resurrection Ministries throughout the month. Opportunities from construction to preparing hot meals. We are always adding events to serve all month long!
Resurrection
Turkey Carving & Meal Prep Event! Join us for a fun-filled event where you’ll be carving turkey, sorting meal items, and packaging delicious desserts. Whether you’re a master chef or a first-time volunteer, there’s a role for everyone!
Resurrection
Now that the Thanksgiving meal bags have been collected, we need your help to sort and organize them for distribution to our community! 10 & Older
Resurrection
Now that the Thanksgiving meal bags have been collected, we need your help to sort and organize them for distribution to our community! 10 & Older
Lee's Summit Social Services
This holiday season, help spread joy by volunteering with Lee’s Summit Social Services! They need our support to organize their pantry and clothing shop, ensuring families in need can access essentials during this special time of year. Your time and effort will make a big difference as they prepare to serve the community throughout the holiday season. Come lend a hand and help make the holidays brighter for those in need!
Foster Care
Joy Meadows’s mission is to provide foster families with community, support, housing, and resources so that children in foster care can find stability, healing, and joy. 5 & Older
Refugee
Global FC uses soccer as a vehicle for transformative impact.
We support underserved youth, many of which come from refuge and immigrant families, with the tools to overcome obstacles to success by providing resources, opportunities, and relationships towards a brighter future.
Restart
reStart exists to end homelessness in Kansas City. For over four decades they have tackled homelessness from all angles of the housing continuum using experience and insight to mobilize teams and partners to address this urgent and growing need.
Restore
ReStore generates funds that support our work with local families in need of a safe, decent, and affordable place to call home. Sorting donations, taking inventory, and assisting customers, are some examples of group volunteering opportunities in Kansas City that help us increase our impact.
Partner Schools
Mission: To support the social, emotional and reading skills that are foundational to student success by advancing our literacy platform and mobilizing community volunteers. 12 & Older
Homeless
Uplift Organization is a mobile street outreach for the homeless of Kansas City. Three nights a week, we take four Sprinter vans loaded with food, clothing, and other essential supplies out to the homeless. FAMILY FRIENDLY!
Resurrection Spring Hill
Resurrection Spring Hill. Join us as we clean, paint, and freshen up our new location before opening the doors in September. 14 & older
Resurrection Leawood
Bring your friends and family to help assemble Kindergarten readiness kits. The activities and materials in the kits are specifically designed to help preschoolers with readiness skills and development such as language and literacy, math, fine motor, and more. 12 & Older
Health Partnership Clinic
We are dedicated to improving the health of the communities we serve through the provision of high quality, affordable, accessible and culturally appropriate care to all individuals regardless of ability to pay. Health Partnership Clinic is committed to serving as a vehicle for collaboration among community partners as a critical aspect of meeting our mission.
Community Support
Let’s show our KC Crossroads community some much needed love! We’ll spend the morning cleaning our streets, handing out cold water to our at-risk neighbors, and praying for our city. This activity is for all ages, but youth must be with a guardian.
Addiction Recovery
Artists Helping the Homeless (AHH) offers transitional and supportive housing programs for men struggling to find shelter often as a result of substance use disorder. AHH also administers a re-entry program that helps recently incarcerated individuals find housing, employment, and social support services. 16 & Older
Benilde Hall
Our mission is to provide services for treating substance use, mental health, and homelessness so that individuals may return to the community as responsible, employed, and permanently housed contributing members of society. 18 & Older
Questions?
Email us here if you have any questions or need help finding a serve opportunity.
Mother's Refuge
Mother’s Refuge is a home for pregnant and parenting young moms that do not have a stable or permanent place to live. Weather permitting, we will work to update the yard and landscaping for fall and winter!
Homeless
Join us at the Hillcrest Transitional Living KCK Campus as we make a BIG Difference for their Youth Participants and Adult 90 Day residents. We’ll be rolling up our sleeves to beautify the property, plant flowers, lay mulch, clean apartments, clean and organize 2 food pantry spaces, and bless their residents and our volunteers with a hamburger cookout! 7 & Older
Richardson ECC
Support our newest Pre-K Partner School, Richardson ECC. We will work together to create a library learning space that encourages social, emotional, and cognitive development of young children.
Hillcrest
Hillcrest Transitional Housing offers homeless families, singles and youth a disciplined educational program within a caring, supportive environment. Join us as we assemble welcome baskets. All ages welcome.
Serve With Resurrection Ministries
Join us in supporting our ongoing ministries that make a lasting impact in the community. From filling backpacks and preparing sack lunches to working with our Helping Hands construction teams, there are monthly opportunities to serve. These initiatives directly support our in-house missions. Opportunities at each Resurrection location vary based on current ministry needs. Together, we can make a difference right where we live.
SACK LUNCHES
Assemble sack lunches at our Resurrection Mission Center that we distribute through our Food Mobile and community partners to our homeless community.
THE GIVING GARDEN
Love fresh air, playing in the dirt, and making a BIG impact? Join us at The Giving Garden! All ages welcome and no experience needed—if you can tell a plant from a rock, you're qualified.
HELPING HANDS
All skill levels welcome. Work with other volunteers on projects supporting local non-profit organizations or individuals. 16 & Older
Registration link coming soon.
