Rush to SACK HUNGER in Kansas City!

Get into the game by donating food or funds. It's 4th and goal and we're going for it!

Offensive Line: Monetary Donations

Your donation ensures we are able to provide fresh protein and produce

When purchased in bulk:

• $30 feeds a family of four for a week
• $120 feeds a family of four for a month
• $1560 feeds a family of four for a year

Easy ways to make a donation:

• Donate online (select "Hunger" from the Giving Type dropdown)
• Text COR to 77977
• Checks can be given in the offering or mailed in with Hunger in the memo line
  

Defensive Line: Items Needed

Pick up a bag on September 12 at all of our locations and donate food items:

• Cereal
• Canned Meat
• Canned Fruit & Vegetables
• Peanut Butter and Jelly (plastic jars only)
• Pancake Mix (add water only) and Syrup
• Chunky Soup/Boxed Dinners/Mac'n'Cheese

Please no expired, dented or glass donations.

A drive-through drop-off opportunity will be available at all locations on September 18 from 9-11 am during Serve Saturday. Please return donations bags to your preferred location no later than September 26.

Special Teams

• Help sort donations at the Resurrection Mission Center (154th and Metcalf) on October 4 and 5th. Sign up to sort here.
• Volunteer with the Food Mobile
• Volunteer at the Resurrection Overland Park Food Pantry

Saturday, October 16
Multiple shift times available
Various locations in Kansas City

Join us for a COVID-cautious Serve Saturday! Registration is required to ensure proper social distancing. Volunteers will go directly to their selected serve site on Saturday morning. Please note, some locations have specific COVID-related guidelines for volunteers.

We have lots of great opportunities, including family-friendly and outdoor options. Opportunities include food pantries, assisting with donation sorting, yard beautification and community garden opportunities, and more.

Learn more and register here.

Looking for some at-home serve activities? Check out our DIY Serve page!

Volunteer Guidelines:

Church of the Resurrection supports CDC COVID-19 guidance for vaccinated and unvaccinated people, including with respect to isolation and quarantine. Please self-monitor for symptoms and close contact when considering attendance at any scheduled event.

Volunteers should be prepared to follow the requested COVID-19 guidelines (masking, social distancing, etc.) at the agencies where they serve.

Help us offer a warm Resurrection welcome to our guests by serving with the Guest Connections team. We are always looking for smiling faces to serve in a variety of roles - both during worship times or during the week:

Greeting Team

• Outside Door Greeter: Serve outside welcoming guests to Resurrection by opening doors and greeting them with a smile! Serving time is 40 minutes before service starts until all guests are in, and then at the end of service going back to the doors until guests have departed. Dress for weather, this is an outside role.

• Indoor Narthex Greeter: Serve as a helpful and friendly face by greeting people and giving directions in the Narthex. Serving time is 40 minutes before service starts until all guests are in, and then at the end of service going back to your station until guests have departed.

• Outside Sidewalk/Parking Lot Greeter: Be the first smile to welcome our guests to Resurrection! Assist with wheelchairs and guest drop-offs. Serve outside before service – total serving time is approximately one hour. Dress for weather, this is an outside role.

Weekend Connection Point: If you enjoy welcoming and helping others in an active environment, we need your warmth and enthusiasm at the Connection Point! It's not about knowing all the answers; it's about offering a caring smile, a sense of welcome and hospitality to those who walk through the church doors. (40 minutes before worship until 15 minutes after the service is over.)

Ushers: Serve during worship services welcoming guests into the worship space and assisting guests in finding seats.

Contact Jami.Felver@cor.org to learn more and get started!

We are looking for volunteers to join the Angel Care team for KiDSCOR at Resurrection Downtown. These volunteers provide one-on-one, individual care for our special needs children participants, allowing them to join classroom activities and interact with children their own age. This is a very dear team that offers care, love, and support for a few of our smallest congregation to worship and connect to God.

If this interests you, please contact Sarah.Elliott@cor.org to learn more.

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Southeast Louisiana on August 29th exactly sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the same area. Ida touched down as a category four storm and has left much of the region without power.

Reports say that it may be up to six weeks before power is returned. The positive news is that the floodwalls and levees seem to have held. First responders are doing their best to go door to door checking on people who weathered the storm. Please join us in prayer for families affected by Hurricane Ida.

Donate online to our disaster response fund.

Are you interested in updates about Church of the Resurrection’s Disaster Response efforts in Louisiana and possibly volunteering with clean up? Sign-up here.

Join our remarkable usher team, volunteering with a smile at one of the various worship services. This important ministry involves directing congregants to their seats, passing the notebooks and offering plates during worship. Training is provided and opportunities to serve range from once a month to each Sunday.

Volunteering in KiDSCOR at Resurrection Downtown is FUN! Let us know you're interested in pouring into the hearts and lives of our infants, toddlers, preschool and elementary school-aged kids! Reach out to Sarah.Elliott@cor.org if you are interest or have questions.

Using Psalm 4:8 as the guiding mission, the Beds Program provides new beds to children who don’t have beds of their own in Kansas City urban and suburban communities. Our purpose is to recognize and address the physical need for sleep, thus providing a sense of comfort, rest and peace. Through this coordinated demonstration of God’s love and provision, we will bring smiles and comfort to children and families. Our focus is to serve the children referred by Resurrection's partner school districts and specific mission partners.

Upcoming Serving Opportunities:

Beds Pick-up Parties:

Volunteers are needed to load/unload mattresses, greet participants and assist them in picking up linens and pajamas. This is a great serving opportunity for the whole family-appropriate for children 7 and older when accompanied by an adult. Please note this event takes place outside-dress accordingly!

• Beds Party at Wheatley Elementary 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 25

• Beds Party at Big Brothers Big Sisters at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 2

Contact bedsforeverybody@gmail.com with questions.

Other Serve Opportunities:

Host a Linen Drive

Host a linen drive in your school, workplace, or neighborhood! New twin linens will be provided to school aged children who receive beds through the Program. If you need more information on the Program for your drive, please contact bedsforeverybody@gmail.com.

Slat Support Construction

Have access to free or inexpensive lumber? We are always looking for lumber to build our slat support structure. This structure is used in place of a box spring.

Sponsor a Bed

Don’t let a Kansas City child sleep on the floor tonight. Consider sponsoring a bed!

• $95 for a new twin bed (mattress, mattress pad, slat support and metal frame)
• $40 for a new set of linens
• $135 for a twin bed and all the linens!

Contact bedsforeverybody@gmail.com with questions.

Please visit the Beds Ministry Donations page for more information about how to support this ministry with donations.

I will both lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety. -Psalm 4:8

Tutor with children grades K-6 at one of Resurrection's partner school locations helping students improve their reading and math skills.

Serve Opportunities

Tutor or Reading Buddy: Assist students with reading skills, letter recognition and/or letter sounds. Requires weekly commitment.

Classroom Assistant: Assist teachers in classrooms and work with individuals or small groups of children; help the teacher with other needed tasks. Requires weekly commitment.

Lunch Buddies: Be a mentor and build self confidence with children. Enjoy lunch with a student each week while reading, visiting, or working on flashcards.

Ages: Volunteers must be 18 years and older.

Training Requirements: In order to provide a safe environment for all children, background checks and specialized training will be required prior to serving as a tutor. Please go to the Partner Schools Cultural Competency Training page for training dates and to register. Safe Gatherings certification is also required for those working in the schools. If you are not already Safe Gatherings certified (certification lasts four years) you will receive tips to help you quickly complete the required online training when you attend Cultural Comptency training.

Additionally, if you will be volunteering in one of the Kansas City Missouri schools (Troost, JA Rogers, Wheatley, Wendell Phillips or East High School) you must complete this KCMO Volunteer Application.

If you are volunteering in one of the KCK schools ( Welborn or Quindaro) please complete this KCK Volunteer Application.

Grace United Community Ministries operates to better the community one person at a time in a holistic approach through basic needs, supportive needs and spiritual needs.

Grace currently offers an after school tutoring program for children Kindergarten through 8th grade.

When: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 3:50-5:45 pm.

Where: Grace United Ministries, 811 Benton Blvd, Kansas City, MO.

Approximately 80-90 students attend four days a week, Monday through Thursday from 3:50 to 5:45 pm.  The program follows the KCMO school calendar.  All students are tested to determine their reading grade level and math proficiency.  A retired district reading specialist coordinates the curriculum and after more than ten years of operating, the program has achieved success in helping these children reach grade level proficiencies.  Adults work one on one with students in a structured environment and normally tutor three students each session.

Passions and skills that are especially helpful for serving in this role are children, education, literacy, care & support, mentoring, underprivileged, justice and mentoring.

If you are interested in helping with this ministry, please contact Linda Anderson at randerson507@gmail.com or (816) 352-3741.

A Child's Hope offers volunteers an opportunity to work with children and teens in foster care through a variety of programs that support foster children, foster care parents and adoption.

Over 900 children in Kansas Foster Care are waiting to be adopted and looking for forever homes. You may view their profiles at adoptkskids.org.

• Our mission is to support foster and forever families and share Christ's love with children and teens in foster care.

• With the shortage of foster and adoptive homes in Kansas City and Johnson County, Resurrection families are needed to open their hearts and their homes.

A Child's Hope ministry is not affiliated with any national organization and is solely a ministry of Church of the Resurrection. Please check out the other pages to learn more about the opportunities.

James 1:27  "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans... in their distress..."

The need for affordable housing is immense, and the lasting impact homeownership can have on families and individuals is undeniable.

Upcoming Opportunities:

Habitat for Humanity
There are more than 13,000 families in Kansas City struggling to find affordable housing. We are excited to be partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City to build new affordable homes.

The homes are not free – each family who partners with Habitat is making a personal and financial investment in their future. Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City partners with families to provide strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter. Through this partnership, each family has the opportunity to build or rehab and purchase their own decent home with an affordable zero-interest mortgage. Help be part of the solution by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.

Helping Hands Construction Ministry
Our RezDT Construction ministry is looking for volunteers of all skill levels and from all of our campuses. This ministry meets the first & third Saturdays of each month to help families and Serve Saturday partners that have a little more advanced and time consuming needs then they can address on their own. For info email rezdtconstruction@cor.org.

If you're interested in other housing and construction opportunities please contact Bob at resurrectionhabitat@yahoo.com.

KC Public School partnerships

• Church of the Resurrection partners with eight local elementary schools to help improve lifelong outcomes for students. A full description of opportunities and steps to get involved are available at our Partner Schools Ministry page.
• RezDowntown partners specifically with two schools and our members are encouraged to participate here to build community along fellow RezDowntown participants.
• Information on our two schools
  • Wendell Phillips Elementary
    • Located at 2400 Prospect Ave. KCMO (view website)
    • For more information on serving at Wendell Phillips, contact Sally Smith!
    • See all opportunities to serve here.
  • East High School
    • Located at 1924 Van Brunt Ave, KCMO (view website)
    • For more information on serving at East High School, contact Pastor Patrick.McLaughlin@cor.org.