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
• 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 January 30 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.

Please return donations bags to your preferred Resurrection location. A drive-through drop-off opportunity will be available at all locations on February 19 from 9-11 am during Serve Saturday.

Special Teams

We need your help! Fill out our volunteer application and sign up to volunteer to distribute bags and help receive donations on Sundays at Resurrection Leawood!

Already a Hunger Stoppers volunteer? Log into our scheduler and select a Sunday shift!

Learn more at cor.org/hunger.

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.

If you are interested reach out to our Downtown Worship Experience Specialist Logan Nash.

Help us offer a warm Resurrection welcome to our guests by serving with the Worship Experience 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 Mindy.LaHood@cor.org to learn more and get started!

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.

Imagine losing your home, your community, your job, your school, close family members or friends.

Any one of these events would create turmoil, yet many refugee and immigrant families are living with the reality of all of these at once. Church of the Resurrection works alongside local organizations making an impact in the lives of families relocating to the United States.

Visit our Support Refugees & Immigrants page to learn more.

Jewish Vocational Services (JVS) assists newcomer individuals and families in achieving self-reliance. We serve by helping with home setups, groceries, and welcoming arrivals at the airport. Further opportunities directly with JVS are available providing support in the form of personal development, employment and training services. We can always use items found on this home set up list if you’d like to help mitigate the costs of home set-ups. Another way to support home set-ups is to donate to Flourish Furnishings, which provides many of the needed items.

If you haven't filled out the cor.org/VolunteerHub application yet, please do so before proceeding.

Next, you can watch this JVS training video.

Last, fill out these forms for JVS and return them to Patrick McLaughlin with a statement affirming you've watched the video.

If you'd like to simply become a JVS volunteer unaffiliated with Resurrection, please contact volunteer@jvskc.org.

Late December 10th and early December 11th, multiple tornadoes were reported in at least six states. More than 200 miles from Arkansas to Kentucky might have been hit by one violent, long-track twister, CNN reports.

In partnership with Heart to Heart International’s mobile medical clinic, Resurrection has purchased canopies for their use and those they are working with on the ground. We have also sent funds to both the Kentucky Methodist Conference and the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference for their immediate needs. As authorities continue to assess the situation, we will continue working with local leaders on how best to support their recovery efforts.

If you are interested in updates about Church of the Resurrection’s Disaster Response efforts in Kentucky and Arkansas and possibly volunteering with clean up, please fill out this form.

You can also donate online to our disaster response fund.

Join us in assisting Unity Southeast KC and the City of KCMO’s effort to provide overflow shelter to our city’s unhoused. Because the shelters we support fill, we are also supporting an overflow space in KCMO’s Columbus Park Garrison Center. Volunteers for all shifts are critically needed and items from the Amazon Wishlist are helpful. If you are interested in further conversation about the persisting confluence of issues around addiction, mental health, and inadequate affordable housing in KC, please contact PastorPatrick@cor.org.

Sign up to volunteer click HERE or click this Amazon Wishlist to donate today!

Duties for volunteers could include: handing out snacks and waters, helping with handing out blankets, pillows, escorting persons to and from cot if needed, being a friendly listener, helping them navigate forms and tasks, being eyes and ears on the floor, helping to keep food areas clean, throwing out trash, loving, comforting, and reminding our nightly guests of how resilient they are!

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.

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.