Volunteer

Annual Marsha Donner Mother's Day Brunch

Sunday, May 13, at Capital University, sponsored by The Coalition for the Homeless

Volunteer opportunities and opportunities to sponsor a table will be open! This is a very special brunch for those who are mothers with children finding themselves without housing. Please check out the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless website.

Homeless Women's Overflow Shelter

In the winter, the homeless shelters can fill up quickly. The overflow shelter is designed to provide a warm and dry place for those individuals who did not get a bed at the shelter. This year churches in Central Ohio have been asked to gather volunteers to provide personal care items, sacked lunches and to be overnight hosts at the overflow shelter. We need small groups/individuals to provide travel sized personal care items, lunch donations and those willing to spend an overnight at St. Stephens Community Center. Training will be provided for all volunteers.

Contact Jenney
Email: Jenney Rice
Phone: 614.259.5370

Prison Ministries

Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility

Last Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm
We need volunteers for our worship, teaching and prayer ministry teams. For more info, contact John Seymour, 614.578.8371.

Become a Penpal

Looking for men who can write letters of encouragement to young men at Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility. Write younger men who are being processed for incarceration at detention centers in Ohio. We have a pen-pal letter-writing program called Lifeline. You can help change lives by being a penpal to a young boy struggling with what to do with his life. Click here to learn more about our Lifeline prison ministry pen-pal program. For more info, contact John Seymour, 614.578.8371.

Franklin County Jail

2nd Saturdays, 8-10:30am, 370 S. Front St.  
We minister to the men at this facility through our two morning worship services. Volunteer with worship, prayer team or just help at the service. Men and women are welcome to serve in both locations. For more info, contact John Seymour, 614.578.8371.

Women Serving Women

There are ministry opportunities for women to serve in at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW), Franklin Medical Center (FMC Zone A) and Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility. If you would like to serve women after they have been released, walking along side them as they transition back into community, we offer support to women through several re-entry homes as well. Join uus in this life changing ministry. For more info, contact Deborah Scott, 614.259.5348.

Men Serving Men: Franklin County Jail

3rd Saturdays, 6:45-8:45pm
Be a guest speaker or help with different elements of preaching at a service, during worship or ministering to the men.

Men Serving Men: Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility

2nd Fridays, 6:45-8:45pm
Visit with youth at celebration partys for boys that are well behaved and picked to attend. Give encouragement and conversation. We are sometimes able to pray with them. For more info, contact Scott Osborne, 740.244.6528.

Vineyard Free Health Clinics

Our Mission is to share the love of Jesus while caring for and providing free health care to the uninsured with limited incomes. Our volunteers extend the kindness and compassion of Christ to those we serve in our Medical, Dental, Optometry and Chiropractic Clinics. We are looking for health professionals and support staff to help us serve the people of Columbus.

Click to learn more about our Vineyard Free Health Clinics

Times and hours vary.  Please contact us with questions. To find out more about our Free Health Clinics, please visit our website.

Contact Carol
Email: Carol Achmoody
Phone: 614.259.5512

Homeless Ministries

Homeless Ministry Drivers

Wednesday or Saturday evenings
Join our team of drivers that use our 15-passenger van to bring volunteers to the homeless camps.

Church Service Drivers

Sundays, 8-11:30am
Help drive the van to transport our friends to the 9:15am service in our 15-passenger vans.

Homeless Camps Outreach

Wednesday and Saturday evenings
Help us bring food and supplies to the homeless living outdoors. We also need people to help prepare the food (we can furnish the recipes). We gather at the Pantry, located at 181 E. 5th Ave, and travel together as a team to each homeless camp area. This is great opportunity to serve individually or with your small group. Children are welcome with  parents.

Cooking for the Homeless Camps

Saturdays & Wednesdays
Your family or your small group can help to prepare the main dish for the 60 homeless men and women we serve on Saturday or Wednesday evening.  A home cooked dish expresses a special kind of love that will be appreciated more than you'll know.

Friends of the Homeless: Men's Shelter

1st Thursdays
Your small group can help prepare and serve a hot meal at this local men's shelter. Prepare food at home and meet us at the Pantry (924 E. Main St). We will drive down together and serve as a team.

For more information, questions, or to schedule your group, contact Rhodie Shreve, 614.259.5441.

Rebecca's Place Women's Shelter

1st & 3rd Wednesdays

We need small groups/women's groups to prepare a meal for about 45 women on the 1st Wednesdays of the month (our 3rd Wednesdays are filled through December 2010). We can furnish the recipes for you!  Serve dinner at the shelter an then feel free to sit and eat with the women too. Let God use your group to impact the lives of these women. We meet at the Food Pantry, located at 181 E. 5th Ave, to carpool to Rebecca's Place. 

Contact Rhodie
Email: Rhodie Shreve
Phone: 614.259.5441

YWCA Family Shelter

2nd Saturdays

Small groups can help prepare and serve breakfast for these families in housing crisis. This is a great way to serve for the whole family. Children are welcome with parents.  

Contact Rhodie
Email: Rhodie Shreve
Phone: 614.259.5441

Food Pantry Ministries

Northside Food Pantry

4664 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, view on map

The pantry is open every Saturday, 8:30-11:30am. We have food pick-up from 9:30-11:30am. We will be serving the following boundary area:

East of Karl Road
South of Rt. 161 - Dublin-Granville Rd.
West of Rt. 3 - Westerville Rd., South.
South border is east of Karl Road on Shanley Drive,
north to Belcher Road east on Belcher Road to Rt. 3 - Westerville Road.

Our volunteer opportunities at this pantry are ONLY by being scheduled. Please do not just show up! Our volunteer coordinator will be glad to schedule a Saturday for you to give your time and talents to help out. You can leave your contact information by calling 614.890.0000, x4366.

If you have any questions about our pantry ministry at this location, please feel free to call or email Rhodie Shreve, 614.259.5441. For at least the first 6 months, we will not be scheduling any small group participation. We will evaluate this after that time.

5th Avenue Food Pantry

181 E. 5th Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43201, view on map

Saturdays, 9-11:30am
Volunteer at our Food Pantry, located at 181 E. 5th Ave. Help bag and distribute groceries, assist with registration, carry bags and pray for guests as they leave. We also need help once or twice a month sorting clothing for the homeless ministry. Children ages 8 and older are welcome with parents. To schedule group, contact Rhodie Shreve, 614.259.5441.

Monday Night Service

Mondays, 6pm
Your small group can serve by preparing and serving a home cooked meal at this small gathering. Then join in worship and a small group Bible study with our friends from the Short North community. For more info, contact Kelly Ewing, 614.915.2743.

Bag Compassion

The Vineyard Columbus Free Food Pantries have made a special request to our congregation for personal care items. We are able to purchase food items through MidOhio Foodbank, but the personal care items are not purchased this way so we need these items from donations. Please purchase the following and drop them off in the large bins located near the church entrances:

Bar Soap, Deodorant, Toothpaste,Toothbrushes, Dental Picks, Razors, Shaving Cream, Combs/Hairbrushes,Toilet paper, Feminine Hygiene products, Baby diapers, Laundry soap

Free Medical Clinic

Use your skills and gifts to further the ministry of our Medical Clinics. We need administrative assistants, translators (Spanish, Somali, Creole), prayer ministry teams and healthcare providers for medical, dental and eye care. We are located at 171 East Fifth Avenue.  To volunteer, contact Clinic info, 614.259.5428  (This is a separate church department, but housed at Food Pantry location.)

Mid-Ohio Food Bank

Volunteer to help sort and pack their food items, at their warehouse location, 3960 Brookham Dr., Grove City. Different shifts are available. For more information, contact the volunteer office, 614.274.7770.

ECO: Creation Care Ministries

Tithe Your Trash

Remember you can bring all your paper recycling to Vineyard and throw it in the green and yellow Abitibi bins in the SW corner of the parking lot. All your junk mail, magazines, newspapers and paper are recycled and we get a little cash. What a deal!!!

• Aluminum cans - collected in labeled boxes located around the building.
• Mixed paper - collected in large bins located in the SE corner of the south parking lot.
• Used church bulletins - collected in crates at main entrances to the sanctuary.

You can also recycle your old newspapers, magazines, office/school papers, shopping catalogues and mail. Place your recyclable paper in the green and yellow Abitibi paper retriever bins in the southeast corner of the parking lot. Abitibi reimburses for each ton of paper. The proceeds go to our scouts and community garden efforts. Place your aluminum cans in the blue containers stationed around our building. Proceeds go towards children in Zambia and our special needs ministry.

Join our Leadership Team

Vineyard Columbus cares about taking care of the earth. You can help us get a little greener! There are exciting and simple opportunities to help collect and recycle our bulletins and aluminum cans. Have other ideas about how you can help Vineyard become a little greener? Please let me know, I would love to talk with you! To find out how you can get involved or to get our Green Stuff newsletter, contact Kelly Lindsey.

Nursing Homes

Looking For New Faces to Serve

We are looking for volunteers who feel called to combat loneliness and bring hope through weekly visits to people living in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities. Please contact Chuck Fisher, 614.259.5403.

Bryden Place Nursing Home

Thursdays, 7:20-8:30pm, 1169 Bryden Road
Volunteer at Bryden Place Nursing Home. For more information, contact Chuck Fisher, 614.259.5403. We are always open to new ministries in other locations.

Minerva Park Nursing Home

2nd Sundays, 2pm, across from Meijers at Cleveland & 161 (5460 Cleveland Avenue)
Forest Hills Nursing Home is looking for volunteers to lead Bible Studies for residents. For more information, contact Chuck Fisher, 614.259.5403.

Hospice Care Ministry

We are partnering with two Hospice care agencies: Harbor Light and Heartland. Training and support is provided for volunteers. We can be there to care, encourage and express the love of Jesus in simple yet practical ways.

Contact Chuck
Email: Chuck Fisher
Phone: 614.259.5403

Pray For Urban Ministry

Sign up for our prayer newsletter by contacting Jenney Rice, Urban Ministry Coordinator. We are grateful for intercession for all our outreaches, leaders and volunteers. 

Contact Jenney
Email: Jenney Rice
Phone: 614.259.5370