MLK Day of Service
Monday, January 16
8:30AM - Start at Baker Chapel A.M.E. with worship 2:30PM - Finish after lunch at Broadway Baptist Church
The second annual Tarrant Area Community of Churches MLK Day of Service brings together people of all colors and all religious beliefs to serve the larger community by volunteering their hearts, minds, and muscle to honor the unifying witness of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tarrant County joins people around the nation who would rather work together to build up than divide apart to tear down. In 2011, 300 hands worked together to serve 12 community agencies by weeding community gardens, stocking food pantry shelves, making care packages for children in the hospital, painting apartments to create safe space for victims of domestic violence, writing letters to soldiers overseas, and much, much more. THIS YEAR we have a GREATER GOAL: 600 hands working together to serve 20 community agencies that reach out to the elderly, the homeless, at-risk youth, children in need, prisoners re-entering society after serving their sentences, families living below the poverty line, people recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, and the list goes on.
Join others who have a heart for their neighbor. Register your group -- OR register yourself -- and make MLK Day a day ON not a day off!
For more information, email Melinda Veatch at melindav@tarrantareacc.org.
REGISTER ONLINE STARTING DECEMBER 12TH. Click here to register.
SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Beautiful Feet Ministries -- Serving the poor, homeless, and neglected in Tarrant county with medical care, dental care, eyeglass ministry, meals, clothing closet, showers & laundry. Project Description: Assist in serving noon meal; sort donated clothing; help unload food donation truck; help clean dining hall.
Bethlehem Community Center -- serving families in need in the South Side, Polytechnic, and Diamond Hill areas with before and after school programs, food pantry, clothing bank, crisis intervention, adult education, job training, and summer camps. Project Description: sort and sanitize toys, sort clothing, stock food pantry, deep clean classrooms and facility
Broadway Community Center -- serving low-income families and individuals with adult and children's clothing and school uniforms, day laborer's with sack lunches, food pantry, crisis intervention, and outreach to the homeless. Project Description: Sort and stock clothing for clothing bank. Sort and stock food items for food pantry.
Community Crossroads -- serving the Hemphill area of Tarrant County with no-cost dental clinic, clothing bank, food pantry, crisis intervention, hospitality and advocacy. Project Description: Stain and refinish wood tables and children's furniture. Sort clothing for the clothing bank
Community Food Bank -- serving low-income individuals and families across Tarrant county with non-perishable and perishable food items. Project Description: none yet
Day Resource Center for the Homeless -- the resource of last resort for the chronically homeless of Tarrant County. Project Description: play board games and serve coffee with homeless clients in upstairs conference room, help clients stow their belongings in Storage Facility, hand out towels and hygiene items, and distribute mail in mail area. High contact with clients.
Feed by Grace Ministries -- serves homeless individuals with Saturday program, mentoring, life skills programs, and other training and support. Project Description: Help construct the memorial path that will go through the Memorial Garden, commemorating the lives of the homeless and homeless veterans who have died on the streets.
First Street Methodist Mission -- Serving low-income families and homeless individuals and families with crisis intervention, identification, food bank, clothing bank, and sack lunches. Project Description: hand out sack lunches to homeless guests, serve coffee, and visit with those who stay to eat their lunch, sort clothing donations for clothing bank, and put together hygiene kits.
H.O.P.E. Farm -- Serving K-Middle-School boys in the Morningside area of Fort Worth with before and after-school programming, summer programming, mentoring and tutoring, music programming, special programming, and life skills training. Project Description: Light construction and clean up outdoors.
Humane Society of North Texas -- Advocating and caring for neglected and abused animals, providing temporary shelter, food and medical care for neglected, abused, stray and lost animals, and finding permanent, loving homes for animals since 1905. Project Description: Sort animal crates in storage, clear-coat horse barn, spring clean animal cages, scrub walls & floors, take pictures of animals for website, walk dogs, bathe, nail trim, and socialize with animals
I.M. Terrell Elementary School -- Educating Children in Fort Worth Texas since 1937. Project Description: weed, hoe, rake, turn soil, and prepare beds of community garden for planting
Lenora Rolla Heritage Center -- Preserving African-American history in the Fort Worth community through geneology, cataloging primary documents and photographs, works of history, and oral history. Project Description: cataloging books and other materials, cleaning display cabinets, planting flowers.
MacDonald YMCA -- Serving families in the Polytechnic area of Fort Worth with after-school programming, athletic programs, health programs, youth programs, and other community offerings. Project Description: deep clean gym equipment; work with visitors to the center; wash, dry, and fold gym towels.
Meals on Wheels Neighbor Helping Neighbor Program -- Neighbor Helping Neighbor is a program that seeks out isolated seniors and then matches them up with willing volunteers. Project Description: work at the homes of elderly residents raking, trimming hedges, and doing basic yard maintenance.
N.I.C.A. -- Serving low-income families and elderly individuals in the Northside area of Fort Worth with food and clothing bank, after-school programming, direct and social services, job skills, and other assistance. Project Description: clean and inventory food pantry, pull and sort old case files, organize leftover Christmas toys.
Opening Doors for Women in Need -- Serving women who have experience physical and emotional trauma. Project Description: work in community garden, which provides produce for families and the elderly in the Como area of Fort Worth.
Presbyterian Night Shelter -- providing overnight shelter for homeless men, women, and children and permanent housing for veterans and individuals with mental illness. Project Description: paint rooms in their Safe Haven facility.
Salvation Army -- Serving homeless individuals and families with crisis intervention, transitional housing, drug/alcohol programs, and life skills programs. Project Description: serve food, make sack lunches, organize/stock food pantry, general cleaning of facility.
Samaritan House -- providing housing, medical care, life skills training, employment services to formerly homeless individuals with HIV. Project Description: prepare kitchen and dining room for resident's noon meal and help serve.
Texas Re-Entry Services -- Works with formerly incarcerated men and women to help them re-enter society after serving their time in prison through GED preparation, job skills and job training, money management, assistance finding employment and other programs. Project Description: Sort clothes for the clothing bank, clean offices, classrooms, and bathrooms.
Union Gospel Mission -- a ministry to homeless men, women and children, providing temporary shelter as well as transitional housing, children's programs, adult life and employment skills programs, job training, and much more. Project Description: help prepare for lunch, serve guests, and clean up after the meal.
YWCA Downtown -- Serving women in crisis with transitional housing, life skills and employment training; providing early childhood programs for low-income families. Project Description: work in community garden, do playground maintenance, deep clean toys, classroom furniture in Day Care, wash and detail YWCA bus.