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Local Serving Opportunities
For our communities
We believe in mobilizing the church to fight poverty and injustice so lives are transformed and Jesus is known. We come alongside God’s work to create sustainable, long-term, and holistic transformation that restores hope and dignity.
Compassion & Justice serving opportunities include:
- Serving groups: Join a group to serve alongside others for 10 weeks at a time. Click here to view all of the opportunities.
- Ongoing serving opportunities: We are focused on making the greatest impact in food security, helping vulnerable families, and restoring justice in our community. View campus-specific opportunities to serve with a local partner year-round.
One-time serving opportunities: View the one-time needs of our local partners, and mobilize your friends and family to join you in serving.
Food Security
Hundreds of thousands of our neighbors have limited or unreliable access to nutritionally adequate food in the Chicagoland area. You can participate in our food drives that resource our Care Center and partners, volunteer to pack seeds for global partners to provide nourishment & income, or check out campus-specific food insecurity volunteer opportunities below.
Restorative Justice
Transformation in our community requires radical hospitality and inclusion so that we can be part of the type of reconciliation that Jesus modeled for us. At Willow, we take part in restorative justice through countercultural, open-handed welcome, acceptance, and love.
Serve in our Prison & Jail ministry to provide hope to those who are incarcerated by joining a weekly or monthly visitation team, Pen Pal program, or a one-time serving opportunity in December to pack Christmas gifts for every incarcerated person in the Illinois State prison system.
Helping Vulnerable Families
Young people are the future leaders of our communities and churches. We want to help all young people thrive and use their gifts fully.
We serve where youth lack opportunities through schools, foster care systems, and youth programs. We hold annual school supply drives so students can succeed and we have ongoing serving opportunities to uplift young people.
Serving with Partners
God has given each of us gifts and passions that we can use to serve our community! Our C&J ministry is in relationship with a wide range of organizations that are fighting poverty and injustice so that lives are transformed, and Jesus is made known. We would love for you to take a next step in serving with one of them. Check out the various organizations we recommend, and get plugged into serving opportunities by clicking the links below:
AHT Organizations: Naomi’s House, Refuge For Women
Refugee & Immigration: World Relief, Exodus World Service
Housing: JOURNEYS, Fellowship Housing
Chicago Organizations: Breakthrough
One-Time Serving Opportunities
Select a partner to serve with
Exodus World Service
Fellowship Housing
Home of the Sparrow
Journeys | The Road Home
Naomi's House
My Half Non-Profit Kitchen
The Ruth Project