Community Impact Ministries
Life Center offers many different outreach opportunities
to serve our church body and the community. Details of each group are below. You can either click on one of the following links or scroll down to view each outreach opportunity.
Christ Clinic
Friend to Friend
Habitat for Humanity
Help Fix It Ministry
Life Services
One Day
Practicing-Tell
Salvation Army
Teen Mom Connection
Union Gospel Mission/Anna Ogden Hall
Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery
Christ Clinic
Christ Clinic is a non-profit medical clinic that provides quality care to low income individuals who have limited or no medical insurance. The purpose of Christ Clinic is to serve God and demonstrate the love of Christ through the practice of medicine. Christ Clinic always has different needs for volunteers. Some types of volunteer positions include nurses, front desk help, transcriptionists, and doctors.
Contact: Randy Sylvia, 327-4422 x218
Friend to Friend Ministry
Friend to Friend is a non-profit Christian ministry, founded to provide companionship to lonely residents in long-term care facilities. Nearly one out of three facility residents in the Spokane area spend their days without family or friends to visit them. It is our mission to recruit and train volunteers to serve as Visiting Friends.
Having a friend can make all the difference in the life of a lonely resident, and our volunteers often find the hours given in friendship to be deeply rewarding.
Being a friend is simple. Just listening is one way to be a friend. Other things friends do are helping write letters, reading aloud to someone with poor vision, and attending special events inside or outside the facility. Just a warm smile and a caring touch can make a lonely day brighter. Won’t you help brighten the life of someone who is lonely?
Contact: Joan Kopczynski, 747-4075
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian ministry dedicated to bringing the affluent and less affluent together as a community to build simple, decent, affordable housing for all God's people in need. They achieve their mission in partnership through: Faith, Volunteer, Donors, and Families. There are different construction related volunteer opportunities such as basic labor, construction site supervisors, and crew leaders. There are also many non-construction opportunities. They include working at auctions, family selection, finances, public relations, site selections, fundraising, office work, and working at the surplus store.
Contact: Randy Sylvia, 327-4422 x218
Help Fix-it Ministry
The Help Fix-It ministry is comprised of volunteers from the church that help people that dont have the means to help themselves with home repairs, yard clean-up, auto repairs, and moving. If they cant fix it, they find someone who can.
Contact: Rob Walker, 467-1528 or Chris Pashen, 482-6753
Life Services
Life Services is a local organization that provides services for women in the community. They provide pregnancy testing, first trimester prenatal care, STD screenings and counseling. They also have residential care for pregnant women who need a safe place to stay. In addition to those services they have parenting classes offered weekly.
Contact: Bonnie Torhjelm, 327-4422 x203
One Day
One Day is an opportunity for Life Center members to "Show God's Love in a Practical Way" by periodically participating in a small community service project which usually only lasts a couple of hours. One day doesn't require a major commitment. You participate at your convenience. It is a great way to get your feet wet in Outreach Ministries. Come check it out.
Contact: Pastor Randy Sylvia, 327-4422 x218 or e-mail randy@lifecenter.net
Practicing-Tell
Our Group meets every Tuesday evening at 6:00-8:00 at the bottom of the escalators at the STA Plaza. Our ministry is designed to give Christians at Life Center a chance to practice sharing their faith. Many times we are hesitant to share our faith because we are afraid we will blow our one chance, so at Practicing-Tell we provide a chance to practice.
We don’t focus as much on leading the lost, as we do on teaching and encouraging Christians how to feel comfortable with the Gospel message. We are seeing lots of success, and people who come are generally surprised at the lack of resistance.
We look at Practicing-Tell as a short term mission trip that happens hear in Spokane, a place where the average Christian can see the lost and hurting and see what God sees. if anyone has questions they can call me or email.
Contact: Terry Hoover, 747-7413
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army, a part of the universal Christian church, reaches out to men, women, and children in need by providing food, shelter, and opportunity for a better life. It is the Army’s mission to preach the social gospel—providing for a person’s material and emotional needs in addition to everyone’s need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In Spokane, this mission is acted out through weekly church services, prayer groups, Bible studies, and the following social service programs and events:
The S.A.F.E. Center emergency shelter for homeless families
The 2-year Transitional Housing program for homeless families
Camp Gifford residential summer camp
Sally’s House emergency foster care for children ages 2-12
Family Services social work office and food bank
Sports & Aquatics Center – providing community and warm water therapy
Thrift Store
Clothe-A-Child winter clothing shopping spree for needy children
Thanksgiving Distribution of turkeys and meal preparations – serving 4,500 families in 2006 Please volunteer for the Salvation Army today. The Salvation Army "Doing The Most Good."
Contact: Marianne Guenther, 879-3779 Teen Mom Connection
Partner with God in establishing a safe and positive environment where Young Mom’s are encouraged to seek Christ, develop responsibilities and dependability, dream for the future, and cultivate loving relationships with each other and with the volunteers. We help young moms cope with the realities of everyday life. Offering needed support and encouragement as they move toward independent living. Volunteer opportunities include: mentors, childcare during meetings, help with meals and snacks for meetings, rides for girls to get to and from meetings, and help crafts, bible study, life skills, and parenting skills.
Contact: Judy Dahl, 258-4320
Union Gospel Mission
The ultimate goal of the Union Gospel Mission is to offer each person the opportunity to know God personally through a relationship with Jesus Christ; to meet the immediate physical needs of food, shelter, clothing, medicine, eye care, and emotional counseling; and to offer each adult resident the opportunity for long-term life changes through the men’s Life Regeneration program or the women’s Life Restoration program. There are many ways to get involved in the Union Gospel Mission. They include sorting donations, volunteer in the children’s center, run and evening chapel service, serve a meal, assist in the kitchen or dining room, sewing, adopt-a-room, adopt-a-family, be a camp counselor, and gardening.
Contact: Lori Bradley, 922-4546
Anna Ogden Hall
Anna Ogden Hall, an outreach of the Union Gospel Mission, introduces women and children to the love of Christ in a secure environment that promotes dignity and God-centered personal growth. Established in 1971, this warm, welcoming, home-like shelter can house 65-85 women and children in 33 guest rooms. Hundreds of women and children reside at the shelter every year. Volunteer opportunities include: organizing a special event; decorating rooms; fixing meals; shopping; sponsoring a child’s craft activity, party, or outing; mentoring a woman from the long-term program; assisting in the kitchen; sorting and organizing donations; and working in the beauty shop.
Contact: Lori Bradley, 922-4546
Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery
The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery is a community-funded, non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect in the Spokane area. They care for children from birth through age six when there is a possibility these children may be injured or neglected due to family crisis situations like homelessness, poverty, substance abuse and domestic violence. Children can stay at the Crisis Nursery for up to 72 hours at a time, or longer if circumstances deem it necessary. They are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For parents, they offer support and education classes throughout the year, crisis phone counseling and referrals to other community resources. All services provided are free and confidential. There are many opportunities to serve at the nursery. They include: childcare volunteers, certified house parents, receptionists, administrative assistants, maintenance workers, janitorial workers, and fundraising group member.
Contact: Kristine Ruggles, 535-3155
For more information on Life Center Outreach Ministries, contact:
Pastor Randy Sylvia at 327-4422 x218 or randy@lifecenter.net
Updated:July 2008
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