Location: 8715 Holmes Rd, Kansas City, MO 64131
Serve Hours: Weekly, 30 minutes – 1 hour
Description: Be a role model, an advocate, a friend to a Center Middle School or Center High School student.
Phone: Mark Potter, 816.501.3010
Email: mpotter@colonialkc.org
Colonial Reading Partners
Why do kids drop out of school? Many times it is because they didn’t learn to read by the third grade. Help change a life by giving one hour a week to help a child learn to read. There are schools near South KC, Overland Park, or downtown, and most readers help out over their lunchtime.
Not sure where you’d like to serve? Use our general form by clicking on Connect with this Ministry below.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
God’s Community Garden
Location: Overland Park Campus MAP
Serve Hours: Flexible
Description: As part of God’s Community Garden, the Harvest for Hunger Garden is a volunteer-based part of God’s Garden, growing to feed the hungry in our community. Thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables are distributed to folks through Colonial and Mission Southside Pantries as well as other food pantries. Volunteers take home fresh produce each time they volunteer as part of a Volunteer for Veggies program. For more information please contact Julie Foster at jmfoster74@cs.com or 913.424.2967. A gardener can also lease one of the 40 raised beds or 40 ground plots to grow vegetables for his/her own family. For more information contact Vicky Kuhn at vkuhn3@gmail.com.
Harvesters Mobile Food Distribution
Location: 9500 South KC Road, Kansas City, MO 64114 MAP
Serve Hours: 3rd Saturday of every month, 7:55 – 10:30 a.m.
Description: 30-40 volunteers set up and distribute fresh fruits & vegetables to families in need. REGISTER HERE or call Jim Anderson at 913.461.4350.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
International Students, Inc. (ISI)
Location: UMKC/KU Med/Avila
Serve Hours: Monthly at a time of your choosing
Description: Befriend an international student/scholar by spending time with them each month. Introduce them to all things American and show them the love of Christ through your friendship. Training provided. Learn more about International Students, Inc. at their website HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Healing House
Location: 4400 St John Ave, Kansas City, MO 64123 MAP
Serve Hours: Monday Nights 5:15 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Description: 10 volunteers carpool to Healing House, a faith-based recovery home for women and men with addictions, to lead small group Bible studies. Contact Charlotte Koenigsdorf by email HERE or 816.942.6689. Many more serve opportunities can be found on their website HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Gracious Promise
Location: 15300 W. 143rd St. Olathe, KS 66062 MAP
Serve Hours: Weekly/Monthly
Location: Gardner & Olathe Jails
Serve Hours: Visiting prisoners/ letter writing/ prayer
Description: Since 1995, the Gracious Promise Foundation has ministered to the incarcerated and their families. To learn more about the opportunities to serve in this prison ministry, please contact Erika Marker at 913.488.6149 or email HERE if you worship at the Overland Park campus. Please contact Sue Brandt at 816.590.6756 or email HERE if you worship at the South KC campus. You can also learn more on their website HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
hool year
Description: Volunteers needed to be a friend/mentor to students. No homework help required – just friendship, time and attention.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
House of Hope KC
Location: 7044 Antioch Rd, Overland Park, KS 66204 MAP
Serve Hours: Flexible hours
Description: Teach special skills (music, art, sewing, etc), provide office help, lead Bible studies, provide home maintenance. House of Hope provides residential treatment program for hurting teenage girls, with the goal of family restoration. Girls in the program experience the transforming power of love through Christian counseling and education based on God’s word. More information can be found on their website HERE or call 913.262.8885. The second Friday of every month from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. is a volunteer open-house.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Lead to Read
Location: At Kansas City elementary schools near downtown
Serve Hours: Weekly 30 minute sessions over lunch hour
Description: Adult readers practice reading skills with eager elementary students in 30 minute sessions once per week.
Sign up online to be a Reader (an adult volunteer) at HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Friends of Indian Creek Elementary
Location: 9801 Grand Ave, Kansas City, MO 64114
Serve Hours: Weekly, 30 minutes – 1 hour
Description: Volunteers can join a student for lunch, help a child with reading or assist a teacher.
Phone: Mark Potter, 913.501.3010
Email: mpotter@colonialkc.org
Friends of Frontier Trail Middle School
Location: 15300 W. 143rd St. Olathe, KS 66062 MAP
Serve Hours: Weekly during the school year
Description: Volunteers needed to be a friend/mentor to students. No homework help required – just friendship, time and attention.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
The Olathe School District
Location: Olathe School District
Serve Hours: One hour – weekdays
Description: The Olathe School District welcomes volunteers of all ages to assist students in Elementary Classrooms. Contact Pam Wolfe HEREor call her at 913.780.7002 to fill out an application. Training is provided.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
YoungLife
Location: Urban KC Club, Belton Club, Shawnee Mission Club, South Johnson County Club
Serve Hours: Flexible hours
Description: The Mission of Young Life is to introduce young people (in high school) to Christ, help them grow in their faith, provide an adult friend for them as they go through adolescence, and help them gain the skills, assets and attitudes they need to reach their God-given potential in life. If you are an adult (college-age to retiree) and have a heart for teenagers please contact:
Urban KC Young Life – Leonard Davis, 816.471.1177 or email HERE
Shawnee Mission Young Life – Wendy Franco, 913.384.3366
Kansas City, KS Young Life – Curt Johnson, 816.896.6063, kckyounglife@gmail.com, kansascityks.younglife.org
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
The Hope Center
Location: 2800 E Linwood Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64128 MAP
Serve Hours: Flexible daytime/evening hours
Description: The Hope Center invests in the people in the area, particularly the youth, helping lives be transformed by the Gospel. Your volunteer efforts will contribute toward reaching and developing urban youth into world-class Christian leaders. Learn more on their website HERE, email HERE or call 816.931.6290.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Freedom Fire
Location: 2111 E. 17th St. KCMO 64127 MAP
Serve Hours: Weekly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Description: Tutoring / Reading. Volunteers offer homework help (math facts and reading skills) to students. Learn more about Freedom Fire on their website HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Avenue of Life
Locations: Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS
Serve Times: Serve weekly/monthly, flexible hours anytime Monday to Saturday 8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Phone: Kim Bryan 816.787.6101
Description: Serve a meal, teach a class or skill, clean the facility, sort donations, provide child care. Serve with Avenue of Life as they mobilize the community to equip and empower low-income families to be self-sustaining and independent. Explore the possibilities.
Colonial Food Pantry
Location: South KC Campus, 9500 South KC Road, Kansas City, MO 64114 MAP
Serve Hours: Tuesdays and/or Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Description: Distribute Food, Pray or Donate. Compassionate volunteers needed to meet with families in need, distribute food (some heavy lifting required) and pray with them over requests they have. If you attend Colonial and would like to volunteer in the Food Pantry, click HERE.
Monetary or food donations always welcome! Click HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
Mission Southside
Location: 514 S Kansas AveOlathe, KS 66061
Serve Times: Variety of serve times available.
Phone: 913.393.2200
Description: Sort donations, lead Bible Studies, deliver furniture, serve a meal, and many more opportunities. Join Mission Southside in taking Jesus to people in need in South Johnson County by extending help and hope. Through Mission Southside, Colonial has adopted the Governor’s Court Apartment complex. Join Molly Pitkin and students as they meet Wednesday afternoons at the complex for Homework Huddle time with children and families.
Phone: Molly Pitkin, 913.707.4654
Email: mpitkin@colonialkc.org
Friends of Boone Elementary
Location: 8817 South KC Road, Kansas City, MO 64114 Map
Serve Times: Weekly, 1 hour of your choosing.
Phone: Connie Moyes 913.491.4675
Description: Volunteers can join a student for lunch, help a child with reading, or assist a teacher.
Advice & Aid Pregnancy Centers
Locations: Shawnee or Overland Park
Serve Times: Flexible/Daily/Weekly/Monthly
Phone: 913.962.0200
Email: volunteer@adviceandaid.com
Description: Help women and their families make an educated decision about an unplanned pregnancy. Volunteer as a counselor, teach a parenting class, or provide childcare for class attendees.
Joy Meadows
Location: 12400 170th St, Linwood, KS 66052
Serve Times: Weekly/Monthly
Description: Make a difference in the life of a child in foster care and/or the foster family caring for the child. Serve alongside Joy Meadows as they provide foster care families with community support, housing and resources so that children in foster care can find stability, healing, and joy. Opportunities include mentoring, administrative tasks, gardening, maintenance and grounds upkeep, event support, clothing closet and prayer teams. Training is provided. Find all volunteer information at their website HERE.
Phone: Meganne Leighton, 816.501.3004
Email: mleighton@colonialkc.org
