Volunteer Opportunities
Be The Church With Us
Old First is committed to helping our members recognize, develop and celebrate the gifts God gives them for doing ministry in our congregation and in our world. We invite you to find your way to help us be the Church.
Perhaps you’d like to serve as an usher on Sunday morning, or welcome one of our urban service camps, or organize a group from your workplace to cook breakfast for our needy neighbors.
Everyone, regardless of religious or spiritual tradition, is invited to join us in the act of loving our neighbors and our neighborhood. When we serve others we gain much more than we give.
Community Dinners
Old First’s Social Hall becomes home to 30 residents from November through April each year. Volunteers prepare, serve, and share an evening meal with the men of the shelter several days a week.
How can I grow in my generosity?
Stewardship
Stewardship is acknowledging and caring for what has been entrusted to us: our world cannot be fully alive, we cannot be fully ourselves until we attain thanksgiving and generosity.
Giving is integral to spiritual growth as you become aware of all that God has already given you, you experience thankfulness. Deep thanksgiving translates into a desire to be generous: wanting to help God with what God is trying to get done in the world.
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. The offering acceptable to God is our gratitude shown in our sharing with others. Because we love God. Because God loved us first.