SERVE IN THE COMMUNITY

Help Make Our Community Awesome.

See below, how giving your time and resources, you can radiate the light of Christ to those in need right here in Roswell.If you want to learn more about global missions, visit rumc.com/serve for more information.

Ongoing Opportunties

GIVE
TIME

Family Promise provides a safe, homelike shelter where families can stay together during times of housing transition and uncertainty. We provide families with hospitality, fellowship, and hope.

When: Bi-Monthly
Where: Roswell United Methodist Church
Contact: Marion Brown - mbrown@rumc.com
770.261.1716

The Drake House provides short-term crisis housing, education and empowerment programs for homeless mothers and their children in north metro Atlanta. Women and children entering The Drake House are offered a variety of support services (job skills, GED tutoring, teen mentoring, financial literacy, etc.) to empower and move them towards self-sufficiency. Chapel Roswell and Roswell UMC currently provide funds to sponsor an apartment adjacent to The Drake House. By volunteering to support this organization you can help sponsor apartments and provide services for these families as well.

 

Mighty Mentes After School Program is looking for volunteer tutors for 2023-2024 school year! Bi-Weekly at Vickery Mill Elementary School on HWY 9 in Roswell.

Volunteer According to your availability.
No teaching experience necessary.

Gilma Cantu
gcantu@rumc.com
404.447.0941

GIVE MONEY

The Child Development Academy (CDA) provides affordable early learning programs and childcare for preschool children of low-income families in the metro Atlanta area. The CDA has been preparing economically disadvantaged children for success in education and life for over 45 years. Their childcare services enable hard-working parents to maintain full-time employment and prosper. By giving to this organization you will provide scholarships and the necessary resources to bring a bright future to many of the God’s children.

Divine Providence Training Center in training Kenyan pastors in the Word of God and in the work of ministry focusing on those pastors with limited financial means and/or limited education.

 

The Drake House provides short-term crisis housing, education and empowerment programs for homeless mothers and their children in north metro Atlanta. Women and children entering The Drake House are offered a variety of support services (job skills, GED tutoring, teen mentoring, financial literacy, etc.) to empower and move them towards self-sufficiency. Chapel Roswell and Roswell UMC currently provide funds to sponsor an apartment adjacent to The Drake House. By giving to this organization you can help sponsor apartments and provide services for these families as well.

Murphy Harpst are the topic of heartbreaking news stories and devastating statistics. They are Georgia's most viciously abused children. For them, Murphy-Harpst, a nonprofit residential treatment center, is an emotional, spiritual and physical safe haven.

GIVE
STUFF

The Drake House provides short-term crisis housing, education and empowerment programs for homeless mothers and their children in north metro Atlanta. Women and children entering The Drake House are offered a variety of support services (job skills, GED tutoring, teen mentoring, financial literacy, etc.) to empower and move them towards self-sufficiency. Chapel Roswell and Roswell UMC currently provide funds to sponsor an apartment adjacent to The Drake House. By volunteering to support this organization you can help sponsor apartments and provide services for these families as well.

Foster Care Support Foundation
As of 2021, over 15,000 children in Georgia are placed in foster care, not including hundreds of thousands of children being raised by thousands of grandparents, relatives, or fictive kin. We aim to support these children by providing vital, basic needs, but we cannot achieve our goals alone.

 

North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC) provides assistance to 5,000+ families annually via food, clothing vouchers, and financial aid to individuals in need. NFCC offers an array of classes and opportunities to help residents move toward financial stability and self-sufficiency. NFCC’s pantries are monitored closely and are in current need of these five items:

  1. Pasta Sauce

  2. Jelly

  3. Broths (no other soup)

  4. Canned meats

  5. Diapers (size 6) and pullups

Look for mobile shelving in Chapel Roswell’s south lobby and bring the needed items on any Sunday.