SERVING WITH THE PARK

Wherever God is calling your heart to serve—be it in our community, in the church, or even abroad—there's an opportunity here for you.

Opportunities to Serve at The Park

  • The Adoption and Foster Support Ministry supports families that are Foster or Adoptive Parents with meals, clothing, and expenses for the sudden changes in their families as they serve these loved children.  During foster family events, Park members and families volunteer their time, love, and encouragement with foster families in the community.

  • Wonderfully Made is a buddy program designed to support children with special needs/disabilities. With Wonderfully Made, we pair a Big Buddy (YOU!) with a Little Buddy during Children’s Worship and/or Bible Class. The role of a Buddy is to support these children as they actively engage in learning about and worshiping God.  

    Click here to volunteer

  • Christian Automotive Repairmen Serving {C.A.R.S.} is a group of men that service vehicles for our single or senior members. Making minor repairs and keeping cars rolling.

  • To support our families during their time of loss, we provide a family Funeral Meal to bless them on the day of the funeral service. Opportunities to serve include making side dishes, serving the meal, set-up, and clean-up. Sign up to work on a monthly team.

  • Helping Hands ministry provides help to those in need with small projects or minor maintenance to their home or yard that can be completed in an hour or two by a small team of volunteers.

  • The Homebound Adoption Program provides community and encouragement to a homebound member (often a widow or shut-in) who is unable partake in community physically with the body of Christ at The Park. This ministry is a great opportunity for individuals, families, and even small groups, to "adopt" a homebound (or facility-bound) member(s) to share intentional time, love, and encouragement, helping them feel more connected to their church family.

  • i choose hope is a ministry assisting families with loved ones battling mental health struggles. Offering prayer and support through difficult times, i choose hope aids these families in knowing that they are not alone in continuing to care for their loved ones. Volunteers may serve during monthly support groups, special events, or as a prayer partner.

  • The Mow Team serves by mowing and taking care of the landscaping around The Park's campus. Join a team and serve one Saturday per month.

  • Operation Red, White, & Blue sends cards and care packages for our members' relatives and friends who are currently serving in the military. Join us for one of our "packing" days, where care packages are lovingly filled with donated items.

  • Our Prison Ministry conducts Bible studies in several area prisons each week, wherein many souls are taught about Jesus. Through this volunteer effort, volunteers serve directly in these studies, as well as by grading correspondence courses.

  • The Welcome ("Red Shirt") Team serves on Sunday mornings with a friendly smile and warm greetings to "welcome" guests and members to church. Team members often serve as a couple or family, and do so in a one-month rotation.

Want more information on serving?

Visit the Next Steps Room on Sunday mornings or contact us below.

Serving the community

  • The mission of the Bridges Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for individuals with developmental disabilities, their families, and our community through training, education, employment services and advocacy. As a volunteer, you can serve at the Mercantile, assisting Bridges clients with crafts, and assist with cleaning, yard work, and maintenance at the Bridges facility.

    Visit www.bridgestulsa.org to learn more.

  • The Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma provides meals to those in our communities who are struggling with hunger. One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time to help the Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma get food in the hands of those who need it most. Tasks include bagging, boxing, assembling, sorting, weighing, and labeling food donations and product in the Volunteer Center.

    New volunteers to the Food Bank need to submit a waiver through the Volunteer Portal (see button below).  All volunteers can use the Portal to sign up for serving times with The Park.

    To learn more, visit www.okfoodbank.org.

    Click here for the FBEO Volunteer Portal.

  • Lilyfield is a Christ-centered ministry devoted to providing safe and stable families for at-risk children and youth. They serve children, youth, birth, and foster families by sharing God’s love in our community.   As a volunteer, you can help deliver items to families, be part of after school assistance with kids, be a chaperone/mentor, and help with training families.  

    To learn more about Lilyfield's mission, visit www.lilyfield.org.

  • Safe Families Oklahoma is a non-profit organization that works through the local church to ensure that struggling parents have adequate options for meeting their children’s needs for a short period of time by recruiting volunteer Host Families, and surrounding them with a circle of support.  There is a role for everyone to keep children safe and families together!

    Visit linktr.ee/SafeFamiliesOK to learn more.

Volunteer to serve

Serving opportunities are available year-round and updated weekly as needs arise.  

Serving in Missions

  • Contact Mission Church of Christ hosts a meal every Sunday for its members. They seek volunteers to help provide/serve the meal. This is a great opportunity to serve our inner-city ministry partners.  Serve individually, as a family, as a small group or Bible class.

  • The Park's Disaster Response Team gathers supplies and volunteers and then travels to areas of our country that have experienced a natural disaster to help with clean up efforts while providing a friendly face and the love of Christ to those they help. 

  • FriendSpeak offers those, whose second language is English, something they want but have difficulty finding – a friend who will help them practice and improve their conversational English.  The text uses the book of Luke for readers to practice their English-reading skills, and volunteers then use questions to engage in English-speaking conversations. If you love Jesus, can speak English, enjoy people, and have an hour a week to volunteer, you can do FriendSpeak!

  • The Park is blessed to support so many incredible missionaries around the world -- and especially blessed when they are able to visit us when they are on furlough. You could bless our visiting missionaries by hosting them for a meal or a brief stay in your home.

  • World Bible School mails correspondence courses all over the world to students wanting to learn more about the Bible and our God. The courses teach through the steps of salvation. WBS is always seeking new volunteers to write letters or grade lessons for these eager students.