Agape Resource and Assistance Center

• Housing
  • Adopt a family - provide encouragement and lift their spirits with an occasional card, email, maybe provide a meal. Provide special birthday or holiday support. Be creative on ways to help these single moms provide happy, encouraging environment for their families!
  • Quality Family Time - Moms come home from work tired. They love to spend quality time with their kids, but are often too tired and rushed to figure out what would work. Create a Family Activity Box, fun for the whole family. Here are some ideas
    • Puzzles
    • Deck of cards - Go Fish, Uno, etc.
    • DVD movie and popcorn
    • Board games for all ages
    • Be creative - create memories!

• Childcare and Development
  • Birthday in a box - imagine how it would be if a family could not afford even a cake for their children's birthday. Create a birthday party in a box: fill a box with a cake mix, icing, paper plates and napkins, a blank birthday card mom can sign.
  • Create a fun and memorable celebration for kids age 1-16
  • Crafty Kids - put together craft and activity bags to help kids learn creatively and have fun at the same time.

• Education
  • Tutor for success - our moms and kids need help with difficult subjects, usually math. Your help getting ready for tests and helping with homework will help them succeed.

• Wheels 4 Success
  • Ride Share - when moms work full time, it is hard to get kids to their after-school activities or after school care. Build a team to help moms get kids to where they need to be.

Alternative Gift Market

• Shop online

Bed Start

• Website Administrator
  • Make updates to the website; including information on deliveries, current donation needs, volunteer needs, photos and videos of stories from families, and more.

• Apartment Liaison
  • Serve as a point of contact for the residents in various high referral apartment complexes in Bed Start service areas. Follow up with apartment manager, referring organization, or forward a need request to another contact or organization.

• Grant Application Writer
  • Identify Collin County Homeless Coalition, HUD, etc. grant opportunities, asses which ones are suitable for Bed Start, and apply for those grants

Family Promise of Collin County

• Provide food for breakfasts and lunches or meals for guest families during rotation. Food can be picked up from you!
• Laundry after rotation is completed - laundry can be delivered and picked up if the volunteer is not comfortable picking it up at the church.
• Send cards to families in the program, welcoming them to our church
• Pray for families in the program

Food Drive

• Shop for food

Head Start Family Sponsorship

• Shop online/offsite

Little Dresses

• Sew dresses for little girls in need around the world

Local School Ministry

• Make birthday cards for the school staff

Meals on Wheels

• Purchase items and decorate harvest boxes - list of items is provided online

Operacion Abrigo

• Purchase supplies to take/send to Mexico, send letters of encouragement

People Who Love People

• Order food online
• Assemble food bags

PISD School-Aged Parent Program

• Purchase needed items
• Write notes of encouragement to student parents

Plain-O Helpers

• Serve on the Phone Team

Project Transformation

• Virtual Reading Buddies

School Supply Collection

• Purchase school supplies

Sharing Shoes and Joy in Peru

• Write encouraging notes for children and families
• Pray for the ministry and the families

Spring Creek Village

• Pray for the ministry and the families
• Write encouraging notes for families

Summer Lunch Program

• Assemble weekend food bags at home and deliver them to the church