Love Our City
Help us love on the Phoenix community and bring the hope of Jesus beyond our walls! During New City’s “Love our City” day, we’ll have a wide range of service projects set up for volunteers to participate in, including: Habitat for Humanity, Phoenix Rescue Mission, Hamilton Elementary School, and more! You can review the project details below and choose the project you want to participate in during registration. We are also asking for an optional $10 donation during registration, which goes toward a New City t-shirt and breakfast.
Before separating to volunteer around the city on Nov. 5, we’ll all meet at New City at 7:30 am to check in, get a t-shirt, and enjoy breakfast and coffee together! Then, we’ll gather with our project team and head out to serve at different locations around the community.
PROJECT LIST
Habitat for Humanity
This service project will require manual labor alongside leaders from Habitat for Humanity. You don’t need any prior experience to serve, but all volunteers should be over the age of 18. All the tools required will be provided. The location of the building we’ll be working on will be announced as it gets closer, and a sign-up form will be sent over from the organization.
**THIS PROJECT IS FOR COLLEGE AGED STUDENTS ONLY**
Phoenix Rescue Mission (Hope Totes Assembly)
https://phoenixrescuemission.org/filling-our-streets-with-hope-one-tote-at-a-time/
When you sign up to serve on this project, you will provide and pack “Hope Totes” for winter and summer relief for those experiencing homelessness. You can collect any of the items listed below yourself or work with local businesses and other groups to help you collect them. Then, everyone will bring in the items on Nov. 5 to Phoenix Rescue Mission to be packaged together.
Items Needed:
- Shampoo & Conditioner
- Soap
- Toothbrush and Toothpaste
- Deodorant
- Chapstick
- Body or Hand Lotion
- Bible
- Feminine Products
- Socks
- Small Snack
- New T-Shirt
- Sunscreen
- Gloves
- Hat or Scarf
- Hand Warmers
Hamilton Elementary School
You can serve Hamilton Elementary School students and staff by helping clean up their campus! Volunteers will be restoring benches, cleaning the classrooms, and doing various projects around their campus to help refresh the school. We will also visit the nearby park we worked on last fall to ensure it has been maintained.
Alongside Ministries
https://www.alongside-ministries.com
Alongside Ministries, which disciples and equips incarcerated Christians to transition successfully into the community, has various projects they need help with! By volunteering with them, you’ll help with painting, landscaping, cleaning, and more.
Kenilworth Elementary School
This service project has two phases you can join for: school beautification and a community field day event. During phase one, from 7:30 – 10:30 am, you will volunteer to help them with tasks like light cleaning of classrooms, painting of hall walls, and organizing recess equipment. During phase two, volunteers will work at their community field day event from 10:30 am – 12:30 pm.
Ohana Homes
The Christmas season will be here before you know it! Volunteer to help Ohana Homes get ready early by setting up Christmas lights on their various group homes throughout Phoenix.
New City Church
Let’s love on our church! Volunteers for this project will: help us sanitize our kid’s toys, wipe down our sand tables, deep clean our kitchen area, pressure wash our building and do various other projects around the church!
Rio Vista Center
https://riovistacenter.com/volunteer/
Rio Vista Center is a ministry of Arizona Baptist Children’s Services & Family Ministries. They provide for those in need by packing food boxes and distributing them to local families! Volunteers will be sorting food that has been donated from grocery stores to put in their boxes.
Christian Family Care Kids
Christian Family Care Kids is a preschool that provides an affordable childcare option for foster and birth parents. It also provides an educational foundation that allows kids to grow and families to strengthen and thrive. During this project, volunteers will help create a teacher’s lounge relaxing to give their staff a place to eat and relax outside of the classroom!
St. Vincent de Paul Urban Farm at the Human Services Campus
https://www.stvincentdepaul.net/our-work/urban-farm
The Urban Farm supports their dinning rooms and central kitchen that feed thousands of food- insecure, low-income, and homeless populations each day with fresh produce. Come ready to work on a farm! All ages are welcome.