Dorm Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Knox Area Rescue Ministries
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Purpose/Overview: The Frontline Team Member (Dorm Volunteer) creates a safe, respectful, and hospitable environment in which basic necessities of life are provided to support the care for guests. Maintains a fertile and stimulating environment of hope for guest’s commitment to personal change.
Responsibilities:
- Is a consistent witness for Christ; prays for KARM leadership, team members, and volunteers
- Understand and utilize KARM’s internal and community-based resources
- Overnight Shelters: Assist our guests with a variety of services and tasks including checking in guests, making beds, offering prayer, handing out towels, etc.)
- Collaborates with the Team Leader and Frontline Team to keep current with the needs of guests and staff
- Perform other duties as requested
Time Commitment: 6-9pm, one or more shifts a week. One-year commitment.
Qualifications:
- Commitment to Christian faith; ability to share the Gospel and show overwhelming Biblical hospitality
- Ability to demonstrate effective written, verbal, and non-verbal communication
- Ability to remain aware of surroundings, convey personal confidence, and focus in ever changing situations
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to engage people
- Understand how to appropriately react to conflict situations and maintain healthy boundaries
Training/Preparation:
- Completed background screen
- KARM-specific boundaries training (available throughout the year)
- Conflict awareness training (available throughout the year)
- On-the-job training to be done by supervisor and related team members
1 Shift
- evening / 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- NONE OF THESE TIMES WORK FOR ME, BUT I CAN STILL HELP
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About Knox Area Rescue Ministries
Location:
418 N. Broadway, Knoxville, TN 37917, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to seek to rescue the poor and needy of the Knox Area by providing recovery services in Jesus' name.
Description
Rescue, recovery and restoration - these three words represent both the promise of healing and the power of hope at Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM). Established in 1960 as the Knoxville Union Rescue Mission, we began as a shelter for homeless alcoholic men. Since then, KARM has been feeding the hungry, helping the needy and healing the wounds of lives shattered by homelessness, poverty, violence and despair. Indeed, our mission statement captures the commitment to this urgent need: "Our purpose is to seek to rescue the poor and needy in the Knox area by providing recovery services in Jesus’ name." By reaching out to hurting, homeless men, women and children in Jesus’ name, we seek to restore lives.
In addition to food, shelter and other basic necessities, we offer alcohol and drug counseling, group counseling, life skills training, parent education and family enrichment, educational opportunities and job training experiences. Our services are designed to repair the wounds of shattered lives and renew hope in people’s hearts by reminding them that they are not discarded or forgotten. KARM is the only agency in the Knox area that provides emergency overnight shelter and meals to all homeless in need. In additional to meeting the emergency food and shelter needs of thousands, an additional goal is to move those in hopeless and desperate circumstances to a residential status of stability and hope.
Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM) is a local Christian ministry devoted to rescue, recovery and restoration, who for over 49 years has worked to heal the hurting, feed the hungry, and shelter the homeless in our community. KARM is a key partner in the Knoxville Mayor’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness and works closely with other agencies to help facilitate getting the homeless off the streets and into safe permanent housing. Our professional affiliations include membership in the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions and the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
418 N. BroadwayKnoxville, TN 37917
DATE POSTED
March 19, 2024
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 6-9pm, one or more shifts a week. One-year commitment.
- • Completed background screen • KARM-specific boundaries training (available throughout the year) • Conflict awareness training (available throughout the year) • On-the-job training to be done by supervisor and related team members