SAMMinistries Group Volunteer Opportunities
SAMMinistries
Cleaning, organizing, and inventorying are vital to ensuring a safe, beautiful home for our residents. Volunteer teams can deep clean the kitchen and help with other needed maintenance of TLLC. Projects in the past have included: painting; mulching; gardening; and organizing the children’s library. Additionally, Once a week the families of TLLC all share a meal together to build community before parents attend life skills classes for the evening. We seek groups to provide dinner to the families each Tuesday night. Please email for more info
About SAMMinistries
Location:
5922 Blanco, San Antonio, TX 78216, US
Mission Statement
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries is an interfaith ministry whose mission is to help the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless attain self-sufficiency by offering, with dignity and compassion, shelter, housing, and services. We provide volunteer opportunities to be renewed and fulfilled as they serve.
Description
During a cold winter morning in 1981, the problems of the homeless were brought into stark perspective for the members of First Presbyterian Church in downtown San Antonio.
A homeless man, frozen to death, was found on the church grounds. In response, volunteers started a ministry in the church gymnasium to shelter and care for the growing number of homeless individuals.
By 1983 this program, having gained financial assistance of several downtown churches, was incorporated by 11 downtown congregations into San Antonio Metropolitan Ministry, Inc. (SAMMinistries).
Today SAMMinistries has a staff of more than 80 and is supported by thousands of volunteers who help families and individuals throughout San Antonio on their path to self-sufficiency.