Local Partner Ministries

LOCAL PARTNER MINISTRIES

Local Partner Ministries are ministries in which Crossings comes alongside an organization by providing monthly financial support, awareness, and active volunteer recruitment.

BritVil Community Food Pantry provides food to the hungry regardless of race, color, religion, or creed. The primary focus of this ministry centers on sharing God’s love by treating those who enter the pantry with respect and dignity.

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Groups, families, youth and individuals are invited to participate in a variety of ways including:
  • Working a cookie and drink stand;
  • Talking with parents;
  • Participating in a food drive;
  • Serving as the warehouse crew;
  • Picking up food;
  • Driving trucks; and
  • Providing donations.

Specific needs include

  • Fill food orders on Monday-Friday morning
  • Pick up food from restaurants—mornings (need truck, van, or SUV)
  • Help sort produce Monday-Friday mornings
  • Mowing / weeding small outside area – any time
  • Community Garden (located at Chesapeake Garden – family-friendly serving) – Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to sundown or Saturdays from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Contact Sue at suebutler1@cox.net or 405-842-1275 | Location | Website

Hope is Alive (HIA) provides faith-focused mentoring homes for addicted individuals transitioning back into the world from treatment centers and correctional facilities. Residents leave HIA equipped emotionally, professionally, spiritually and financially along with a toolkit of life skills that enable them to contribute mightily to their respective communities.

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Sunday Night Meal Provider
  • House Supplies Provider
  • Home Restoration/Improvement
  • Landscaping
  • Resident Transportation Assistance
  • Adopt-A-House Program
  • Contact us by email to volunteer.

Contact Andrew at andrew@hopeisalive.net or 405-822-5667 | Location | Website

Living Faith Ministry provides housing and assistance with educational opportunities, transportation needs, employment searches, money management, and career development for men recently released from prison. Upon release from prison, men arrive at Living Faith Ministry to find a safe, encouraging, structured environment where they have the opportunity to develop a mature walk with Christ.

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Groups and individuals are needed to:
  • Attend Tuesday evening praise and worship;
  • Prepare a snack following Tuesday night service;
  • Host seasonal celebrations;
  • Serve as mentors and prayer partners;
  • Send written notes of encouragement;
  • Speak on a Tuesday evening; and
  • Provide donations to help men transition into their own homes (items needed: gently-used washers & dryers, refrigerators, recliners, small desks, and cars).

Contact David at dmcbride@lfmokc.org or 405-226-3126 | Location | Website

Mid-America Christian University prepares students through a Wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of God through Jesus Christ and the good of society.

OPPORTUNITIES

Crossings supports Maps Outreach, which provides scholarships for students pursuing a career in ministry. Please contact us using our information below and explore our website for opportunities!

Contact MACU at 405-692-3134 | Location | Website 

Safe Families Oklahoma, a volunteer movement, is part of a nationwide effort designed to support vulnerable children and parents in need.

Christian families engage in the spiritual practice of biblical hospitality by opening their homes to vulnerable children whose parents are experiencing a short-term emergency or crisis. Parents voluntarily allow their children to stay in safe, loving homes while they seek to restore stability in their lives. Typically, the assistance to these families lasts only a few months. Crossings is leading this community initiative and is dedicated to providing family support, stabilization and, most importantly, preventing child abuse.

You can learn more about Safe Families on their website. 

Shepherds of Love Ministries offer Christ-centered assistance to families in crisis situations. Shepherds of Love Ministries provides financial utility assistance, Bibles, other books of encouragement, greeting cards, and friendship counseling. The gospel of Christ is shared and prayer is offered with each caller.

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Adopt a family’s utility bill for one month;
  • Prepare Utility Giving Tags;
  • Pray for families;
  • Participate in speaking engagements/visits to show a short video–we love to share our testimony!

Helpline: 405-348-5195 | Contact Teresa at tkrountree@sbcglobal.net or 405-348-1167 | Website  

P.O. Box 5043, Edmond, OK 73083

Trinity Legal Clinic exists to answer God’s call to seek justice and mercy by providing free legal services to people of limited means in the Oklahoma City metro area. Trinity Legal Clinic is a Christian legal aid provider focused on quality legal advice and representation at no cost to those who are living in poverty.

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Attorney: Christian attorneys are a core part of the Trinity Legal ministry. The attorney commits to one clinic time per month, typically two hours per clinic. Attorneys assess the client’s needs and create a plan to address those needs. Attorneys are also needed to lead educational seminars for the community.
  • Prayer Champion: The prayer champion commits to praying with the clients during clinic, or prays for needs shared by clients on their prayer cards included in the client help and hope packets.
  • Justice Champion/Volunteer Coordinator: This person communicates with individuals on the team, works with volunteers, sets up meetings, and is the lead person for communication with the partnership and Trinity Legal Clinic.
  • Recognition & Events Committee: This person helps with the planning and executing of fundraising events and volunteer recognition events.
  • Social Media/Publicity: This person updates the Trinity Legal website and Facebook page. Ideally, this person would also take and publicize photos of clinic events.

Contact Lori by email to volunteer.

Contact Lori at lyoung@trinitylegal.org or 405-410-4544 | Location | Website

Wings is a special needs adult community that exists to enhance the lives of adults born with intellectual and developmental disabilities through social, vocational and residential programming guided by principles of the Bible. Currently Wings has 60 members, ages 18-62, who participate in a day program Monday-Friday.

OPPORTUNITIES

  • Day Program Volunteer
  • Corporate Group - one-time serve
  • Civic Group - one-time serve
  • Social Club Volunteer
  • Wings Serves Deliveries
  • Restoration and Landscaping Team
  • Fall Festival Volunteer (September-October)

Volunteer | Contact Cheri at cheri.weaver@wingsok.org | Location | Website

MEMBER-LED MINISTRIES

Member-led ministries are ministries of special interest and passion that Crossings members lead and invite volunteer participation.

Chosen seeks to mobilize the Christian community to action in defense of the orphaned and fatherless by opening their homes, hearts, and arms to reach them with the love of Christ. We approach foster care and adoption from a biblical perspective; however, we welcome families of all beliefs.

OPPORTUNITIES

Not everyone can become an adoptive or foster parent, but everyone can do something for these children. There are countless ways to get involved and change the life of a child in foster care:

Register for Chosen at Crossings to learn more and get involved;

Check out our Facebook page; and

Explore our website for additional information.

Contact Amanda at chosenokc@gmail.com or 405-823-1706 | Facebook | Location | Website

Joy Bible Study at Mable Bassett was created for volunteers to be the hands and feet of Jesus and show women who are incarcerated at Mable Bassett Correctional Center that God does indeed have a wonderful plan and purpose for their life—both while in and out of prison—and they are not forgotten.

OPPORTUNITIES

Individuals are needed to be a part of or help lead Bible studies, to pray for and with the women, and to write or send cards. Just being present on a regular basis can make a big difference.

Contact Ruth at JRBoyd@cox.net or 405-302-1247 | Location 

Living Free Bible Study exists to share the love of Christ with the church at Kate Barnard Women’s Correctional Center and offer biblical principles and strategies for successful transition back into society.

OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteers with Department of Corrections approval are welcome weekly on Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. Our ministry team leads bible study, worship, prayer, Scripture memorization, Bible trivia, and showers the women with lots of love and encouragement. Living Free also offers help, as needed, for transitional housing after release.

Contact Gloria at dgwinokc@sbcglobal.net or 405-245-1695 | Location 

OKC Crafty Crusaders for Christ meets monthly for prayer, fellowship, knitting, and crocheting to provide scarves, blankets, and other “made-with-love” items to local Christ-centered ministries such as the Crossings Clinic, City Rescue Mission, and the like. 

 

OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteer to knit or crochet items on your own, or meet monthly on the first Sunday, 1:00 p.m. and/or the first Wednesday, 1:00 p.m. at Crossings Community Church.

 

DONATIONS

Donations needed:

·       Yarn (any color or size).

Drop-off donations in the bins located at the Crossings’ Atrium entrance.

Serving Our Savior Sewing Group (SSS) meets weekly for prayer, fellowship, quilting, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to provide items to local Christ-centered ministries including Hope Pregnancy Center and Peppers Ranch.

OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteer to knit, crochet, and/or quilt items on your own, or meet weekly with SSS on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

DONATIONS

Donations needed:

  • Cotton fabric with baby or youth print
  • Thread (any color)
  • Yarn (any color or size)

Drop off donations at Crossings Missions office (administrative wing located in the north end of OKC Campus).

Contact Teddy at turpy@cox.net or 405-340-9357 | Website