On the first Sunday of each month, Granville Chapel
collects a special "Meet the Need” offering, for those in need in
Vancouver. The Meet the Need committee is responsible for
administering the funds from the Meet the Need offering,
and for encouraging members of Granville Chapel to volunteer their
time in service.
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life
for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If
anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has
no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children,
let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."
1 John 2: 16-18
We currently support eight ministries:
City Gate Leadership Forum
(formerly Shalom Seekers)
A faith-based intermediary that informs, equips, and
coordinates organizations and people in Metro Vancouver to embrace
the biblical call to seek the welfare of the city.
Volunteers are needed to help with web design for a
national clearinghouse website of Christian ministries and volunteer
opportunities.
Gather and Give
Gather and Give
connects people with resources with those in need, providing home
essentials to low income individuals and families. Gather and
Give also partners with over 80 front-line agencies providing
essential goods and support to the community.
Volunteers are needed for packing and delivering home
essentials kits; sorting and organizing donations; making quilts;
fundraising; administration; and hosting goods drives.
JustWork Economic Initiative
Physical disabilities, mental illness, homelessness
and addictions are barriers to finding appropriate, steady
employment. Persons facing such barriers are often marked as
unemployable.
For people facing multiple barriers to the traditional workforce,
JustWork fosters dignified, gainful work opportunities
through the development of social enterprises. Because social
enterprises are hybrid organizations focused on both social and
economic outcomes, they can offer safe places of employment with
more flexible work hours and job expectations and work experience
and skill development enabling a transition to more regular job
situations.
Just Work has 4 different employment opportunities:
JustGarden, JustCatering, JustPotters and
JustRenos.
Customers are needed to buy pottery, and hire the
gardening, catering and renovation services.
Kinbrace House
Kinbrace House
welcomes refugee claimants new to Vancouver by providing
transitional housing support and advocacy through relationships and
hospitality. Kinbrace House is actually two houses, side by
side, comprised of a number of separate suites, including several
single occupancy rooms and larger suites for families. Refugee
claimants typically live at Kinbrace for three months to a year as
they begin to settle and find their way into life in Canada. Two
families live in the houses on a permanent basis and make up
Kinbrace's Core Community of welcome and hospitality.
Volunteer opportunities include helping with ESL and homework
tutoring for children, or becoming a "Friend of Kinbrace”:
committing to attending the weekly community dinners and developiing
relationships with the refugees.
Open Door
The East Vancouver Open Door is a community that meets
weekly on Wednesday mornings at Grandview Calvary Baptist Church to
empower single mothers through emotional, physical and spiritual
support. Free licensed childcare and lunch are provided, as well as
Bible Study and other activities for the mothers.
Volunteers are needed to help with set-up (9:00-9:30am); lunch
planning, shopping, or preparation; child care; leading Bible Study;
arts and crafts workshops; prayer support; mentoring mothers; and
cleanup (12:30-1pm).
Out of the Cold
Out of the Cold provides a free dinner and a place to sleep
on Thursday nights as part of the Crossroads ministry at Grandview
Calvary Baptist Church, welcoming society's marginalized; nurturing
spiritual, physical, emotional and social growth within ourselves
and those we befriend; promoting fair and unprejudiced treatment of
our friends; advocating for change of the unjust structures of
society; and loving our neighbours through concrete actions.
Volunteers are needed to help with cooking and serving dinner.
Granville Chapel is responsible for providing volunteers for the
meal preparation on the first Thursday of every month, contact
Debra Barnes (ddbarnes2007@gmail.com)
if you are interested.
Urban Promise
Supports and nurtures children, youth and young adults in
under-resourced neighbourhoods, seeking to encourage their long-term
academic, social, spiritual, leadership and personal development by
modeling healthy relationships, offering diverse opportunities,
providing a variety of creative programs and sharing the principles
of the Christian faith. Urban Promise has 3 after-school programs,
Camp Hope, Camp Peace and Camp Grace, as well as summer day camps.
Volunteers are needed to help children with homework, crafts etc at
the after school programs.
Vancouver Crisis Pregnancy Centre
Located just up the street from Granville Chapel, the Crisis
Pregnancy Centre provides a lifeline of hope for people facing
an unplanned pregnancy. Practical help and counseling are available
for pregnant women and couples, and for anyone with post-abortion
concerns. For up to 2 years after the baby is born, CPC provides
supplies to the family (diapers, clothes, formula, etc).
Volunteers are needed to sort donations, and counsel clients
(training provided).