serve the community
How can I serve?
Discover all the ways you can serve the church and community whether on Saturdays or throughout the week.
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VPC Worship aims to help people experience God and love others through the use of music in Worship Gatherings. There are a variety of areas that work together to create the worship experience on Saturday mornings. If you are interested in participating as a musician or vocalist,CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT FORM
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Join the team who hosts and serves coffee, drinks, and snacks in the morning. This a fun and meaningful opportunity to help friends and guests build community.
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Ages 0–4: Join our Tiny Humans team and help teach class twice a month. With more volunteers, we can make Tiny Humans class a weekly event.
Ages 5–7: Join the Kindergarten team and help teach a weekly class.
Ages 8–12: Help us organize and start a class for older kids.
Ages 13–18: Join the Teens team and help teach a weekly class.
Because safety is our priority, we require all volunteers to go through a background check in order to serve.
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Help us create a warm and welcoming experience for all of our guests. Opportunities to serve include:
Set-Up Crew: this team arrives early to set up tables and chairs for Bible study and for the weekly meal downstairs. They help put tables and chairs away, and tidy the church after use on Sabbath.
Greeters: welcoming guests to VPC and creating a warm environment
Food Team: join the rotation of families who cook once a month for All Church Lunch. (Families are reimbursed for food purchases)
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Join the rotation of volunteers who arrive early to set up tables and chairs for lunch, turn on heaters, and unlock doors, preparing the facility for Sabbath worship.
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Join the team who helps create a smooth worship experience. Help in the areas of sound, visuals, and livestream.
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Have a ministry idea or community-building idea to create deeper relationships? Ideas could be anything from Bible study groups to organizing group sports or hikes. Let’s connect and make your vision a reality.
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Prayer Gathering occurs every Wednesday at 7pm, but the opportunities for prayer are endless. If you would like to initiate a prayer practice, submit the form as a first step.
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Partner with us to serve our local elementary school, Lowell Elementary.
Every year, we serve in various ways, including back-to-school prep, breakfasts, food drives, toy drives, and more. Click here to learn more.
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If you would like to help organize and set up a kid’s clothing ministry, fill out the form.
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On Labor Day weekend, we will go to Cal Anderson Park to pass out socks, soup, and sandwiches to our houseless neighbors. Will you consider contributing food or serving with us?
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VPC uses this fund to assist families in our congregation in times of need, and to support our friends in the city who are facing crisis.
MISSIONAL PARTNERS
Take a look at our missional partners to see what they’re doing in our community and ways you can serve and connect with our city, neighborhood, and schools.
Advent collegiate seattle
Location - Homes, Churches, and University Rooms
Serving - Seattle College and University Students
Advent Collegiate is a network of student-oriented communities in collaboration with Adventist Christian Fellowship (college clubs) and local Adventist Churches. It seeks to support students in their walk with Jesus. To learn more, contact Pastor John Leis at jleisiii@gmail.com.
seattle emergency hubs
Location - Volunteer Park Church (Board Room)
Serving - Capitol Hill Neighbors
A Seattle Community Emergency Hub is a pre-determined location where neighbors and community members are likely to gather to begin exchanging information and resources among themselves without outside assistance from City services. It has a core of trained volunteers with additional skills who can collect information on local situations, needs, and resources and assist in the allocation of resources to needs. Volunteer Park Church is the gathering location for monthly preparation and the hub for the North Capitol Hill area.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Location - Volunteer Park Church (Chapel)
Serving - Capitol Hill Neighbors
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Debtors’ ANONYMOUS
Location - Volunteer Park Church (Chapel)
Serving - Capitol Hill Neighbors
In Debtors Anonymous, thousands of members from diverse backgrounds and circumstances have found strong and lasting recovery from the disease of compulsive debting.
Beginning with a commitment not to incur unsecured debt one day at a time, we work the 12 Steps and find a recovery beyond anything we had previously imagined possible.