Volunteer
Serve with Grace Avenue
This is a list of our current volunteer opportunities. There are a variety of ways you can make a difference in the community or around the church at any age and skill level. If you’d like to know more about our Grace Avenue Mission Programs and Partners, head to graceavenue.org/missions.
Ministries
Locations
Time Commitment
Activity Level
Frisco Helpers
Frisco Helpers is a group of seniors helping other seniors around the Frisco area with minor home maintenance and repairs. It is largely made up of folks from our Grace Avenue community, and they always need more hands to make light work! If you consider yourself handy with tools, put your skills to use in service to our neighbors. Frisco Helpers meet at Grace Avenue UMC in Frisco every Thursday morning at 8:15am, then split into groups of 2-3 to their assigned projects. If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact David Coles at decoles047@gmail.com. If you’d like to know more or might need some assistance from the Frisco Helpers, head to friscohelpers.org.
Sanctuary Worship Usher
Our Sanctuary Worship ushers are the first interaction people have as they walk in the door, and we want to greet them warmly! Volunteer to be the smiling face that opens the door for them and helps them find a seat. You can volunteer as often as you want and at whichever service works best for you (9:15am or 10:30am). Contact Rev. Laura Echols-Richter at laura@graceavenue.org with questions and to get on the usher team for Sanctuary Worship.
If you’re interested in being an usher for Modern Worship, please contact Rev. Karyl Patredis at karyl@graceavenue.org.
Modern Worship Usher
Our Modern Worship ushers are the first interaction people have as they walk in the door, and we want to greet them warmly! Volunteer to be the smiling face that opens the door for them and helps them find a seat. You can volunteer as often as you want and at whichever service works best for you (9:15am or 10:30am). Contact Rev. Karyl Patredis at karyl@graceavenue.org with questions and to get on the usher team for Modern Worship.
If you’re interested in being an usher for Sanctuary Worship, please contact Rev. Laura Echols-Richter at laura@graceavenue.org.
Media Booth Volunteer
Are you good with technology or looking to build a new skill? Whether you can click a button to change the slides, monitor the cameras for the best angle, or know how to balance a sound board, there are jobs for every skill level. If you’d like to help out with running the media or sound in the Sanctuary, contact our Director of Media, Preston Reid, to volunteer. You can email him at Preston@graceavenue.org. Training will be available, and you can do one or both services.
I Belong
I Belong is a 501(c)(3) organization that has partnered with Grace Avenue to create a space where preteens and young adults with disabilities can experience and build community through creative arts. We need loving and caring individuals over the age of 16 to be part of the volunteer team. Volunteers will serve as greeters and friendly companions while the participants engage in their activity and recreation time.
The group meets on the 1st Saturday of each month at Grace Avenue. Your help will be needed from 2:30-6:00pm.
Contact Kristen Lane at Klane@graceavenue.org with questions.
Buttons & Bows
2nd Saturdays | 9:00-11:00am
Colin Powell Community Center (520 Lobo Ln, Little Elm)
Buttons & Bows is a clothing closet run by Building the Bridges Community Services out of the Colin Powell Community Center that supports foster families, adoptive families, and those with kinship placements in their homes.
We need your help at the distribution to find the perfect outfit for kiddos in our community! Come help sort and hang donations and welcome families as they shop. Contact Keri Keck at keri@graceavenue.org with questions.