Local Serving Opportunities

Crystal Lake 100 South Main Street, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Español 67 Algonquin Rd Auditorio Lakeside (Entrada D), South Barrington, IL 60010 Huntley 38W133 Huntley Road, Dundee, IL 60118 North Shore 2200 Shermer Rd, Glenview, IL 60026 South Barrington 67 Algonquin Rd, South Barrington, IL 60010 South Lake 625 Barclay Blvd., Lincolnshire, IL 60069 Wheaton 900 N. Prince Crossing Rd., West Chicago, IL 60185

Local Partners
One-Time Serving Opportunities

For our communities

We believe in mobilizing the church to fight poverty and injustice so lives are transformed and Jesus is known. We come alongside God’s work to create sustainable, long-term, and holistic transformation that restores hope and dignity.

Compassion & Justice serving opportunities include:

Serving groups: Join a group to serve alongside others for 10 weeks at a time. Click here to view all of the opportunities.
Ongoing serving opportunities: We are focused on making the greatest impact in food security, helping vulnerable families, and restoring justice in our community. View campus-specific opportunities to serve with a local partner year-round.
One-time serving opportunities: View the one-time needs of our local partners, and mobilize your friends and family to join you in serving.

Food Security

Hundreds of thousands of our neighbors have limited or unreliable access to nutritionally adequate food in the Chicagoland area. You can participate in our food drives that resource our Care Center and partners, volunteer to pack seeds for global partners to provide nourishment & income, or check out campus-specific food insecurity volunteer opportunities below.

Restorative Justice

Transformation in our community requires radical hospitality and inclusion so that we can be part of the type of reconciliation that Jesus modeled for us. At Willow, we take part in restorative justice through countercultural, open-handed welcome, acceptance, and love.

Serve in our Prison & Jail ministry to provide hope to those who are incarcerated by joining a weekly or monthly visitation team, Pen Pal program, or a one-time serving opportunity in December to pack Christmas gifts for every incarcerated person in the Illinois State prison system.

Helping Vulnerable Families

Young people are the future leaders of our communities and churches. We want to help all young people thrive and use their gifts fully.

We serve where youth lack opportunities through schools, foster care systems, and youth programs. We hold annual school supply drives so students can succeed and we have ongoing serving opportunities to uplift young people.

Serving with Partners

God has given each of us gifts and passions that we can use to serve our community! Our C&J ministry is in relationship with a wide range of organizations that are fighting poverty and injustice so that lives are transformed, and Jesus is made known. We would love for you to take a next step in serving with one of them. Check out the various organizations we recommend, and get plugged into serving opportunities by clicking the links below:

Anti-Human Trafficking: Naomi’s House & Refuge For Women

Refugee & Immigration: World Relief & Exodus World Service

Housing: JOURNEYS & Fellowship Housing

Adoption & Foster Care: Safe Families

Chicago Organizations: Breakthrough & By The Hand

One-Time Serving Opportunities

Check out these top one-time serve opportunities!

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Exodus World Service

Fellowship Housing

Journeys | The Road Home

Naomi's House

My Half Non-Profit Kitchen

Serving Opportunity
Volunteers can assist with our fundraisers or work side by side with our employees overcoming hardship such as survivors of human trafficking, refugees, and addictions. We bake products for My Half of the Sky coffee house in Wheaton, every Monday from 12-5 pm. Volunteers are asked to commit to 2x/month in order to build relationships and support for local women who are healing from trauma.

Location: Wheaton

Date/Time: Mondays 12-5 p.m. or fundraisers through out the year

Want to serve?Email: Myhalfkitchen@yahoo.com (more details at www.Myhalfofthesky.org)

The Ruth Project

Serving Opportunity
Volunteer at The Storehouse – to help process clothing, equipment, and toy donations. Assist with childcare for shopping appointments, cleaning the Storehouse for families, prepare for support events, deliver meals, and more.

Volunteer at The Farm – Help with support events such as Family get-togethers, Teen Hangouts, mom & toddler events, and more! Hands on volunteering availbile to help with yardwork, greenhouse, painting, cleaning, meal teams, ect.

Prayer Team – Pray weekly through our zoom prayer meeting and join a texting list of prayer requests.

Location: Storehouse – Elgin, The Farm – Sycamore

Date/Time:
Storehouse: Tues, Weds, and Thurs

The Farm: Flexbile/ongoing (Especailly Friday nights, Tuesday mornings, Saturdays)

Prayer Team: Optional meeting, Tuesdays, 10 a.m.

Want to serve? RuthProject.com/volunteer

Prayer Team: https://ruthproject.com/getinvolved/volunteer/

Breakthrough Urban Ministries

Serving Opportunity
Volunteer at Breakthrough – an organization that partners with those affected by poverty to build connections, develop skills, and open doors of opportunity in Chicago.

Breakthrough 2024 Christmas Store – The Christmas Store provides a dignified way for 500 Garfield Park families to purchase gifts for their loved ones at a fraction of the cost. There are a variety of one-time opportunities to help set up the Christmas store.

Location: Garfield Park, Chicago

Date/Time:
Flexible

Want to serve? Email katie.gonzalez@willowcreek.org

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