Why we serve
Seeking to love our neighbors like Jesus.
Following Jesus moves us toward people—with compassion, humility, and open hands. Some opportunities happen every week; others are seasonal or designed around a particular need.
You don’t need special experience to begin. Explore the opportunities below, then tell us where you’d like to help.
01 · Children & families
Stand beside families.
Offer encouragement, practical support, and moments of joy to children and caregivers in our community.
Children’s Home of Lubbock
Support children through tutoring meals, birthday-party boxes, and other special opportunities throughout the year.
Visit the Children’s HomeFamily Promise
Help families experiencing temporary homelessness by providing meals and childcare during community nights.
Foster & Adoption
Encourage foster, adoptive, and kinship families through Monterey and the local One Heart Foster Alliance.
Foster Parent Night Out
Give foster parents a restorative evening while their children enjoy supervised play, pizza, art, and activities.
Ask about volunteering02 · Practical care
Meet tangible needs.
Serve with your time, hands, and hospitality to make everyday life a little lighter for a neighbor.
Habitat for Humanity
Help strengthen Lubbock neighborhoods through new-home builds, including Monterey’s annual September Blitz Build.
Ask about the next buildHome Helpers
Provide yardwork, cleanup, and minor home repairs for older adults, widows, and single mothers in our church family.
Hope Lodge
Prepare and deliver weekly meals for cancer patients and their families staying at Lubbock’s Hope Lodge.
Join a meal teamMeals on Wheels
Deliver nourishing meals and a friendly visit to neighbors who are older, disabled, or unable to cook for themselves.
St. Benedict’s Chapel
Join a Monterey team serving Wednesday meals at this community church for neighbors experiencing poverty or homelessness.
03 · Belonging & inclusion
Make room for everyone.
Create welcoming spaces where people of every ability can know friendship, dignity, and belonging.
Fiesta Friday
Spend the last Friday of the month enjoying games, movies, and snacks with teens and adults who have special needs.
Volunteer with Fiesta FridaySpecial Needs Ministry
Assist or teach in our all-ages Sunday class, or connect with us if your family is looking for support and community.
Connect with the ministryThreads of Love
Sew comforting handmade items for families of premature infants and parents grieving pregnancy or infant loss.
Ask about joining04 · Restoration & hope
Walk with people toward hope.
Support ministries offering presence, recovery, dignity, and the transforming hope of Jesus.
Open Door
Serve alongside neighbors through block cleanups and support Christian community development for people experiencing homelessness and women rebuilding life after trafficking.
Explore Open DoorPregnancy & Post-Abortion Care
Find confidential counseling, professional care, and compassionate support for an unexpected pregnancy or after an abortion.
Visit ParkridgeTake a next step
You don’t have to know exactly where you fit.
Tell us what interests you, when you’re available, or simply that you’d like to help. We’ll connect you with a ministry leader.
Start a conversation