When: First full week of each month at 11:00 a.m.
Where: 4 Calhoun Avenue, Rome, GA 30161

Community Kitchen serves free lunch weekdays at 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Parking for volunteers is available at North Rome Baptist (across the street). Rome FUMC is responsible for the first week of every month.

Contact: Melanie Baker (Mgbaker57(at)comcast.net) - (706) 346-6695

Volunteer opportunities: Food preparations, Serving & Cleanup (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
Food pickup on 3rd Tuesdays
Groups can schedule times to prepare food on weekends
Donations needed: Food and Money

When: One Saturday each month from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Where: Church Nursery and Wilder Center

Foster parents cannot just leave their children with neighbors to run to the grocery store. Background checks, drug screens, and fingerprint IDs are required of everyone who watches foster children, regardless of personal familiarity with the children's guardians. Friends of Foster Families offers these families a much needed break from the unique demands of giving care in a foster setting. Games, crafts, recreation, and lunch are shared with the children, who are divided into age-appropriate groups.

Contact: Allison Watters (allisonwatters(at)bellsouth.net) - (706) 378-4143
Volunteer opportunities: Volunteers needed to care for and play with children (ages infant-18), greet parents, or help with food preparation. Volunteers can sign up for a 2 or 4 hour shift.
Donations: Food donations are appreciated

Provides free carry-out dinners Tuesday nights at 5 p.m. at First Christian Church. First Methodist is responsible for the first Tuesday of the month on a quarterly basis.

Contact: Cathy-Aiken Freeman (aikfree(at)aol.com) - (706) 512-0268
Volunteers meet on Monday at church kitchen to prepare 400 sandwiches, and on Tuesday at 4 p.m. to pack sack dinners and distribute.

When: Monday nights at 6 p.m.
Where: Rome FUMC in Youth room and Lounge area (old library)

NAMI is open to all idividuals with mental illness and their families and/or caretakers. NAMI Rome provides monthly educational meetings, peer support group, family support group, family education course (Family to Family), peer education course (Peer to Peer), annual picnic, and annual Christmas party.

Contact: Jim Moore (jmbm71(at)bellsouth.net) - (706) 232-4607
Volunteer opportunities: Help set up and entertain at annual picnic in May at Rolater Park in Cave Spring and Christmas party in December at Rome FUMC.
Donations: call Jim Moore for donations needed at these two events

Minister in the Floyd County Jail. If you have a deep love for the Lord and a desire to see His people free, consider joining the other jail ministers on Tuesday or Thursday nights or Sunday mornings. You don't need to have any experience and we won't send you in alone. Come along as an observer or prayer warrior and see if the Holy Spirit doesn't give you a special word to share. All that is needed is a background check. Ask for a form and we will submit it for you.

Contact: Vance Simpson - (706) 506-8483

When: Third Saturday each month
Evangelism, preaching, singing, and Bible distribution

Sign up to receive emails about upcoming Street Ministry events and join us as we share the Gospel on the streets. Take part in the Great Commission to spread the Gospel right here in your own hometown. No experience is necessary to share, simply a deep love and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and a willingness that others would also know him.

Contact: Vance Simpson - (706) 506-8483
Donations: sponsor a case of bibles for $50; sponsor a Saturday feeding for $100; donate to and/or volunteer for the Clothes Closet at Third Street Ministries: www.thirdstreetministries.org
514-B Avenue A, Rome, GA 30161 - (706) 225-9121

Rome FUMC co-sponsors a transitional house with Rome Action Ministries. Located in the Riverside community, the house provides shelter and support for a homeless family for up to two years. Our church family will help with our friendship, material and financial resources and our knowledge about making a household budget, saving money and making good life decisions. We are guided and assisted in our outreach by Michelle Corntassel who is the local transitional housing case manager.

Contact: Tim Galloway (jtgalloway(at)hotmail.com) - (706) 346-8144
Any specific needs for our family will be posted

Men of all ages make a difference with projects that matter

Contact: Jim Moore (jmbm71(at)bellsouth.net) - (706) 232-4607
Volunteer opportunities: Men to respond to the need to be spiritual leaders and to provide a service to others through outreach.

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