Volunteer Serving Teams Needed!
Loaves and Fishes of Minnesota needs your help. We have several openings for volunteer serving teams. A volunteer serving team is comprised of 8-15 members who prepare and serve the evening meal and perform clean up duties. Many serving teams also purchase the food for the meals. If your group is interested in volunteering as a serving team, please fill out our volunteer follow up form or contact us at loavesvol@loavesandfishesmn.org or by phone at 612-377-9810. Individuals interested in volunteering should contact the dining sites directly to inquire about openings. Thank you for your help.

Bloomington - Creekside Community Center
Third Wednesdays of ODD-numbered months
Third Thursdays of EVEN-numbered months
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Coon Rapids - Salvation Army Harvest Corps
Every Wednesday of every month

Minneapolis - Holy Rosary
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Minneapolis (North) - River of Life
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Minneapolis - St. Stephen's
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Richfield - Hope Church
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013

April is Volunteer Appreciation Month
April is Volunteer Appreciation Month. Loaves & Fishes would like to thank our 4000 volunteers for their years of service to the hungry of the Twin Cities!

About Volunteer Opportunities
Individuals interested in volunteering should contact the dining sites directly to inquire about openings.

Organizations and small groups interested in volunteering opportunities should contact Alexandra Andersen via e-mail at loavesvol@loavesandfishesmn.org. If your group is interested in starting a serving team please click here to fill out our online volunteer application form to get started. The volunteer application form is also available as a .pdf that can be printed, filled out and mailed to us. Please click here to download the .pdf version.

Click here to learn more about volunteering at Loaves and Fishes.

2013 Volunteer Picnic
On Sunday, September 22, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Loaves and Fishes will recognize our volunteers with a picnic at Como Park Midway Pavilion in St. Paul. More information will be provided as the event approaches.

Who Are Our Volunteers?
The vast majority of the 350 serving teams that make up the core of our volunteers come from faith-oriented organizations (about 80%). The remaining 20% come from community businesses, companies, civic groups like Rotary, Chambers of Commerce, American Legions, etc. With each serving team consisting of 8-15 members, the average number of volunteers at Loaves and Fishes at any given time is roughly 4,000. For thirty-one years (1982-2012) these volunteers have been the heart and soul of our organization. Many of the teams have been serving meals at least once a month for all thirty-one years. Many have served from ten to twenty years. All of the teams bring outstanding dedication and commitment of service that is beneficial to the organization and to our guests.

What Our Volunteers Do
Volunteering at Loaves and Fishes usually occurs through someone’s church, company or civic group affiliation wanting to help feed people in need at one of our ten dining sites. Someone generally helps to organize a group of between 8-15 volunteers so that once each month (or sometimes every other month) the group will purchase, prepare, and serve the food for the evening meal and clean-up afterwords. The number of meals served varies from site-to-site, however, 120 to 350 meals daily is the average range. Providing respite and hospitality to the guests from the communities is part of the evening meal service.

About Volunteering at Loaves & Fishes
Please click here to learn more about volunteering at Loaves & Fishes. We have put together a small Volunteer Handbook that describes many important details of the volunteer experience.

How to Become a Volunteer
Please fill out our volunteer follow up form or contact our central office during regular office hours and ask for the Volunteer Coordinator. You can also send us an e-mail at: loavesvol@loavesandfishesmn.org. Tell us why you and/or your group is interested in becoming a Loaves and Fishes volunteer. Please indicate the dining site where you would prefer to volunteer, how many are in your group and when you would be available. Those individuals who contact our office that are not part of a larger group can generally be scheduled to work with smaller groups that need members on a regular basis.

What Our Volunteers Have To Say
"I look forward to serving at River of Life every month. Our church has been serving the same meal since 1992 and love every minute of it."

"Everyone from our group gets so much pleasure from coming to Creekside once a month and serving the guests. We know many of them by name after all these years of serving."

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