Volunteer
On Campus Volunteer Opportunities
For questions, contact Robyn Snow at (530) 242-5920 ext. 125 or email rsnow@gnrm.org
Click here to become a Good News Rescue Mission volunteer
Kitchen Dishwasher
This role supports kitchen operations by ensuring all dishes, utensils, and kitchen equipment are cleaned and sanitized. By serving in this position, you directly help our kitchen staff who prepare hundreds of meals per day.
Kitchen Driver and Driver’s Assistant
These key roles are responsible for food donation pick-ups from our partner organizations. This allows us to prepare the 400-800 meals we serve daily for the men and women coming through our doors in despair, looking for food and shelter.
Click here to see Job Description for Kitchen Driver and Driver’s Assistant
Kitchen Prep and Food Server
This role supports daily meal service with food prep work, minor kitchen cleaning, rotating food supplies, and serving meals. By serving in this position, you directly help our kitchen staff who prepare hundreds of meals per day.
Distribution Center Donation Drop-Off and Thrift Store Attendant
This role helps process incoming donations, organize the thrift store, and oversee the guest checkout area. No cash handling is required. By serving in the position, you become an instrumental part of providing those in need with clothing, shoes, and care items.
Click here to view Job Description for Distribution Center Attendant
Office Cleaner
The Cleaning Support Volunteer will be in charge of light cleaning duties within our administrative office spaces. This is an important behind-the-scenes role in supporting the Mission’s work serving individuals experiencing homelessness and discipleship programs.
Click here to view Job Description for Volunteer Cleaning Support
Event Support
The Good News Rescue Mission puts out nearly a dozen yearly events, one of them being our biggest fundraiser, Harvest of Hope. If you’d like to join in on the fun and help with event decoration and organization, please sign-up to volunteer.
Academic Support and Mentoring
Our Academic Center is dedicated to cultivating an environment for educational development, life skills, and workforce training to serve the students and guests of the Mission, offering classroom instructors which consist of highly qualified educators, business owners and retired executives. Mentors are also needed to come along side the men in our Bridge Discipleship Program. If you would like to pour into people and make connections, this would be a great opportunity to that.
Click here to fill our Volunteer Application Form
Holiday Volunteer Opportunities
Holiday Decorator
This fun role will be involved with decorating our Dining Hall with holiday decorations on a monthly basis. This creates a more welcoming space in our Dining Hall where we serve 400-800 meals daily. Think hearts in February and flowers in May. It’s even more fun if you get a friend and do it together.
Holiday Event Support
November and December are some of our busiest months. We need help with our Thanksgiving and Christmas banquets, our turkey drives, the Christmas toy store, and the coat turkey giveaways.
Off-Campus Volunteer Opportunities
Host A Drive
Hosting a food drive or collection is one of the most impactful ways to provide for our community’s most vulnerable men, women, and children. It’s an easy process and gets your community rallying together for a good cause.
