Volunteer with us!
Arrive Ministries is a Christian non-profit that partners with volunteers from local churches who share our mission of seeing refugees welcomed with the love of Christ.
Before you fill out this volunteer interest form, please attend one of our monthly Volunteer Interest Meetings.
For those who have recently attended an Interest Meeting, complete this form and a staff member will contact you!
Volunteer Opportunities
Walk alongside refugee and asylum seeking families for one year
The Good Neighbor program exists to equip, encourage and empower the church to walk alongside refugees and immigrants. Volunteers provide practical support and life skills to those who have been forced to flee their homelands: refugees, asylum-seekers, and humanitarian displaced people. This can be done as an individual, family or church team.
Host families in your home
Host homes. Short-term hosts provide housing to refugee individuals and families for 1 to 14 days when we are unable to find housing right away. Long-term hosts house an individual or family while they are in transition or unable to afford a home on their own. Interested? Fill-out this form
Teach English to adults with a refugee-background
English tutoring. Volunteers come alongside immigrant families to build friendship, share stories and help with literacy and English skills.
Provide homework help to school-age children
Befriend families through the avenue of homework help. Reading, writing, math, science… if tutoring in one of these subjects sounds fun, we have many families eager for your help! Spend time getting to know school-age kids while providing practical support.
Teach technology skills
Learning how to access and use technology is of critical importance for our new neighbors. Whether paying bills or finding employment, refugees and immigrants rely on technology to begin rebuilding their lives in the U.S. The Technology Empowerment Program partners volunteers with individuals eager to learn technology basics.
Teach sewing skills
Serve our refugee and immigrant neighbors through the universal language of arts and crafts. Our sewing classes exist as a creative space to develop new skills and friendships.
Opportunities to offer practical support to our staff and clients
Become a volunteer interpreter
Your willingness to help our staff or other volunteers with your interpretive skills will enable newly arrived refugee families & individuals to receive needed support during critical moments in cultural adjustment. We need volunteer interpreters for these languages (these are suggestions, not limited to the following): Somali, French, Lingala, Swahili, Tshiluba, and Kikongo (Kituba)
Become a media volunteer
Media volunteers help us by taking photos, producing videos, creating graphics to assist us in spreading the good word of what we are doing.
Volunteer in our donation room
Support our staff by organizing our warehouse of household items, made available to our refugee families.
Deliver furniture and set-up an apartment
Provide a warm welcome to an arriving refugee family by helping to prepare their first home in Minnesota. Along with our staff, help deliver and assemble beds, furniture and other household items. Interested? Fill-out this form
Host a Refugee Garden
Churches provide land and supplies for our new neighbors to be outside, grow familiar, healthy food, and cultivate friendships with others in their community. Learn how you can start a refugee garden at your church!
If you have an idea of ways to serve our immigrant neighbors not listed in our current volunteer opportunities, please contact us.
Volunteer opportunities at our regional sites
Arrive Ministries is a refugee resettlement agency providing essential services and practical assistance to refugees and immigrants to advance self-sufficiency. We mobilize volunteers, in partnership with local churches, to extend love and friendship to our new neighbors to promote thriving in a new homeland.