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 families for one year
Good Neighbor volunteers provide practical support and life skills to those who have been forced to flee their homelands. This can be done as an individual, family or team.
Teach English to immigrant adults
English tutoring volunteers come alongside immigrant families to build friendships and help with literacy and English skills.
Teach technology skills to immigrant adults
Technology volunteer tutors teach our new neighbors how to access the internet and the basics of using technology. Whether paying bills or finding employment, refugees and immigrants rely on technology to begin rebuilding their lives.
Apartment Set-Up
Provide a warm welcome to an arriving refugee family by helping to prepare their first home in Minnesota. Along with our staff, deliver beds, furniture, and other household items. This is an opportunity for individuals, families, or small groups who want to love our new neighbors in this practical way.
Host families in your home
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.
Citizenship Tutor
Coach, encourage, and review citizenship questions with an immigrant neighbor in the 3-4 months leading up to their citizenship examination and interview.
Employment Mentor
Assist an immigrant neighbor as they search for jobs, update their resumes, prepare for interviews, and share cultural expectations on appropriate dress, promptness, and communication styles in the workplace.
Opportunities to offer practical support to our staff
Become a volunteer interpreter
Share your interpretive skills and enable newly arrived refugees to receive needed support during critical moments in cultural adjustment. We need volunteer interpreters for Swahili, Somali, French, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Ukrainian, Russian (these are language suggestions).
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. (This opportunity is temporarily paused.)
Volunteer opportunities at our regional sites
