Volunteer
Learn how we put unconditional love into practice by serving our community.
Learn how we put unconditional love into practice by serving our community.
New and existing volunteers can login to VolunteerHub to sign up for available shifts.
1. Fill out the volunteer application at the top of this page.
2. Someone from our staff will contact you to confirm your availability and approve your application.
3. Sign up for your volunteer shift! We can only accept volunteers during posted shifts on our website.
If you would like to volunteer as a group, please contact Alisa Newber at 910.794.9656 Ext. 116 after registering to volunteer.
Brothers and Sisters of Hope are mentorship programs designed to bring friendship, love, encouragement and hope to men and women experiencing homelessness. As a one on one program, every mentor will be partnered with a resident to build a relationship that supports their journey towards self-sufficiency.
To apply for Sisters of Hope, email us at info@firstfruitministries.org.
First Fruit Ministries (FFM) shares the unconditional love of God through food, shelter, and friendship with those experiencing homelessness and poverty in Southeastern North Carolina. Our local homeless community is familiar with First Fruit Ministries through continued outreach and service over the last two decades. The trust in these relationships overcomes the fears that many homeless people have regarding accessing professional services. First Fruit Ministries focuses on supportive housing for women and families and outreach programs such as street meal programs, food pantry service, and a day shelter which provides medical care, emergency services, and housing referrals.
The vision for First Fruit Ministries comes from Isaiah 58:6-7, “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”
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Our commission is to host the Presence of God that He may work through us toward our donors, our clients, and our community. First Fruit Ministries’ Urban Missionary Program is a training opportunity offering Christian believers the chance to serve in urban ministry, be trained by highly qualified and experienced leadership, and grow as sons and daughters of God through whom God’s unconditional love is shared with the most vulnerable people in our community. Missionaries come to live the Scriptures! All ministry flows from relationship. There are three pillars that help define the ministry philosophy at First Fruit Ministries: Sonship, Empowerment, and Communication.
Urban Missionaries are Christian believers who join FFM’s outreach and residential teams, care for others through faith and service, and mature through effectively ministering to those who are homeless or experiencing brokenness. This training opportunity focuses on establishing Urban Missionaries in their identities as sons and daughters of God, through whom God’s unconditional love is shared with the most vulnerable people in our community.
For more information on First Fruit Ministries’ Urban Missionary Program and application process,
please contact Alisa Newber at (910) 619-0345 or anewber@firstfruitministries.org.
Outreach and Engagement Center
Day Shelter: Help homeless friends access showers, enjoy Bible study, and share a community dinner on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Tuesdays: 9am-2pm
Thursdays: 9am-5pm
Showers
(help hand out towels and toiletries)
Thursday from 9am-3pm
Worship Service
(pray for and encourage each other)
Thursday at 3pm
Dinner Service
(serve hot meal in ministry dining room)
Thursday at 12:30pm at 4:30pm
Give out boxes of food and supplies to our homeless and low-wealth neighbors or host a food drive.
Meet at ministry campus and then go downtown to share hot meals with those living on the streets. (All volunteer spots filled).
Join the Sisters of Hope Mentorship Program to become a mentor to a woman or family leaving homelessness.
Collect tarps and tents for homeless neighbors in December
Provide Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner for 5.11 House residents (8-12 women)
Collect holiday food items for our Food Pantry
Collect coats, blankets, hats, scarves, or sleeping bags for homeless neighbors
Gift our 5.11 House residents with a robe, towel set, and comforter this Christmas
Collect diapers and wipes for our Moms' Food Pantry on Mondays
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