Seamen’s Church Institute offers many volunteer opportunities for those living near our mission sites or around the country. Contact us to find out how you can helps or to locate specific volunteer opportunities in your area. Here are just a few ways you can volunteer:
- Knitting
- Ship Visiting (NY & NJ)
- Collecting items for mariners
- Making hand-made Christmas and Easter cards
- Collecting hard candy for river mariners and Easter-at-Sea
- Greeting cruise ship workers (NY & NJ)
- Collecting books and videos for river mariners
- Organizing a new Bible drive for seafarers
- Putting mariners on your congregation’s prayer list
- Bringing food for a pot luck Kaibigan (friendship) night with seafarers (NJ)
- Packing for Christmas on the River or Easter on the River
- Collecting calendars for seafarers
- Be a docent at the Water Street Gallery
- Become a River Chaplain Associate