• Serve Week Sign Ups

    Thank you for serving the city with your Community! Scroll down for opportunities to sign up for, and reach out to serve@bridgetown.church with any questions.

  • Because People Matter

    https://bpmpdx.org/

  • Because People Matter is an organization that offers tangible and relational support to vulnerable communities in Portland. Bridgetown has partnered with BPM to serve at Night Strike, to offer lunches via lunch drop to our houseless neighbors, and more.

    Night Strike operates under the Burnside Bridge offerring services like meals, haircuts, blankets, pet food and more. 

    Location: Meet us at Liberation Street Church, 214 W Burnside Street
    Time: Approx 6:30 – 9:30 PM

    Note: if you'd like to sign up to attend Night Strike another time, you can do that here.

    Downtown Walkabout: Prior to meeting, you or your group will assemble  bagged lunches (a sandwich, fruit, snack, water bottle, etc.). On Sunday, you will then go alongside a team from BPM to hand the lunches out to our houseless neighbors downtown.

    Location: TBD by BPM group leader

    Time: 3:30 – 5 PM

    What's next after sign up? Casey will connect you with Because People Matter directly, and a representative will reach out to you with directions.

    Buy Supplies: You can also support BPM by buying supplies off their Amazon Wish List.

  • CityTeam's Vision: Restoring lives and rebuilding communities through innovative programs which provide food, shelter, clothing, training, and spiritual transformation.

    Through CityTeam, you can either assemble hygeine kits which will provide dignity and basic self care products to those who need them, or offer kitchen prep help for meal service to those in CityTeam programs.

    TO SIGN UP: Click Here

    Location: 526 SE Grand Ave

    Time: 3 – 5 PM or 5:30 – 7:30 PM

    What's next after sign up? By signing up through the link above, you'll receive all the information you need.

    Buy supplies: You can also support CityTeam by buying items from their Amazon Wish List.

  • Love Your Neighbor: a CityTeam / Because People Matter Collaboration

  • One Saturday per month, BPM and CityTeam partner to coordinate a Love Your Neighbor monthly outreach on the East Side from 12-2pm. This collaborative event focuses on creating a relational environment in which our unsheltered friends and our volunteers can gather on the east side and share stories. We provide clothing, hygiene kits, blankets, hair cuts and more. This event is also largely organized and operated by the men in City Team's Renew Recovery Program. 

    SIGN UP HERE: Join on October 23 or November 13 by clicking here.

    What's next after sign up? By signing up through the link above, you'll receive all the information you need.

  • Portland Rescue Mission: Home Beautification

    https://portlandrescuemission.org/

  • Portland Rescue Mission offers a variety of relational services to the vulnerable populations in Portland, including addiction recovery, shelter, food services, vocational training, and more.

    One of the programs PRM offers is Community Houses. At Community Houses, women and women with children who have completed PRM's 1-year program have the opportunity to receive training and support in a community residence with other graduates to establish an independent living and sustain addiction recovery.

    PRM has acquired a new house in SE Portland, and could use help turning the house into a home with projects like painting, cleaning, light handiwork, assembling furniture such as cribs, and more.

    Sign up below and we'll follow up with you with more information as well as the home address. This project is available between 5:30–8, and can accomodate up to 15 people at a time. 

    Location: East Portland (address will be given after sign up)

    Time: Between 5:30 and 8pm, to be arranged with PRM representative

    What's next after sign up? Next week, Casey will connect you directly with Portland Rescue Mission's project manager for this home, who will send you the address and set up arrival time with you.

  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon & SW Washington provides access to medical care, a home away from home, and a community of support for seriously ill or injured children and their families.

    This project entails offerring a home cooked meal to families whose children staying in the hospital. For health reasons, all meals must be prepared onsite. Plan to prepare the meal for 25 people. This is a great way to seriously love people going through a difficult time by offering a good meal.

    Note: this project can accomodate up to 4 volunteers present, and volunteers must be fully vaccinated. For your group, this may mean the whole group funds and plans the meal, and 4 people who are available during the shift (4pm to 7pm).

    If none of these times work for you and you would like to get involved with this group, reach out to Kara about preparing a freezer meal.

    Location: 2620 N. Commercial Ave.

    Time: 4pm – 7pm

    What's next after sign up? Casey will connect you with with the Meals Coordinator via email directly.

    Buy Supplies: You can support this organization by buying items from their Amazon Wish List.

  • Provide Tangible Support and Goods

    If for some reason serving in person is not possible at this time for your group, that is okay! Consider dedicating a group night to building kits for one of our long term partners.

  • Every Child PDX

    https://everychildpdx.org

  • Every Child PDX mobilizes communities to love and serve those impacted by the foster care system, from children to foster and bio families to case workers. At this time, Every Child expressed Bridgetown could best help by buidling Flash Boxes, buying essentials for kdis spending extended periods of time at ODHS branches, or by blessing case workers at your local branch.

    Flash Boxes: a Flash Box is a surprise dose of encouragement for foster families in our community. At this time, the greatest need is Flash Boxes for families fostering teenagers. For information about how to build a box, click here. Completed boxes can be dropped off at Bridgetown Sunday – Thursday.

    Buy Essentials for your ODHS Branch: Help stock each office with diapers, wipes, and cleaning supplies. Use this link, scroll down to the options with a house icon, and get shopping!

    Bless your Branch by Showing Hospitality: Encourage your local ODHS office by providing a luncheon, coffee cart, putting together goodie bags for the staff, or even writing note cards of encouragement. Note: A new requirement per ODHS is that anyone entering the building must show proof of vaccination.

  • Refugee Care Collective

    https://refugeecarecollective.org

  • Refugee Care Collective provides transformative care to refugees resettled in Portland, Oregon, through mobilizing the city. They do this through restart kits, in-home English tutoring, family mentorship, youth mentorship programs, and through partnership with local resettlement agencies.

    One way you can help is by builing a Restart Kit: Refugees arrive to Oregon with few possessions, and have to quickly build their lives again. Restart kits are plastic tubs filled with essential household items. A complete set is formed by eight unique restart kits, one for each area of the home. The kits are distributed to local resettlement agencies, service providers, and community members who give them directly to newly arrived families and those in need.

    Click here for more information about how to build a kit. Kits can be dropped off at Bridgetown Sunday – Thursday.

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