Metropolitan Ministries is looking for volunteers during its busy holiday season.
“I have this motto that I live by, that’s to always do more for others than I do for myself,” said Ms. Grace.
Since high school, Grace has been volunteering her time with Metro Ministries. Around the holidays this year, she’ll be at the kid zone, tucked inside one of Metro Ministries’ holiday tents .
“It is massive. It’s like the size of a Walmart,” said Nathan Gula, Metro Ministries’ Director of Volunteer Services. “We distribute full meals for families for Thanksgiving, and then we do food as well as toys for the kids for Christmas.”
WFTS Metro Ministries will serve about 35,000 families between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and volunteers like Grace help pull it all off.
“A typical holiday season, we’ll see about 16,000 volunteers come through between our main tents, our community pop-ups, our campuses that are still fully operational all year,” said Gula.
Gula said the recent hurricanes shifted the need they saw in the community with their operations, which normally would’ve been preparing for the holiday season. Instead, they changed gears to the immediate needs they were seeing in the community.