community garden
Do you enjoy growing your own vegetables but don't have the space to do it? Our Community Garden is open to church members and the surrounding community as a way to help you bring healthy food to your dinner table or to bless others in need.
Ways to serve:
- Cultivate a plot in our garden to bless others in need.
- Serve as part of our Community Garden Leadership Team.
together for Good
Together for Good (TFG) connects volunteers from local churches with isolated parents and vulnerable children. They provide wrap-around, relational care that helps stabilize families, so they can move beyond a crisis.
Ways to serve:
- Host kids in your home.
- Deliver meals to a host family.
- Serve as a Parent Advocate (mentor).
- Provide rides for a family to attend a church service.
- Participate in one of our Family Bless Campaigns (i.e. Back-to-School backpacks, Easter baskets, and Christmas bags).
cross services
CROSS Services provides compassionate supportive care to people in the northwest metro who find themselves in great need. As a way to love our neighbors well, The Grove Church partners with CROSS in a variety of different ways.
Ways to serve:
- Participate in our October food drive.
- Volunteer onsite with the ministry.
Arrive Ministries
Arrive Ministries works in Minnesota to resettle refugees and immigrants by providing essential services and practical assistance.
Ways to serve:
- Serve on a wraparound team and help care for a refugee for a year.
- Mentor a refugee.
- Participate in our annual coat drive.
Zanewood Community School
The Grove Church loves our community well by serving the people in it. We regularly partner with Zanewood Community School to provide assistance and encouragement to the staff, teachers, and students.
Ways to serve:
- Provide supplies, clothing, or special needs items for Back-To-School Drive.
- Volunteer for a special school event.
- Send teacher appreciation cards and participate in a celebration lunch.
- Be an ongoing school volunteer or serve as a tutor or library helper (contact Zanewood to be added to their list).
CWC
CWC offers free medical and counseling services to women facing unplanned pregnancy. The clinic has served thousands of abortion-vulnerable women in the Twin Cities since 1992. Explore some ways to serve with this life-saving ministry.
Ways to serve:
- Participate in the annual Walk and Ride for Life
- Help stock the Baby Boutique, a valuable resource for new moms
- Volunteer at one of their large fundraising events
- Facilitate a Pathway to Parenting program, a year-long class that meets weekly
Kingdom Collective
Kingdom Collective is a collaboration of local churches in the northwest metro who serve our community in ways that demonstrate God's love through acts of kindness and meeting real needs.
Maple Grove Police Department
We partner with the local police department through community development efforts and by hosting training events that serve and strengthen those who protect our community. We also care deeply about the spiritual well-being of officers, staff, and their families and offer prayer, pastoral care, and spiritual support for those who desire it.
Ways to serve:
- Participate in community-wide education initiatives.
- Donate to a food or coat drive.
- Provide meals and encouragement for local law enforcement.
Mobile Hope
Mobile Hope works to build relationships, hope, and a culture of achievement within mobile home communities through education, healthy activities, resource connections, and faith development.
Ways to serve:
- Help with construction projects
- Tutor school children
- Volunteer at the annual Christmas party and/or help provide presents for all the residents
Our global partners
The Grove Church also supports missionaries who have planted themselves all around the world. We are proud to be a part of many Kingdom-focused ministries, from Bible translation to crisis response, to church planting and business-as-mission. Meet our partners below and sign up for our monthly Missions email! If you'd like more information, feel free to contact our office.
United States
In the US, we support partners involved in crisis response and trauma-care ministries, university campus outreach and discipleship, youth camps, and inner-city youth mentorship programs.
Africa
In Africa, our partners are involved in anti-trafficking work and church planting in difficult-to-reach locations.
Middle East
In the Middle East, our partners dream of seeing churches planted where the gospel isn't known, and they are engaged in personal evangelism and discipleship of new believers.
South America
In South America, we support partners who run a child sponsorship program and train local pastors and leaders.
Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, we support Bible translators, church planters, and teams who are training and encouraging local believers to become pastors and leaders in their communities.
Europe
In Europe, our partners provide aid to people in war-torn areas, plant churches, train pastors, and disciple new believers.