Volunteer Groups

Our formidable volunteer network creates an environment that nurtures the basic well-being of our guests, giving them food, shelter and socialization, dignity and respect.

Site Congregations

• Euclid Avenue United Methodist Church, Oak Park
• First United Church of Oak Park
• First United Methodist, Oak Park
• Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park
• Grace Lutheran Church, Elmwood Park
• Oak Park Temple, Oak Park
• Resurrection Lutheran Church, Franklin Park
• St. Eulalia Catholic Church, Maywood
• St. John's Lutheran, Forest Park
• St. Mary of Celle, Berwyn
• Greater Chicago Church (formerly Vineyard), Oak Park

Site congregations house the Emergency Shelter one or two nights a week during the regular shelter season.

Support Congregations

Support Congregations staff the shelter and/or prepare and serve breakfast, lunch and/or dinner for shelter guests.

• Ascension Catholic Church, Oak Park
• Ascension Youth Group, Oak Park
• Berwyn United Lutheran, Berwyn
• Church of Christ, Maywood
• Euclid United Methodist Church, Oak Park
• Fair Oaks Presbyterian, Oak Park
• First Congregational Church of Berwyn, Berwyn
• First United Methodist, Oak Park
• First United Church of Forest Park, Forest Park
• First United Church of Oak Park, Oak Park
• Galewood Community Church, Chicago
• Good Shepherd Lutheran, Oak Park
• Grace Lutheran Church, Elmwood Park
• Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest
• Grace Episcopal, Oak Park
• Mater Christi Church, Riverside
• Maywood Church of Christ
• Neighborhood United Methodist Church, Maywood
• Oak Park Society of Friends, Oak Park
• Oak Park Temple, Oak Park
• Pilgrim Congregational U.C.C., Oak Park
• Progressive Life Giving Word, Hillside
• Resurrection Lutheran Church, Franklin Park
• River Forest UMC, River Forest
• Rock of Ages Baptist Church, Maywood
• St. Bernardine Catholic Church, Forest Park
• St. Catherine-St. Lucy, Oak Park
• St. Celestine, Elmwood Park
• St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, Oak Park
• St. Eulalia Catholic Church, Maywood
• St. Frances of Rome Catholic Church, Cicero
• St. Giles Catholic Church, Oak Park
• St. Giles Family Mass, Oak Park
• St. Edmund Catholic Church, Oak Park
• St. James Community Baptist Church
• St. John Lutheran, Forest Park
• St. John Lutheran Youth Group Ministry, Forest Park
• St. John Lutheran School, Forest Park
• St. Leonard, Berwyn
• St. Luke Presbyterian, River Forest
• St. Mary of Celle, Berwyn
• St. Odilo, Berwyn
• St. Paul Lutheran, Forest Park
• St. Paul Lutheran Church, Melrose Park
• St. Peter United Church of Christ, Chicago
• St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest
• St. Williams, Chicago
• Third Unitarian, Chicago
• Vineyard, Oak Park
• Unitarian Universalists, Oak Park
• United Lutheran, Oak Park
• West Suburban Har Zion Temple, River Forest