Community Ministries

The Children’s Home of Lubbock has blessed over 6,000 children through its various programs during its 50+ year history. In addition to Monterey’s financial partnership with the Children’s Home, our members engage the children living at the Children’s Home through tutoring meals, birthday party boxes, and other special opportunities throughout the year.

Family Promise seeks to restore the dignity, safety, and independence of families struggling with homelessness by providing a stable environment, case management, and connection to the community. As part of the Lubbock Family Promise effort, Monterey volunteers provide groceries and children’s activities four weeks each year. This is a chance to connect to families for long term relationship. To learn more contact us below.

Fiesta Friday is a fun night for teens and adults with special needs. On the last Friday of each month, we enjoy games, movies, and snacks together while caregivers enjoy an evening out. You will be so blessed to join us these nights, whether once or every month. Reach out below.

Monterey supports our foster, adoptive, and kinship community in a number of ways. One Heart Foster Alliance is a group of local churches working together to address the foster care crisis. Whether you are interested in foster or adoption (we have info classes), or just want to learn about other meaningful and effective ways to support children and families in care, contact us below.

Foster families require special childcare arrangements, which can be burdensome. Monterey hosts a monthly Foster Parent Night Out for moms and dads to refresh. To volunteer click below.

Lubbock’s Habitat for Humanity chapter is thriving, and Monterey is a proud partner. From new home builds to year round financial coaching, Habitat is helping to revitalize important neighborhoods in our city. Join us each September for our annual Blitz Build, and for periodic activities throughout the year. Join our contact list below!

Home Helpers serves the elderly, widows, and single moms in our church family by providing basic around the house labor (yard work, clean up, and minor home repair). Home Helpers meets one Saturday a month to scatter across the city and bless the lives of others. If you are in need of home help, or know someone who is, please make a referral here. To volunteer click below.

The American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge of Lubbock provides free lodging for patients traveling to Lubbock for cancer treatments. Since 2010, Monterey volunteer teams have provided meals and table-side service to families staying there. Teams serve on Wednesdays at 6:00pm every 12 weeks. Contact us below to volunteer.

Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers enter our prisons for a weekend of ministering to incarcerated individuals. Kairos believes that true rehabilitation starts with the “heart”. With this in mind, the ministry begins with volunteers who model and share God’s unconditional love, grace and mercy. Kairos “inside” weekends happen each May and November. To learn more about this ministry below.

Love Boxes is a ministry that helps church or work groups walk alongside children and families in foster care. After a brief application and orientation process, groups are matched with a local foster family to provide monthly care boxes for 12 months. The opportunity to interact is a tremendous blessing during an otherwise difficult phase of these children’s lives. Learn more below.

Monterey partners with Lubbock Meals on Wheels to deliver meals to residents who are disabled, elderly, or cannot cook for themselves. Lubbock Meals on Wheels serves over 700 meals each day, and over 160 meals each weekend in the Lubbock community. To learn more about this ministry contact us below.

Open Door is a home for the homeless and a family for the abandoned. Their programs serve the chronic and temporarily homeless (Permanent Supportive Housing, Medical Clinic, and Day Center), as well as sex- trafficked mothers with children (Survivor Housing). Open Door Church cultivates a community in Christ that seeks physical, spiritual, and emotional restoration. Learn more about Open Door through their quarterly Saturday orientation “Ministry With the Poor”.

Safe Families for Children is a voluntary alternative to foster care. Our Lubbock chapter opened November 2021. Safe Families supports vulnerable families at risk of entering the foster care system by equipping faith communities to wrap around individual families. To learn more, visit their website below..

St. Benedict’s Chapel is a church for the working poor and homeless and has been “Feeding Body and Soul” since 2007. St. Benedict’s is a ministry partnership of ten diverse churches in Lubbock and provides free meals to the community 7 days a week. Teams of volunteers from Monterey purchase, prepare, and serve a meal every Wednesday and some Tuesdays. Click below to learn more.

Special Needs Ministry longs to build a church culture where people of all abilities feel God’s unconditional welcome. We recognize the unique stresses faced by families with special needs, and we believe the church exists to surround and nurture these families in Christ. To teach a Sunday morning class, be a buddy, or co-teach, contact our special needs coordinator below. If you are a special needs family, please contact us with any questions. We are here to serve you.

Threads of Love is a sewing ministry that seeks to bless the families of premature infants as well parents of newborns who die due to stillbirth, miscarriage or infant death. This ministry desires to comfort and bind the hearts of parents during a time of uncertainty. To learn more contact us below.

Monterey seeks to be a safe place for young women walking through the difficulties of unexpected pregnancy and related challenges. Whether it’s confidential counseling, connection to professional care, or a compassionate confidant, we desire to stand with you as Jesus stands with us. To learn more, contact our ministry leader directly here (confidential) or visit Parkridge Pregnancy Center.