Join us for Pittsburgh’s largest celebration for the homeless on Saturday, November 19th in Allegheny Commons Park!

On Saturday, September 10th, the ministry held it’s annual carwash fundraiser. As you know, or goal was to garner $50 per car in donations, and we actually ended up around $67 per car! Thank you goes out to our volunteers who came out and enabled us to wash an amazing 178 cars! Thank you also goes out to all who made sponsorships and those who had their cars washed.
If you made a financial commitment towards the carwash, you can send your donation in to the following address:
L.I.V..I.N.G. Ministry
2536 …

The following one-time events are open to everyone! Take a look at what we have coming up, if you would like to serve alongside of us please contact Jenna Burdette at volunteer AT livingministry DOT org.
Also be sure to take a look at our ongoing volunteer opportunities for information about repeating programs!

Fall is a busy time at L.I.V.I.N.G. Ministry, have no doubts about that. The past three months saw three major mailings, a work day, the clothing sorting, ALIVE, and a job fair! With all this on top of our regular volunteer events like labor halls and shelter visits it’s hard to imagine what it means to sit still. Thank you to all of our volunteers who made the last three months not only possible – but a real success!

Mailings
In October we sent out a newsletter, and …

About two months ago Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sent a flyer to the office addressed to the volunteer coordinator. The paper was accepting nominations for the Jefferson Award: an award given to volunteers that display heroism in their service. Past national winners of the Jefferson award include Colin Powell, Sandra Day O’Connor, Oprah Winfrey, Peyton Manning, Jimmy Carter and many other household names.
After a short discussion it became clear that we had a Jefferson Award quality volunteer in our midst: Weiting Zhang. Weiting is a former intern of the …

September was a busy month here at the L.I.V.I.N.G. Ministry! We held our annual car wash, held our first zero-staff Labor Hall, and hosted two successful workdays on the house. Read on to see how our volunteers made a difference in Pittsburgh this month.

September 9th: All Volunteer Labor Halls
We reached an exciting milestone with this one! As our entire staff was in Chicago for the CCDA annual conference about urban ministry we held our very first entirely volunteer lead Labor Hall. Our goal is to train …

It’s fall again, and as is our custom, we are preparing for our next ALIVE celebration. For the past 7 years we have been throwing the best party for the homeless Pittsburgh has ever seen! To make this year’s celebration the best ever, we will need your help. Last year we had 200 volunteers. Praise God! This year we will need even more to do this great work. If you like to pass out clothes, prepare food, play board games, sing worship, or pray with people, then we have a …

August was the month of unsung heroes here at LIVING Ministry! Many times the work our volunteers do involves a big project: demolition on a house, making breakfast at 5:00 in the morning, spending a few hours at a shelter. Without volunteers helping to do these jobs, we simply couldn’t do what we do here. But this past month we needed a whole different breed of volunteer: someone who would come in and quietly do some organizing, make some phone calls, and type resumes up. These …

In September, we will be having our annual car wash fundraiser to help raise the necessary funds to continue to serve the homeless here in Pittsburgh. We’ll be at the Busy Beaver in West Mifflin and the Busy Beaver in Crafton washing cars all day on Saturday, September 11th. Our plan is to run the event as a carwash-a-thon where people sponsor a certain amount for every car that we washed.
We’re trying to get to $80 per car committed before the carwash on September 11th. For that to happen, we …

For the last 3 years, the L.I.V.I.N.G. Ministry been hosts of a revolutionary job fair. This job fair is unlike any other job fair around. Instead of just setting up tables and having people show up and meet employers, we hold a ‘closed’ job fair, where all of our prospective employees receive job training skills (budgeting, resume writing, conflict resolution, and interviewing skills). These skills help prepare them so that they are a step ahead of other jobseekers when they speak with employers. This always makes a better transition and …