Importance of Visitors
Volunteer teams and interns play strategic roles in strengthening Samaritan’s Place. FSP helps recruit, sponsor and guide volunteers toward trip schedules and events. We make sure volunteerism makes a difference, especially for the kids.
FSP believes volunteers should also experience positive impact. Whether completing education credits, or simply taking a big step in personal growth, FSP’s model of facilitating short-term volunteers is designed with an understanding of deploying people for maximum benefit. Visiting SP is important! When you help SP, you help yourself as well!
Volunteers assist in many ways, including but not limited to work projects, tutoring children, relief substitute for staff, coordinating VBS, Sportsfest, sports clinics, play therapy, teaching English, or completing studies in social work or child development. Serving at Samaritan’s Place is rewarding and life changing!
For information or an application (team or individuals), please email: info@samaritansplace.com.
Teams
Got a group of people with big hearts to serve? Why not mobilize a group of five to fifty (5 – 50) people, whether from church, your school or mission agency, who are willing to:
- Implement an Annual Event (see next section)
- Work on construction or maintenance projects
- Conduct education assessments or specialized trainings
- Implement sports clinics or outreaches to schools
- Assist with Kidz Klub or conduct a VBS for community kids
- Sing, play instruments, or offer training in music
- Bring your choir or ensemble to perform in churches and malls
- Serve the local community via Hope-Filled Connections
- Enjoy recreation time with the SP children and staff
- Spend time with and just love on the SP kids and workers!
Hope-Filled Connections– is Samaritan’s Place official outreach strategy of community development. This catalyst approach involves mobilization, education, and health improvement activities.
Annual Events
Every year, series of fun activities and celebrations are scheduled to bless SP's children and staff.
No form of help, no matter how small or big, is ever wasted!
Here’s a list of annual events that you or your friends may want to join:
January – Vision Trip
February– Staff Valentines Banquet
March/April – Easter Celebration
May/June – Sports Fest
October – Hallelujah Costume Party Night
Nov/December – CHRISTmas Celebration party & Gift Giving
Vision Trip
Expand your understanding and enlarge your heart to see the need and opportunities for ministry. Embrace our dream and team! Consider becoming a Friend of SP!
Valentines Banquet
Decorate, cook a sumptuous meal, serve and entertain the SP Staff for the evening. It’s FSP’s way of coming along side SP’s Founders in thanking the staff and saying, “We love you!”
Easter Celebration
Watch a glorious sunrise on SP’s Home Unit V rooftop! Join with SP staff and kids in singing and celebrating our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Sportsfest
The love of sports is universal. Community kids and SP’s orphans love to compete as teams- red, yellow, blue and green – in volleyball, basketball, tug-o-war, 5-meter dash, and much more. SP maximizes this mini-Lympics opportunity to invite children to Kidz Klub (bi-weekly outreach) and show the love of Christ.
Hallelujah
Talk about fun. Watch SP kids don super hero costumes and celebrate life. Help organize, plan and implement this special alternative party. Prepare food, games and a fun-filled program that reinforces good values and character. SP kids are super heroes in the making!
Christmas Celebration
The perfect Christmas gift is to see the smiles and twinkling eyes of children receiving toys, new shoes and clothes, especially for the first time. Give yourself the best Christmas gift by sharing your time and talents to provide SP kids and staff a blessed Christmas experience. Why not sing, “I’ll be home at SP for Christmas… you can count on me!”
Summer of Service - SOS
Interested in spending next summer in a meaningful way?
Why not spend it the Friends of SP way!
If you’re 18-35 years old, you are welcome to join with other FSP volunteers to become a part of SP during a four week SOS. Serve the kids via tutorial, sports clinics, art lessons, caregiving, reliving home unit parents, cooking, playing and simply building relationships. Make your summer count… even more, make your life count by serving orphans!
Internships
FSP/SP provides two options for internships – semester and general.
Semester internships provide foreign students an opportunity to complete the practicum component of course studies or study abroad requirements. Semester internships are to be coordinated with accredited educational institutions. A maximum of eight (8) students is allowed per semester.
General internships are coordinated in partnership with cooperating agencies, such as Missions 2 Go or ACTS Outreach. Gap students or recent college graduates are preferred for this internship category. Upon completion of a rigorous screening and application process, FSP nominates interns for acceptance by the SP administration. A maximum of two (2) general interns are allowed at any given time.
If you have a passionate heart for children and improving your knowledge about social work, child development, or community services, FSP internships are an excellent choice. Interns serve at SP in specific ways.
- Assisting or relieving full-time staff
- Conducting daily tutorials- school subjects and English
- Help coordinate activities with volunteer teams
- Assist in monitoring kids’ developmental milestones
- Accompany kids, with staff, for medical check-ups and adoption processes
- Help facilitate community services, i.e. Kidz Klub
Adoption Ambassadors
Jump to a new level in adoption advocacy. Join other advocates by traveling to the Philippines for a once a year Adoption Ambassadors trip.
For one week, you will enjoy meeting and becoming familiar with select orphans that need extra advocacy in finding a forever family. The program, which is typically conducted in a camp resort or similar facility, provides a lot of interaction, games, fun and sporting activities, which are integral to this week of involvement and assessment.
This trip is serious business. All ambassadors are required to complete an extensive application, training and preparation. The goal is to be better equipped to represent a child in finding a permanent placement. Perhaps you might even want to adopt the child to which you are assigned!
For more information about Adoption Ambassadors, please email: info@samaritansplace.com
Upcoming 2018 Trips
- March 23-30, 2018 – Guardians with a Mission (Annual Summer VBS)
- May 15-28, 2018 – Lee University HESSE (Sportsfest/Sports Clinics)
- May 31 – June 10, 2018 – Mother/Daughter Team
- June 15-25, 2018 – Judson Baptist Team
- August 2018 – Tokyo Lighthouse Japan (Table Tennis Team)
- November 2018 – Christmas Celebration Team
