The Salvation Army’s Annual Community Thanksgiving Meal will be hosted on November 28, 2024. This year we will serve 1400 meals throughout our community. To volunteer at The Salvation Army at 908 Yuma Street, Colorado Springs. Adult volunteers should individually select an opportunity. Let us know if children will accompany you for our in-house count.

The Shifts are as follows:

08:30 am – 12:00pm (Front Desk Aide)

You will answer the phone, giving callers information about the holiday meal.

1 volunteer

08:00 am– 1:00 pm (Volunteer Registration) (2 shifts 8:00-10:30 /10:30-1:00)

Assist with Volunteer Registration and directing volunteers to their assigned area.

2-3 volunteers

10:00 am – 1:00 pm (Volunteer Photographer)

Do you have an eye for taking photos? If you have a camera, we will provide you with a memory card. You will be photographing guests and volunteers during the meal.

1-2 volunteers

10:00 am – 1:00pm (Door Greeters)

This position will greet guests and direct them into the Gymnasium through one of three entrances.

3 volunteers

08:00 am -1:00pm (Kitchen Lead)

This opportunity will aid the sous chef inin thekitchen operations, assisting with directing traffic and with refilling the plating area. Knowledge of kitchen management is helpful but not required.

1 volunteer

08:00 am -10:30 am (Kitchen Assistant)

Unload food that will be delivered from Ft. Carson and assist the sous chef as needed.

4 volunteers

10:00 am - 2:00 pm (Dishwasher) (2 shifts 10:00-12:00 /12:00-2:00)

Assist the kitchen at the dishwashing station.

2-3 volunteers per shifts

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Pie Cutting)

Prepare pies for dessert servers to distribute to our guests.

3 volunteers

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Plating Meals)

Plating meals that will be delivered to the guests by the meals servers.

4 volunteers

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Meal Servers)

You will deliver plated meals to guests seated at the tables, returning to the serving line to pick up more plates until all are served.

7 Volunteers

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Dessert Serving)

You will serveadessert to the guests in the dining area.

3 volunteers

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Bussing Tables)

Bus the tables as guests leave, preparing for new guests to be served.

4 volunteers

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Drink Station)

Manage the beverage station refilling the coffee, water and juice as required.

4 volunteers

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Trash)

Having hundreds of guests dining with us also means a lot of trash. This job involves regularly taking out the trash in the dining area and placingnew trash bags in the receptacles.

4 volunteers

(Delivery Service Area)

08:00-1:00pm am (Delivery Lead Volunteer)

This opportunity will aid the sous chef inkitchen operations, assisting with directing traffic and with refilling the plating area. Knowledge of kitchen management is helpful but not required.

1 volunteer

08:30 am – 11:30am (Meal Delivery Ticket Distribution)

Involves organizing meal delivery routes for delivery drivers so that each delivery driver stays in a generalized area. Thorough knowledge of the city preferred.

2 Volunteer

10:30 am – 1:00pm (Meal Delivery Assembly)

You will assemble to-go meals for delivery

3 volunteers

10:30 am – 1:00pm (Meal Delivery Organizers)

You will assemble boxes of to-go meals and delivery tickets for the drivers.

3 volunteers

10:30 am – 1:00pm (Meal Delivery Driver)

Drivers will deliver meals to homebound individuals. Deliveries will be organized by area.

15 Volunteers

10:30 am – 11:30pm (Meal Delivery Runner (Silvercrest)

The Silvercrest Residence is The Salvation Army’s senior living apartment complex next door to The Salvation Army on Yuma. We will place delivery meals in a shopping cart for delivery.

8-10 volunteers

12:30 pm - 03:00 pm (Clean-up Team)

These are the people who make this all possible. We need help putting away tables and chairs and cleaning the kitchen, serving and dining areas.

10 volunteers

“Many hands make light work”. Please know that each opportunity serves a greater purpose. We thank you for your willingness to serve others during the holiday season. “Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.” Proverbs 19:17

Thank you for Doing the Most Good!

Pick a Shift!