Serve Day 2025
Serve Day is coming up on Saturday, August 2nd, 2025! Throughout the year, our church is serving locally in our community, but once a year we strive to mobilize our entire church in ministry.
Serve Day is an opportunity for you to show the love of Christ in tangible ways throughout our city and through our partnership with various organizations already doing great work! We can’t wait to serve with you!
Saturday Morning projects will meet at Epic Church at 9am on Saturday, August 2nd for a time of worship & prayer as we rally together before heading out to our projects (which will be mostly from 10am – 12pm). We’ll have coffee, donuts and supplies for you to grab on your way to your project – and some will be carpooling from here! Evening projects will receive separate instructions.
Donations for Serve Day
We are collecting non-perishable food items for our partnership with the Buffalo Dream Center this Serve Day. BDC is accepting anything, here’s some thoughts on what to bring: canned goods, boxed grains (oatmeal, pasta & rices), cereal, granola or protein bars, peanut/nut butters, jams/preserves, canned meat/tuna, etc.
You can bring donations to the 9:30am or 11am Service on Sunday, July 27th. You can also drop those off at the office Mon – Thurs 8:30am – 4:30pm.
We also have a few items on our Amazon wishlist that will support our Friends Feeding Friends project feeding the homeless, as well as some supplies we’re prepping for different projects.
Friday Morning Delivery of BDC Donations
9:00-11:00am (Friday, August 1) • Deliver from Epic to Masten Ave., Buffalo
Project Details: This team will load up all of our donations for the Buffalo Dream Center on Friday morning at Epic Church. Then they will drive down to BDC to deliver donations. If you serve at this project you are also utilizing your car to load up.
Friday Night Project Prep
6:30 – 8pm (Friday, August 1) • Epic Church
Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be prepping for the Saturday morning rally. We’ll set the lobby up, prep project packs for leaders and prep the donut holes & water for the morning.
Buffalo City Mission
9am – 12pm • Depew • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be serving the City Mission by organizing and sorting through
About the Organization: With the support of our community, we create lasting change for the thousands of men, women and children in Western New York experiencing poverty, hunger and homelessness.
Friends Feeding Friends (Prep)
9:00am – 11:30am • Epic Church • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be making pb&j sandwiches, packing lunch packs, packing toiletry packs and also writing encouraging messages for the evening project with Friends Feeding Friends.
About the Organization: Friends Feeding Friends offers hot meals, beverages, clothing, an encouraging word, and prayer to friends in need.
Friends Feeding Friends (Serve Night)
6:00pm – 8:00/8:30pm • Downtown
Project Details: This team will be serving meals & toiletry packs to friends in need downtown. We will meet at Epic Church to load supplies and carpool down to the project.
About the Organization: Friends Feeding Friends offers hot meals, beverages, clothing, an encouraging word, and prayer to friends in need.
Friends of Night People (Serve Night)
4:30pm-7:30pm • Downtown
Project Details: This team will be prepping a meal to serve to those in need in our city.
About the Organization: Friends of Night People is a charitable organization that helps the poor, homeless and destitute in Buffalo, New York.
The Goodness Project
9am – 12pm • Buffalo • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be organizing and sorting through product at the distribution center.
About the Organization: The Goodness Project is an international non-profit relief organization with distribution centers in four cities across America and Canada. We deliver food, medicine, clothing, toys, school supplies, mattresses, safety equipment, furniture, and other necessary resources to individuals, children, families, and non-profits who lack these essentials resources.
Hearts & Hands
9am – 12pm • Alden • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be doing yardwork/landscaping & cleanup
About the Organization: Hearts and Hands connects caring volunteers with older adults by providing transportation, in-home supports, and caregiver respite to uphold their dignity, improve their quality of life, and enhance their ability to live in their home of choice and to assist their primary caregivers.
Hearts & Hands
9am – 12pm • Amherst #1 • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be doing yardwork/landscaping & cleanup
About the Organization: Hearts and Hands connects caring volunteers with older adults by providing transportation, in-home supports, and caregiver respite to uphold their dignity, improve their quality of life, and enhance their ability to live in their home of choice and to assist their primary caregivers.
Hearts & Hands
9am – 12pm • Amherst #2 • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be doing yardwork/landscaping & cleanup
About the Organization: Hearts and Hands connects caring volunteers with older adults by providing transportation, in-home supports, and caregiver respite to uphold their dignity, improve their quality of life, and enhance their ability to live in their home of choice and to assist their primary caregivers.
Hearts & Hands
9am – 12pm • Clarence • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be doing yardwork/landscaping & cleanup
About the Organization: Hearts and Hands connects caring volunteers with older adults by providing transportation, in-home supports, and caregiver respite to uphold their dignity, improve their quality of life, and enhance their ability to live in their home of choice and to assist their primary caregivers.
Hearts & Hands
9am – 12pm • South Buffalo • Family Friendly
Project Details: This team will be doing yardwork/landscaping & cleanup
About the Organization: Hearts and Hands connects caring volunteers with older adults by providing transportation, in-home supports, and caregiver respite to uphold their dignity, improve their quality of life, and enhance their ability to live in their home of choice and to assist their primary caregivers.
Media Team
(Photo & Video)
8:30 – 12:30pm (other time options) • Various Locations
Project Details: This team will capture our Serve Day experience! Photographers & Videographers will serve throughout the weekend to help get candid shots of our teams serving and of the work. This will be used for a recap video & social posts the following week.
Project Mona’s House (Care Pack Assembly)
9am – 12pm • Buffalo
Project Details: This team will be putting together care packs for the women PMH serves.
About the Organization: Project Mona’s House exists to shed light on the terrible crime of Human Trafficking, restore those who have been victimized, and prevent it from ever happening again through education, legislation, and amplifying our voice until freedom rings for all people… FOREVER!
Project Mona’s House (Home Project)
9am – 12pm • Buffalo
Project Details: This team will be doing yardwork on a home we helped to setup a couple years back!
About the Organization: Project Mona’s House exists to shed light on the terrible crime of Human Trafficking, restore those who have been victimized, and prevent it from ever happening again through education, legislation, and amplifying our voice until freedom rings for all people… FOREVER!