Upcoming Opportunities

  • Feed the Need|March 2 & 3| Sign up below.
  • Hesed House | March 13 & 13|Donate food items here and volunteer to serve here!
  • Loaves & Fishes|March 20| Sign up below.
  • Mission Trip interest form
  • Join our local Mission Leadership Team, details are below.
  • DuPage Care Center – Serve with our team at DuPage Care Center on the third Sunday of each month between 9:30 – 11:45 AM. Want to get connected? Contact Karen Fegley.

Feed My Starving Children Packing Event|March 2 & 3

Our world faces the greatest hunger crisis of our lifetime! Join us to pack food, give hope, and save lives as we partner with FMSC and our community to provide 800,000 meals during Feed The Need 2024! As a premier sponsor of this community event, Good Shepherd’s goal is to provide 600 volunteers over five packing sessions. Invite your family, friends, and small groups to help us reach this goal! It’s fun with purpose.

Good Shepherd has reserved spots at all five packing sessions, click on the packing session you wish to serve for a direct link to the sign-up.

Saturday|March 2| 9:00 – 11:00 AM

Saturday|March 2| 12:00 – 2:00 PM

Saturday|March 2 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Saturday| March 2| 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Sunday| March 3| 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Sunday| March 3| 1:30 – 3:30 PM

 Other serving opportunities like hospitality needs and non-packing roles are also available! Click below for sign up.

Support Staff Positions – Check-In, Greeter, and Ambassador 

Hospitality Room Food Needs

If you prefer, see our team after services on Sunday to sign up in person.  


Hesed House | March 13 & 14

Hesed House is the second-largest homeless shelter in Illinois and a long-time mission partner of Good Shepherd. Helping the most vulnerable among us remains one of our highest priorities.

Our team serves breakfast and dinner to the guests at Hesed House six times a year. Our next serving opportunity is in March. Donate food items here and volunteer to serve here!


Lent Serving|Loaves & Fishes |March 20 

On the final Wednesday of our Lent series “The Ordinary Road” we will put serving into practice. Good Shepherd has arranged with one of our valued mission partners, Loaves & Fishes, this unique opportunity to be God’s love in action! Together onsite at the L&F Aurora Hub, our team will help prepare produce, sort grocery items, and other tasks needed to get food bags ready for pick-up. Loaves & Fishes currently serves 8,000 people each week from the surrounding communities. We have two serving times to choose from 1st Shift: 5:50 pm-7 pm, and 2nd Shift: 6:50 pm – 8 pm.  Each session can accommodate 20 people and will be 70 minutes long.  Children aged 10 and above are welcome and must be accompanied by an adult.  Join our team as we come together for fun, purpose, and impact!   

Meet at Loaves and Fishes Community Services, Aurora Hub,
580 Exchange Court, #1200, Aurora, IL 60504


REGISTER HERE


DuPage Care Center

3rd Sunday of the Month from 9:30 – 11:45 AM

Do you know that Good Shepherd provides an off-site worship service once a month for residents living at DuPage Care Center? It’s an important way that we serve our community. Every third Sunday we provide a team to worship with residents physically unable to go to church. Pianists, musicians, vocalists, and anyone with a smile who can push a wheelchair are invited to join our team in this impactful service!  Just a few hours, once a month, helps to bring worship and joy to grateful residents!  

Email our leader for more details here.


Mission Trip Interest

Join us on an incredible journey of faith and service! God’s transformative work happens through His people, and a mission trip is a powerful way to be part of that work. Whether you’re an experienced traveler or just beginning to consider short-term missions, we invite you to complete our interest form today. By doing so, you’ll help us discern the when, where, and how of our mission trips for the remainder of 2023-24.

As we hear stories of the tremendous impact that mission trips have on both those serving and being served, we’re excited to see what God has in store for us. By taking this step of faith, you’ll have the opportunity to deepen your relationship with God, connect with fellow believers, and make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. So why wait? Complete the interest form today and let’s discover where God is calling us to serve together.


Local Mission Leadership Team

Do you have a heart for local missions? We are growing our leadership team with individuals who can help us plan and execute local serving events like Hesed House. This will be a joint effort, amongst passionate people, doing kingdom work right in our own backyard. Together, joyfully, we can make a difference.

Contact Jeannine Allen to learn more.


Loaves and Fishes Community Services

Volunteers Needed

Due to difficult economic circumstances, Loaves and Fishes Community Services is currently serving 5,500 families or more each week and could use our help! They have an immediate need for volunteers on M-TH from 1-3 pm to do produce sorting for distribution. This is at their Distribution Hub, 580 Exchange Court, Aurora, IL. The only requirement is that you wear close-toed shoes and can stand for 2 hours while sorting.

Email Shelly Schmitz at sschmitz@loaves-fishes.org with additional questions or to volunteer.


Feed My Starving Children

Aurora Packing Site

Each day FMSC distributes meals in schools, orphanages, clinics, and feeding programs around the world to deliver hope and break the cycle of poverty. Kids and adults of all ages hand-pack nutritious MannaPack® meals specifically designed to assist in reversing and preventing undernutrition. FMSC is a long-time mission partner of Good Shepherd. We are a premier supporter of Feed the Need every February, and sponsor several group packing sessions throughout the year. Outside of that, you can sign up directly to serve at the Aurora site. It is a fun, impactful way to help with the world hunger crisis.

Sign up and full details here.


Thrivent Action Teams

If you are a Thrivent Member, you are eligible for a $250 gift card to support community-involved service projects. Please consider partnering with Good Shepherd to put this money into action with our current community outreach efforts! Together we can make an impact! We will walk you through the easy process step by step.

Email us to learn more.


Questions? Want to help? Get in touch with our Missions team through the button below.

Read more about the inspirational impact of our outreach here.

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