Volunteers serve lunches to 14 Coal Pit preschool children every Friday at the Coal Pit Learning Center.
If possible, the Coal Pit Ministry would really love to bring lunches more than one day a week, as this takes one thing off of the teachers' shoulders at the school, since they prepare the lunches themselves when they do not have help! You can drop off a lunch even without staying to serve. We are also looking for volunteer mystery readers and craft helpers who can spend time reading to the students or helping with arts and crafts projects (schedule is flexible). Substitute teachers and/or tutors are also needed. (Background check is required for teaching.) Please consider helping us make these goals possible!
Volunteer Opportunities
Ministry Volunteers We are in need of more volunteers to join our dedicated team.
Interested?
If you are interested in serving as a volunteer, please contact Rosemary McCracken!
Coal Pit Learning Center
The Coal Pit Learning Center (Francistown Road | Henrico County) is a local non-profit preschool that offers an enriching, full-day preschool program to students from low-income families.
Its curriculum includes exposure to subjects such as art, music, science, and constructive play. Its teachers encourage visual, motor, and pre-reading skills development according to the needs of the individual students. Through intellectually challenging and exciting material, Coal Pit devotes itself to equipping students with academic and social skills that will promote success in later schooling and life, aiming to help families escape the cycle of poverty. Since its founding in 1976, the Center has helped over 1,000 students graduate from preschool.