PazNaz Missions
About PazNaz Missions
The purpose of PazNaz Missions is to mobilize the church to pray, give, educate, engage youth, and serve the marginalized. We seek to proclaim the gospel in word and deed locally and globally.
PazNaz Missions consists of missional work locally through Compassionate Ministries and globally through Nazarene Missions International (NMI). We are devoted to loving, coming alongside, and building a relationship with the poor and marginalized.
This is a lay led ministry of PazNaz. If you’d like more information about any of the below programs or would like to volunteer, please see below and/or contact Jackie Kenoyer at jnanderson5@gmail.com.
As we enter the Fall, many of our volunteers have had changes in work schedules or have gone back to school. We especially need volunteers to serve with the Helping Hands Distribution Team. If you are willing, able, healthy, and want to serve, please sign up using the links below.
Helping Hands
Helping Hands is a community food bank and clothing assistance program that provides basic necessities and spiritual support to individuals and households in the San Gabriel Valley area. The food bank and clothing assistance program is located in the western section of the lower Sanctuary, next to Reed Hall.
Helping Hands is now open weekly on Wednesdays from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon and, during the COVID-19 crisis, we are waiving the requirement of people coming every other week.
How Can I Serve?
You are invited to help with this ministry. You can sign up to serve with either volunteer team using the links below, some restrictions may apply.
- Distribution Team - Fill grocery bags, direct traffic, check in families, and load groceries into cars of community members as they drive by to pick up food.
- When: Wednesdays from 8:00 am–12:00 pm
- Location: PazNaz Helping Hands area
- Comments: Please meet in the Helping Hands area at start time.
- Sign Up: Click Here
- Warehouse Team – The Warehouse Team unloads food boxes from the truck, transports them to the warehouse, and then stores food in an organized manner. Volunteers must be able to lift at least 50lbs.
- When: Tuesdays from 8:30–11:30 am
- Location: PazNaz Helping Hands area
- Comments: Please meet in the Helping Hands area at start time.
- Sign Up: Click Here
Church in the Park
Church in the Park provides a hot breakfast and spiritual enrichment each week to people from Pasadena’s homeless community at Central Park, near Old Town Pasadena. Each Sunday, breakfast is served at 8:45 am and a short worship service follows in the park.
How Can I Serve?
You are invited to help with this ministry. You can sign up to serve with either volunteer team using the link below.
- Park Team - The Park team helps serve food, clean up, set up and break down. They also hang out, talk, and pray with congregants.
- When: Sundays from 8:20–9:45 am
- Location: Central Park, Pasadena
- Comments: We have a high need for volunteers on this team. Please meet at Central Park (southwest area) and wait for the CITP Trailer to arrive.
- Sign up: Click Here
- Cooking Team - The Cooking team makes burritos, grits, and prepares other food at PazNaz before going to the park. This team is broken down into two smaller teams which either serve on all Sundays of the odd months (Team A) or all Sundays of the even months (Team B). Please feel free to sign up for a schedule that works for you.
- When: Sundays from 6:30–8:15 am
- Location: PazNaz Kitchen
- Comments: Please meet in the kitchen at PazNaz at start time.
- Sign up: Click Here