Volunteer with Abide in Love

Our Volunteer Training page gathers the core materials every Abide in Love volunteer needs to serve with compassion, clarity, and care. Here you’ll find required trainings, presentations, and surveys that introduce our mission, outline expectations, and offer guidance on trauma-informed, culturally sensitive accompaniment.

All surveys and training confirmations are securely recorded with Abide in Love and, when necessary, shared with local affiliates to ensure consistent preparation, accountability, and support across our network. This shared process helps us honor the dignity of those we serve while equipping volunteers and affiliates to work together with trust and transparency.

Share a little about yourself and how you’d like to serve—this brief survey helps Abide in Love connect you with meaningful volunteer opportunities supporting immigrants with compassion and care.
- Abide in Love Official Volunteer Interest Survey
This training offers a clear, welcoming introduction to Abide in Love’s mission, values, and volunteer practices, equipping you to serve immigrants with compassion, dignity, and nonviolence.
- General Volunteer Training
This training helps volunteers understand trauma, boundaries, and cultural sensitivity, offering guidance for showing up with care, respect, and emotional awareness in our work with immigrants.
- Sensitivity & Trauma Training
This document outlines Abide in Love’s volunteer standards and expectations, grounding our shared work in accountability, respect, and a commitment to compassionate, nonviolent service.
- Volunteer Standards & Expectations
This brief checklist helps confirm that all required volunteer trainings have been completed, ensuring you are prepared to serve with care, consistency, and confidence.
- in Love Volunteer Checklist Survey

Join us this Tuesday [12/16] for our community meeting & potluck at 1st United Methodist Church of Rolla, Missouri at 5:30pm. All are welcome! 🕊 #RapidResponseSTL will join us & discuss volunteer opportunities. We hope to see you there. 🕊

21 ICE HOLDS came into Phelps County Jail last night. Abide In Love is monitoring this situation and will continue to support these immigrants through our penpal program. If you have any questions or would like learn how to help - please email us. 💌 info@abideinlove.org #immigration #Detainee #phelpscounty #phelpscountyjail

Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. 🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙🕊💙 Join us tonight. Message us for more details.

We want to send a special thank you to our volunteer penpal Amanda. She has worked hard to do everything she could for this family while the father was detained. This message is from her penpal's mother. This immigrant husband and father of two young girls had a valid visa through December 2025, but was being held at Phelps County Jail. When he first spoke to Amanda - he told her he wanted to self deport. Even self deportation takes time. He was held for over 90 days through physical and mental health issues, begging to go back to his county - and to take his family with him. When undocumented immigrants have children who are US citizens, they cannot be with their families in their country until they have a passport - which is expensive, especially when you can no longer work. Passports can be difficult to obtain. Abide in Love helps in this process with assistance from Rapid Response whenever we can. ************ We would like to report that Amanda’s penpal is almost back in his home country with his mother and we are hopeful his wife and daughters will be arriving soon. We are anxiously awaiting the photo of the family finally together again. Amanda has given a mother, a wife, and two little girls information, hope, and prayers for over 90 days through one of the hardest things they’ll go through. She was their lifeline. We are proud to have Amanda in Abide in Love. #immigration #immigrationrights #abideinlove #WorkVisa #family #phelpscountyjail

We finally got to meet our @abideinlovesg pals Sarah and Susie last night & our friend Emily at @stlrapidresponse Thank you all for your amazing work and friendship. 💞

Tonight at @leachtheatre during the @voters_for_informed_action Town Hall, Emily Stuart of the @stlrapidresponse Coalition will describe the legal challenges and climate of fear facing immigrants. We will also have a table and would love to answer any questions you may have about the organization. We hope to see you there. 📍Leach Theatre ⏰6:30PM - 8:30PM

Please see link in bio for the @stlpublicradio article.

Today we were able to put funds into every detainee's commissary account. These funds can purchase underwear, hygiene items, more phone time, or food. We thank our Beloved Community for making this a possibility. Your donations mean more than you could know. We appreciate you. 💙🕊 #donatetoday

Are ICE detainees being held in your town? Find out! [link in bio] Missouri Detention Facilities as of 8/1/25: Greene County Jail - Springfield, MO Phelps County Jail - Rolla, MO Ste. Genevieve County Detention Center - Ste. Genevieve, MO [thank you to our affiliates, @abideinlovesg for stepping up!] #affiliates #stegenevieve #rolla #missouri #detentionfacility

~ Message from an ICE detainee in Phelps County to Abide In Love. Help us continue to give emotional support to detainees in Phelps County Jail. #rollamo #phelpscountymo #immigration #immigrationrights #donatetoday

Volunteer with Abide in Love

1. START HERE → Volunteer Interest Survey

2. General Volunteer Training

3. Sensitivity & Trauma Training

4. Volunteer Standards & Expectations

5. END HERE → Volunteer Checklist Survey