Volunteer ministers also gather to help improve their communities through special projects such as cleaning up parks, revitalizing neighborhoods and erasing graffiti from public buildings. They may scour parks and beaches for used syringes as they do in Spain and Italy, to help alleviate the threat of AIDS infection to people at play. Or they may distribute food and clothing to the poor, as they do in France, Germany and all over Europe.

Volunteer ministers often join with their churches to support other established community benefit programs such as the Red Cross, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Salvation Army and local community groups by participating in drug-free blood drives, collecting holiday toys for needy children, and donating food and clothing for underprivileged families.