Contact: Andrew Sears, TechMission, 617-359-0394

MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 16, /Christian Newswire/ -- TechMission's ChristianVolunteering.org website provides a comprehensive directory of thousands of volunteer opportunities in ministries for people who would like to volunteer during the holidays. The site has over 2,000 volunteer and short-term missions opportunities from over 1,000 organizations. ChristianVolunteering.org's partners include the Salvation Army, the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, World Vision, Christian Community Development Association, Here's Life Inner City (Campus Crusade), Urban Youth Worker's Institute and YouthPartnersNet (formerly Compassion USA).

Some sample holiday volunteer opportunities from the site include:
• Helping serve Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless
• Helping wrap Christmas gifts for homeless children
• Spending Thanksgiving or Christmas with low-income elders without families
• Sorting and bagging food to give to low-income families
• Volunteering at a Christmas party for homeless children

People interested in volunteering can simply visit www.christianvolunteering.org and search for volunteer opportunities in their region. After finding, an opportunity, users simply click a button to be matched to the organization to volunteer.

Online volunteer matching websites like ChristianVolunteering.org are changing the way people find volunteer opportunities, to enable them to find thousands of opportunities in a few seconds on the Web. In addition to providing opportunities for people to volunteer in person, ChristianVolunteering.org also provides virtual volunteer opportunities where people can volunteer from home by providing services at a distance. Individuals in the USA can find opportunities to volunteer to help develop a website for a missionary organization in China or provide grant writing for a Christian school in Korea. An individual anywhere in the world can find opportunities to serve homeless shelters and ministries in the United States by providing graphics design, legal aid, project planning, grant writing, marketing support, prayer and administrative support.

ChristianVolunteering.org represents the first major website to match volunteers with Christian volunteer service opportunities. According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, the value of the donated time of faith-based volunteers in 2005 was $51.8 billion dollars--which is the target market for this website.

TechMission is a Christian nonprofit social service organization with over 500 member ministries serving over 50,000 people in at-risk communities and maintains www.urbanministry.org, www.safefamilies.org, www.techmission.org and www.christianfreeware.org.