Domestic & international humanitarian service
Ready to serve,
at home and far from it.
A faith based humanitarian and community emergency services organization — ministers, first responders, and global peace and security ambassadors who show up when a neighborhood needs hands, a calm voice, and someone who stays.
Faith based
Service rooted in conviction, offered without condition.
Domestic & international
Teams at home, and alongside communities abroad.
Emergency services
Trained people who answer when a neighbor calls.
Two ways in.
Whether you are looking for a place to serve or need someone to come alongside you, there is a door here.
I want to volunteer
No prior experience is required for every role. We need drivers, cooks, chaplains, radio operators, instructors, note-takers, and people who are simply steady in a hard hour. Tell us what you can give and we will find a place for it.
I need help or want to request services
If your household, church, or community group needs a hand — supplies, a visit, support at an event — tell us what is happening. This form is not monitored around the clock: for a life threatening emergency, call 911 first.
Who we are
A guard in the oldest sense of the word: people who keep watch over their neighbors.
The Federal State Guard & Community Emergency Services is a faith based humanitarian organization. Our people are ministers, first responders, and global peace and security ambassadors, and the work is the same here as it is abroad — feed someone, shelter someone, sit with someone, and help a community be ready before the worst day comes.
We are independent — non governmental and non political — and we claim no official authority. What we claim is a calling: to be useful, to be trained, and to be present. When a family calls us, a minister answers. When a neighborhood needs a team, trained volunteers arrive.
The work
Five things we are asked to do.
Every role below is filled by a volunteer. That is the whole model — ordinary people, trained well, sent out together.
Community emergency response
When a storm, a fire, or a hard week lands on a neighborhood, trained volunteers arrive to help with supplies, cleanup, wellness checks, and the plain work of getting people back on their feet.
Chaplaincy and ministry
Ordained ministers and trained chaplains sit with families in the worst hours of their lives — at a bedside, on a porch, in a shelter — and stay long enough to matter.
Preparedness training
Readiness is a skill, not a feeling. We teach households to build kits and plans, and we teach volunteers to keep their heads when a scene is loud and unclear.
Domestic and international relief
Our teams serve here at home and alongside communities abroad — food, water, shelter support, and the logistics that turn goodwill into something that actually arrives.
Peace and security ambassadorship
Some of our people are called to stand between a crowd and a crisis. They train for de-escalation, restraint, and protection of the vulnerable, and they answer to a higher standard than the moment.
Training
Practical, not ceremonial.
Our volunteers prepare for the situations they actually meet: a household that needs supplies, a family in shock, a crowd that is getting restless. Training areas include first response and CPR practice, readiness planning, chaplaincy and the ministry of presence, administrative support, international service, and tactical civil unrest training for those called to peace and security work.
Materials, briefings, and guidance live in one place on this site, written plainly so a volunteer can read them on a phone in a parking lot.
Training & resourcesFrom the field manual
Readiness you can start tonight.
Building a readiness kit your household will actually use
A kit does not have to be bought all at once. In one afternoon, from things already in your house, you can gather a simple, honest set of supplies sized for the people and pets who actually live there — and put it where everyone can find it.
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The first seventy-two hours: a plan your household can follow
Write down where to meet, who to call, and what each person carries — so that in a hard moment your household is following a plan instead of making one.
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The first hour after a storm, block by block
Before help can reach your street, the people nearest you are the help. A simple, careful sweep of your block — checking, not rescuing — is one of the most useful things neighbors can do together.
Read 03 →Join us
There is a place for what you already know how to do.
Some of our volunteers are medics and retired officers. Many more are teachers, drivers, cooks, and grandparents. Every one of them was nervous the first time.
Former military and law enforcement are welcome to serve as volunteers. The habits you already carry — showing up on time, keeping a clear head in a loud room, looking after the person beside you — are exactly what this work asks for.
Call or text Chief Stone's office. For a life threatening emergency, call 911 first.