Assistant Cook

Location:

Boone, NC, United States
Job
Date Posted:
Jan 5, 2026

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Samaritan's Purse is looking for a dedicated and passionate individual to join our team as an Assistant Cook. In this role, you will work alongside the Lead Cook to prepare delicious meals for our staff, volunteers, and visitors. Your responsibilities will include assisting with menu planning, ordering and purchasing ingredients, preparing breakfast and dinner, providing items for lunch, and maintaining a clean kitchen.

If you are a team player who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and wants to use your talents to share the gospel, this position is for you!

A day in the life of an Assistant Cook:

At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff, and volunteers who serve around the globe.

In the role of Assistant Cook
, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Assist the Lead Cook in preparing the menu, orders, and purchases to serve staff and volunteers
• Help the Lead Cook in preparing breakfast and dinner each day at set times as requested, and provide items for the volunteers to prepare a bag lunch each morning before going out to work
• Assist with maintaining the kitchen and equipment in a clean manner
• Greet all staff and visitors, and utilize volunteers to assist as needed in the kitchen
• Provide receipts and weekly time sheets to the Office Manager for reporting
• High school diploma or equivalent and at least one (1) year experience in food preparation; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• General knowledge of safe food handling procedures

Job Location: Boone, North Carolina (U.S. Rebuild Field Office)

Type:Full-time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days

Samaritan's Purse Mission Statement:

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samaritan's Purse Statement of Faith:

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
  1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:
  
  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  
  Matthew 28:19;
  John 10:30;
  Ephesians 4:4-6.
• We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
  
  Matthew 1:23;
  John 1:1-4 and 1:29;
  Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24;
  Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21;
  Philippians 2:5-11;
  Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.
• We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit.
  
  Luke 24:46-47;
  John 14:6;
  Acts 4:12;
  Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11;
  Ephesians 1:7 and 2:89;
  Titus 3:4-7.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life.
  
  John 3:5-8;
  Acts 1:8 and 4:31;
  Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14;
  Galatians 5:16, 17, 18;
  Ephesians 6:12;
  Colossians 2:6-10.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment.
  1 Corinthians 15:51-57;
  Revelation 20:11-15.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church.
  1 Corinthians 12:12, 27;
  Ephesians 1:22-23.
• We believe that the ministry of evangelism and discipleship a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ.
  
  Matthew 28:18-20;
  Acts 1:8;
  Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15.
• We believe Gods plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society.
  
  For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.
  
  Genesis 2:24;
  Matthew 19:5-6;
  Mark 10:6-9;
  Romans 1:26-27; 1…