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Through the apportionment,
Southeast District churches are stepping up to the plate
and giving through the offering plate to help with
missions and outreach globally and through the
conference.
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In addition to this first mile apportionment giving,
many churches are connecting to the communities in which
they find themselves through local missions and outreach
opportunities.
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Below are some of the "direct services" and hands on
ministries in the local churches. Contact the church or
see their website for opportunity to participate in
local ministries.
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Alexander City First UMC:
Jacob's Ladder Creative Learning
Center is a ministry aimed toward 3 and 4 year old
children in the community. We offer a full year program
from 6:45 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
More…
On June 4, 2009 Alexander City First
will begin Feast of Sharing. This is a new ministry of
the FUMC. The goal of Feast of Sharing is to provide a
comforting, fulfilling meal at no charge in a warm and
welcoming environment to individuals and families in
economic and spiritual need. Meals will be served each
Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
More…
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Bethany UMC:
Bethany UMC in collaboration with
other churches has a food pantry ministry.
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Dadeville First UMC:
Reach out
to local families in need through their Book Bag
program.
More
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Flint Hill UMC:
Flint
Hill
as a
"Pastor’s Special Fund" to help persons in
community with groceries, utility bills, gasoline, etc.
The church also supports the Tallapoosa Christian Crisis
Center which helps families in need.
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Langdale UMC:
Langdale UMC has a Soup Kitchen, a
Clothes Closet, and provides assistance to the
Interfaith Food Pantry, Operation Bread Basket and twice
yearly Operation Help-A-Child. The church partners with
the Christian Service Center, and supports the Fuller
Center Project.
There are many volunteer
services provided by the church members through the
shepherding ministry
including Prayer Shawl
Ministry, Nursing Home Ministry, partners in
education with Lafayette Lanier Elementary School,
Operation Help a Child; Click
here
for detail
on each of these ministries and how to help.
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Lowell UMC :
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Lowell has been feeding 100 persons
twice a month. The church hand delivers food to shut-ins
or those without transportation.
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St. Paul/Pine Grove Charge:
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St. Paul and Pine Grove
United Methodist Churches serve out their ministry to
the local community through the Five Points Community
Development Corporation (Five Points CDC).
The Five Points CDC
provides after school and summer tutoring to community
children for the purpose of improving classroom
improvement and increase high school graduation rate.
Pantry Hour is a program to bring
senior citizens together for meal, fun, fellowship and
information on issues relevant to their lives. First
Friday of each month, about 35 seniors come together for
this event.
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Red Ridge UMC:
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Red Ridge has a Brown Bag Program in
collaboration with the East Alabama Food Bank in Auburn.
The program provides food to the elderly on low income.
You are welcome to participate in
the actual unloading and delivery of the food....just
show up on the third Friday of any month at 8:30 PM.
Children
affected by child abuse, abandonment or neglect are
ministered to through the
Angel Doll Ministry.
Volunteers at the church make the dolls to let hurting
children know that someone cares. Click
here
for information
on this and other programs.
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Roanoke First UMC :
Roanoke First has been purchasing and distributing food
from the United Way Food Bank in Birmingham and
distributing in the Randolph County area. Now the church
is in the process of starting
the Lighthouse Soup Kitchen and
Food Pantry to feed on
Tuesdays and Thursdays of campus. They will begin
probably in June. Other United Methodist Churches in the
area are expected to partner with them.
Communion offering goes into
"Special Fund"
to
help persons in church community with groceries, utility
bills, gasoline, clothing, etc. Click
here for more
information.
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St. Thomas UMC :
St. Thomas looks outside itself by
supporting the Care House in Sylacauga with
nonperishable food items and volunteers. Each year the
church has volunteer in the Central Alabama Sickle Cell
Foundation walk to assist persons needing travel and
medical assistance associated with Sickle Cell disease.
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Sylacauga First UMC :
Sylacauga First reaches out to the community through a
variety of programs.
Sylacauga First
UMC began working with the Sylacauga Area Habitat for
Humanity in 1996 and has built several homes in the
Sylacauga area.
The church donates supplies and
members volunteer at the Care House in Sylacauga, a
joint venture with other area churches. The Care House
provides food and clothing for those in need. Church
members also volunteer in delivering Meals on Wheels
five days a week. To learn more about the church’s
mission or to volunteer, click
here.
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Trinity UMC:
Trinity has an
outreach food ministry,
Heart to Heart.
Church distributes food to persons
in need on second and fourth Thursday of each month.
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Wadley First UMC:
Wadley First supplies and provides a "Community Food
Bank" for persons in need of food in the Wadley
community and beyond. The food bank is open on the 2nd
Wednesday of each month. The community food bank is made
possible in conjunction with the
East Alabama Food Bank.
The church recently began a program
to help with the rehabilitation of released inmates into
the community.
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Wedowee First UMC:
Wedowee First UMC has a Handy
Hands and other programs.
Handy Hands is a group of volunteers
able to do minor repairs, including ramps to make homes
handicap accessible.
Church members participate in
alleviating hunger through the
Society
of Saint Andrew (SOSA)
organization. Volunteers glean cabbage and other produce
for SOSA to distribute.
Click
here
for more on
Wedowee First ministries.
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Wesley Chapel :
Wesley Chapel is one of the Sylacauga
Churches giving supplies and sending volunteers
regularly to the Care House in Sylacauga.
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These are some of the churches and
highlight of some of the local ministries. Local
Ministry is just one aspect of our work mission and
outreach as the churches seek to minister to the
spiritual and physical needs of the people of God in
church and community.
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