MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
Back to School Supplies
CERF
Greeting Card Ministry
Honduras- BMDMI- Larry & Lora Team
Honduras- Ryan Team
Let’s Wrap
Meals on Wheels
Quarters For Missions- Barte Family
Relay For Life
Senior Adult Ministry Missions
Smart Kids, Smart Lunches
Thanksgiving Meals
UMW
Young Adult Missions
VOLUNTEERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT JACKSON UNITED METHODIST
SHORT-TERM MISSION OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND
C.E.R.F.; LET'S WRAP; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; HONDURAS MISSIONS; INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH; STOP HUNGER NOW; YOUTH MISSIONS & SERVICE; ATLANTA FOOD BANK; SCOUTING SUPPORT; THANKSGIVING MEAL DELIVERIES; MEALS ON WHEELS; and SO MUCH MORE
Mission Committee Risk-Taking Missions and Service
Missions are an on-going ever changing service. The following is an attempt to share some of the work being done right now. These services will continue to change as the needs of our community change. Volunteers are always needed. Please, if you feel you are being lead to work in a particular area, the contact person is always open for help.
Children’s Missions – Contact Theresa Hobbs
The children's ministry does the shoebox ministry at Christmas: Operation Christmas Child. We also do Vacation Bible School every June.
Youth Missions – Contact Debbie Bell
Smart Lunch/Smart Kids – Contact Jean Dodson or Lucia Fletcher
ACTION MINISTRIES– SMART LUNCH SMART KIDS One new requirement from Action Ministries; if you are delivering meals and/or having contact with the kids, you must have a background check done by Action Ministries. See link at the botton of page.
If you are just making lunches and will not have contact with the kids or will not be delivering meals, you do not have to do the background check. Our immediate needs: volunteers, monetary donations, individual bags of chips, fruit cups, grape jelly, and water bottles.
Let’s Wrap – Contact Stephanie Owens and Pam Stevenson
The Let’s Wrap coat project is the primary initiative of the Community Involvement Committee at Jackson United Methodist Church. The Committee was formed in May of 2008. It is Co-Chaired by Susanne Earnhart and Pam Browning. Let’s Wrap is a program where much needed coats are provided to children in the Butts County school system from Pre-K through the 5th grades. It also includes children in the McIntosh Trail Head Start program. With the help of volunteers, donations and grants we have been able to provide coats to all children in need as of this date.
The school system identifies those children that would benefit from new coats and gloves and gives us the names, gender and sizes so that we can purchase the coats. We try to make this a special experience for those children that participate. The school system allows us to set up a Let’s Wrap Store in each of the three schools. The coats are displayed by boy or girl and size on clothes racks and the children are allowed to come and shop.
“Community Involvement” means that we could not continue with this program without help from volunteers and ongoing donations from individuals, church and civic groups, and foundations. This is an ongoing mission effort and cannot be completed without donations being made to the program throughout the year. We try to have our children identified and coats purchased and distributed by the end of October or first of November at the beginning of each school year. We started in 2008 with about 8 volunteers and this year we had between 15 and 20 volunteers from the community to help organize, purchase coats and work in the “store”.
School Needs – Contact Sherry Reynolds
Our congregation is involved with the Butts County School System to help whenever needed. During the summer we collect designated school supplies. One Saturday is chosen right before school starts to meet with other churches and county organizations. As children come, they are given a new back pack and we fill the packs with the donated supplies.
We also collect individually packaged food items to donate to the “Back Pack Weekend Food” program. The county social worker became aware of several students who had nothing to eat during the days away from school. Our donations are discretely placed in the back packs on Friday afternoons so these children will have food they are able to open and use during the weekends and long holidays.
We continue to keep in contact with the school social worker (Susan Sarsany) to learn of new school needs we may be able to meet.
Men's Club – Contact Wayne Walters, Charles Polk, or Bob Kaylor
Mission Statement:
Our mission is as follows: To be a spiritual organization of men who assist our church in accomplishing our collective goals, and to assist our community as needed.
Some of our goals this year are as follows:
*Assume church work projects such as updating our parsonage.
*Involve our youth as appropriate
*Take on fund raisers to help fund our activities
*Organize church wide activities for fun and team building
*Involve more men in our group.
CERF – Contact Al Jordan
Christian Emergency Relief Foundation is able to help meet the needs of our community through the support of churches, grants, individual and foundation donations of money and clothing, and especially with the work of friendly and compassionate volunteers.
CERF sees to the needs of clients thru:
*phone calls
*private appointments on Thursdays (Clients are interviewed to assess needs)
*Clothes Boutique - which is open on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month (Volunteers also work the first and third Wednesday to size and arrange the clothing in boutique fashion). Clients may choose clothing at no cost. (There is a limit on the number of items that can be taken each time the client comes in).
*Food pantry – Basic boxes of nutritional food are assembled by volunteers and given out. These foods can sustain a family for several days.
*Counseling – This area is being establish now. Ben Wright will be meeting clients on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm in the CERF House prayer room.
Quarters for Missions – Contact Susan Ryan
Quarters for Mission program uses loose change in the offering plates and chancel railings to support our UM Global Board of Missions family in their full time missionary positions in Southeast Asia. Donations can also be made directly to Quarters for Missions.
Meals on Wheels – Contact Hazel Newman
Members of JUMC participate in the “Meals on Wheels” program of Butts County operated from the Senior Center of the Recreation Department. Members deliver meals to citizens signed up for meals Mondays and Thursdays of each month. These meals are prepared in the kitchen of the Senior Center and ready to be picked up by 10:15 a.m. The teams of two sign off, pick up the food and delivery list. We are now delivering 16 meals to different addresses. The route is about 20 miles and can be completed in 2 hours or less. 770 775-7714
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