Our
Church in Missions
First United Methodist
Church is committed to mission and provides numerous opportunities
for people to live out their faith and to reach out to those in need. Current needs include:
- Items for gifts: Do you have
items to " regift"? If so, Support Ministries can use
them as birthday gifts and as incentive prizes for their residents.
Almost any new item will be suitable for someone. A bin for such
gift items is located at the top of the stairs in the Sunday School
wing. For more information, contact Laurie Munro at 937-1915.
- Support Ministries: Needs yarn (or fine crochet thread) for a special project. They also continue to need buttons of any size, shape or color. There is a container for the buttons and a box for the thread next to the Nursery on the second floor. Questions? Contact Laurie Munro, 937-1915.
- The Albany United Methodist Society will be operating a summer camp program for inner-city children that will begin at the end of the school year. The following items have been requested. Note that some items must be new, while others can be new or “gently used”. A collection box is located in our FUMC office hallway, for any items you wish to donate. Your generosity would be much appreciated.
- NEW ITEMS: glue sticks and paste, children's paint brushes, popsicle sticks, coloring books, tempera paint (primary colors), beads, pipe cleaners, spools of lanyard string, white foam board (poster size), white poster board.
- NEW or GENTLY USED ITEMS: badminton sets, puzzles (for ages 6-13), measuring cups (dry and liquid), rolling pins, baking pans and cookie sheets, kitchen knives, mixing bowls and spoons, electric can opener.
Our overall mission ministries include:
Albany
United Methodist Society
AUMS is a ministry serving inner-city Albany. We collect groceries,
provide drivers and tutors, and supply preschool lunches.
Interfaith
Partnership for the Homeless
Interfaith provides shelter and support services in inner-city Albany.
We assist with hot meals on Sunday evenings and provide bed linens
and clothing. Our children assemble "Love Kits" and they
participate in the "Pennies for Haven" fund drive.
Habitat
for Humanity
We help finance and build houses.
Volunteers
in Mission
Our volunteers have erected windmills and rebuilt a clinic in Mozambique.
They also rebuilt a church in Gay's Hill, Georgia.
Missionary
Support
We help support programs of missionaries in the Bronx and on a reservation
in Oklahoma.
Refugee
Resettlement
We're actively involved in sponsoring several refugee families in
the Capital Region.
There's a role
for everyone, with many more opportunities to reach out in mission.
There's so much to do, from simple tasks to major projects. Join
us as we strive to help make this world a better place!
this ministry provides numerous opportunities to exercise our faith by reaching out to those in need. People who need our help are all around, close to home and halfway around the globe. There are far more needs than we can possibly meet so we choose to help where the need is the greatest and most urgent. There are many ways to participate in the Mission Ministry and some of the programs we are involved with are listed below. Let's work to make this world a better place!
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