The Outreach Program

 

Once a month, the Commission sponsors “Muffins for Mission.” and sells delicious bran muffins during Coffee Hour. All income goes directly to mission programs.

Once a month a group from the church takes a lasagna dinner with salad and dessert into Rosie’s Place, a woman’s shelter in Boston. The Commission also recruits people to make and serve meals once a month at Turning Point, a local Men’s shelter in Framingham. At Christmas the church provide gifts to children in local shelters.

The church addresses Global Needs through supporting a missionary in the Congo, Africa. They have a Family-to Family sponsorship program where people from the church sponsor a needy individual or student in Dominica and help with the preschool and school lunch program. The church also contributes to Disaster Relief, Heifer Project International, and organizations dealing with world hunger.

Locally and regionally, the church supports United Methodist Urban Services, Community Change, Habitat for Humanity, Maine Economic Ministry, Parmenter Health Center, Pathways Family Shelter, Sudbury Food Pantry, and other organizations.

The Outreach Commission helps to support the work teams the church sends out. Each year the youth go on a work team. In 2005, they went to Dominica to build a playground; in 2006, to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota to repair homes and in 2007 to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors project of the Down East Maine Missions in East Machais, Maine to roof and paint homes and build a handicap ramp.

 
 
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