So that individual lives may be changed, the members of
the Mequon United Methodist Methodist Church contribute both personal time and
dollars to missions in our community, state, nation and world. Outreach projects
reach near and far with contributions being sent to areas of specific need. Ongoing
projects include: Habitat
for Humanity, Blanket Sunday, Missionary
Project, Bread Sunday, Meal
Site, Transitional
Living Center, One Great
Hour of Sharing, Thanksgiving
Food Boxes, CROP Walk, Meals
on Wheels, Volunteers in
Mission, Clothing and
Food Donations, and UMCOR.
Volunteers give witness to the Christian gospel as
they work with other congregations, college students, business persons and potential
homeowners rehabilitating modest inner city homes. The aim is to create an
environment of hope and dignity and to allow qualified homeowners to purchase these homes
after meeting the required hours of "sweat equity".
Blanket Sunday is held just before Valentine's
Day. It is an effort to buy blankets for needy persons resulting from disasters,
civil unrest or wherever there is a need. A five dollar donation provides a blanket
and the manufacturing jobs for people in needy countries.
The congregation helps support our missionary,
Gordan Graner and the Thiu Rancho Project of the Evangelical Methodist Church in
Cochabamba, Bolivia. The project is an agricultural production and training center
as well as a Christian retreat center with the Bolivian United Methodist Church.
Gordan is married to Ardell Olson Graner, also a United Methodist missionary in Bolivia,
and they have three children, Jenny, Samuel and Hannah.
Bread and bread products baked by the congregation
are donated and then sold to raise funds for the hungry and poor. CROP WALK and
Second harvesters have received donations from our Bread Sunday.
MUMC supports an inner city meal program by sending
servers, desserts, milk and a monetary donation. our date is the fourth Tuesday of
the odd months. Between 150 and 300 people are fed at the St. Francis Meal Site each
evening.
Providing for the rehabilitation of safe, affordable
apartments for low-income, single families as they work to become self-sufficient.
Our commitment is for workers and a donation for building materials.
This program is our opportunity to support the
efforts of UMCOR. The United Methodist Committee on Relief is usually the first to
arrive at a major disaster and the last to leave. Our donations to UMCOR support the
administrative efforts and allow 100% of donations to go to specified projects.
The Outreach Committee, in conjunction with the
Sunday School Classes, collects food for a Thanksgiving Dinner for those who are in
need. Funds from the Auction are used to purchase turkeys for the food baskets.
This ecumenical effort raises awareness and support
for the hungry and poor. Members of area churches walk on a Sunday in October and
are sponsored by friends, relatives and members of our congregation. Join the walk
with your children.
Prepared meals are delivered to elderly and
housebound Mequon and Thiensville residents by volunteers on the second and fourth Monday
on the month in conjunction with the Ozaukee County Aging Services Department.
Individuals from our congregation travel within the
United States and to foreign countries as part of a United Methodist group to participate
in construction, renovation and refurbishment projects. Past projects have included
building churches, homes for the elderly and repairing storm damaged homes.
Each year a group of deserving people is selected to
received gifts from our congregation. This project is one of the most rewarding
during the year. Early in December, name are available to select for gifts.
Donations are collected and distributed to several
churches and Christian organizations in the inner city. Donations can be brought to
church and deposited in the clothing barrels located outside the fellowship hall.
Food donations can be placed on the shelf inside the front door of the church.
UMCOR is the global and local arm of the United
Methodist Church that offers emergency relief, relocation of refugees, rebuilding lives
and long term solutions to the problems of hungry and poverty. UMCOR is active in
more than 70 countries and has impacted the loves of 16 million people. 100% of your
donation to UMCOR is used for solutions to the world's needy. For more information,
contact UMCOR at their hotline
(1-800-841-1235).
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